McVeigh

Such a poorly made film. The writing and directing in particular are truly bad. Turns out the writer and director are the same clueless man. A Mr Ott. I hope Mr Ott has a day job. Perhaps it is true that morons like McVeigh have no friends, no personality and no prospects. Mindless cowards who find purpose in hate. Yet a movie about a dull witted, friendless, stupid man does not have to be the same. This film is really boring. We gain not one ounce of insight into McVeigh. He is on the phone to somebody. A lot. We never know who. The photography is as bad as the writing. Dull shots framed in dullness. It is hard to say about the actors. They were doing what they were paid to do, which is mostly nothing. It could have been a contender, to try and give the viewers some insight into this mindless and soulless act of murder and destruction, but that did not happen. If you are looking for even the tiniest shred of insight, it is not here. I watched this turkey so you don't have to. Give it a hard pass. You will have missed absolutely nothing. I only gave it a 3 because it is, in a small and sad way, at least an effort at understanding stupid, aimless and lost men like McVeigh. But F for effort.

This movie seems to weave a lot of fake into it's story-line... I can not find where McVeigh visited some Richard Snell in prison at all. That seems to be fabricated just like Tim's girlfriend "Cindy" in the story. Far as I can find, he didn't have a girlfriend (past High School days) and claimed to not know how to talk to them. Who was the Fredrick person ?

The dialog/script in the movie is wonky, like any gun person (especially a decorated top shooter in the army) would ever call a handgun magazine a "clip". Only Hollywood does that, certainly not a gun enthusiast that travels in gun circles and cherishes the 2nd Amendment.

How about the scene where the movie protrays Tim as upset over an encounter with a black fellow, and plots to shoot him... I can't find that in any fashion, the film seems to make up stuff as it goes along...

What we do know is Tim was a person that kept to himself for the most part and was laconic with others. This is portrayed excellently in the film and that he bombed a Federal building... that is about all this flick got right... We don't get to see him at Waco being part of the upset folks.

This movie is as much fiction as it is non-fiction, thus why I rate is so low... If you wanted to paint a picture, at least use crayons from the correct box to paint that picture.

Aside from the movie being drab and monotonous and extremely boring, there was nothing psychological or thrilling about this abysmal narrative of the most horrific act of domestic terrorism on US soil.

I'd say 90 percent of the movie was ficticious. McVeigh never visited or corresponded with white supremacist Snell. There was no Cindy character in his life. In fact he was a constant failure in finding a girlfriend in his life.

There is no indication of a Fredric character being real.

They needed to do a much better job than they did with this movie. To me McVeigh was depicted as a sad and lonely man. In fact I think the creator of this movie either purposefully or inadvertently cast a sympathetic shadow over McVeigh.

Absolutely an appalling job with this piece of junk.

They couldn't even bother making a dedication to all the victims of this horrible act of terror!

Very predictable. I knew how it would end before the title card.

OK, jokes aside, this movie was super flat. It left everything very 2 dimensional. Nothing felt really explored.

I remember these incidents, and honestly, I feel I could have written a better movie, with more insight into the events based solely off of my recollection of the news from the event when it happened.

It didn't really answer anything, and felt like it didn't even know what to ask. It was honestly boring, slow, and uninspired.

I didn't go into it with high expectations, but DID know there was a rich bit of storytelling to be had here. Instead, it was barely paint by numbers regurgitation of the story.

If a movie could actually be beyond boring, this would be it. Timothy McVeigh had to be more interesting than he is portrayed here because in this movie he barely exists. Alfie Allen was an extremely poor choice to play McVeigh because while he is given nothing at all to do on screen, he is too old to play McVeigh and looks nothing like him. The film is just a montage of trailers, dated wood paneling , seedy bars and diners. We learn nothing about McVeigh or anyone else. The entire movie is the lead up to the bombing but virtually nothing happens. For some reason a romance is thrown in that I don't think happened and Allen as McVeigh just seems to wander from place to place looking miserable, disturbed and suspicious. The movie is so poorly made I had no idea who the characters were suppose to be in real life. There is very little dialogue, and it seems as if they decided recreating a time period was enough. An awful film with zero redeeming qualities.