Trophy Wife: Murder on Safari

Look...leave your artsy fartsy film making for something other than a DOCUMENTARY. Ridiculous. I need facts and a sensible timeline. Jump cuts, gratuitous big game deaths, odd year, month count down and up is as confusing as this review. Yes, wild animals are fascination but this is not National Geographic or the Nature channel. A disclaimer is imperative .

I've watched a lot of true crime, and this is one of the rare ones that is so bad, I stopped watching halfway through episode 1. The pacing is painfully slow, the music choice is bizarre (obviously picked to sound stereotypically "exotic" by people who don't know anything about Africa), and it sometimes drowns out the voices. The timeline jumps back and forth at random, they include the cringey B-roll and unrelated corny pop culture clips, and more. Did they really need to repeat 10 times in 20 minutes how much this guy loves hunting? Waste of time.

As an avid true crime show viewer it's rare that I find one I genuinely don't like, but the director and the (annoying, distracting) sound person stepped up to the plate and whiffed big time here.

This was a slog to get through but I watched it all. After doing so, I wish I had that time back. The direction was horrible-- randomly jumping around in time for no reason and taking until the midpoint of the three episodes before the actual murder is detailed (and even then, it's almost a footnote in this strangely directed monstrosity).

Even worse was the noisetrack (soundtrack would be overly generous here), which was distracting and annoying at every turn. Seriously, it's as though the sound person had gotten a a big box of random sound effects from Temu and wanted to find a way to insert every single one of them into the three episodes. As bad as the direction was, the noisetrack was still worse.

I'm enough of a buff I could have watched three well done episodes on this case and maybe even have wanted more. But in this case, I should have turned it off after 20 minutes like I wanted to.

Don't waste your time.

Well done doc, but could've been 2 episodes not 3. Everyone is cartoon villain level evil. Just abysmal. Main dude is a dentist and big game hunter, his dental assistant lady says they were doing root canals people didn't need on nearly everyone. She should be in literal jail. He should be in H***. His wife was a big game hunter too. And they all ran in an evil (conservative) circle. May they all have the days they deserve. Genuinely hard to watch.

This was an OK watch. Some of it was pretty strange - like the one gentleman dancing before they interviewed him. Definitely was over the top in some areas. They're always over sensationalized or no one would bother watching. I mostly watched because I live right by the dental practices that Dr. Rudolph ran - so out of curiosity. I recall seeing his commercials years ago.