McVeigh

I found this movie McVeigh boring,it was similar to the recent September 5 movie where we don't get to know any of the characters in the story in this case the innocent people ,what they were doing before this guy decided to kill and change everyone's life affected by McVeigh's actions forever. One reviewer said there was no judgement, and sometimes that is a good thing ,but not in this case especially in the heated political times we live in with all the hate in our country right now in 2025,it would have been nice to get a deeper understanding why he did this, of course we know the story, it was about Waco, In the film, it's there but it's vague, shown a few times on TV news footage ,the story should have been told as if none of us know the details from the actual event, and perhaps sending out a warning doing bad things even when you think you're making some good political statement, has consequences...innocent people died including children for McVeigh's political statement. The movie did show, this guy had a black heart ,no emotions,just a waste of a human life,it did show how he got the supplies to make his bomb, but that's where the movie stops, in fact the movie basically ends McVeigh driving off in his rent a moving truck, and then we see some real TV footage of McVeighs domestic terror act....but again the story would have been better if it was a re-enactment of the event as if i knew nothing of the event, where did he park the truck, how did he set it off,etc.what did he do after the event, did he go home and have a beer? His arrest and perhaps even his execution...for me it was just a boring movie, the guy was emotionless ,heartless which i am sure probably in real life he was but that left for a boring movie.

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.

Appropriately bleak & cold true-tale "McVeigh" chronicles the months prior to domestic terrorist Timothy McVeigh (Alfie Allen) killing 167 folk (inc 19 children) in the cowardly 1995 truck-bombing of an Oklahoma Federal Govt building. Co-writer (with first-timer Alex Gioulakis) / director Mike Ott evokes decent foreboding as McVeigh & accomplice Terry Nichols (Brett Gelman) build their bomb with no apparent direct support or direction from the wider neo-nazi community represented by Tracy Letts & Anthony Carrigan - tho Ott does ambiguously hint at that possibility. Well performed & well made, it still leaves the feeling that this awful story has more layers to it that are yet to be told.

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.

This movie was marketed as a "psychological thriller", yet there was nothing "psychological" or "thrilling" about it.

The film did very little to explain McVeigh and Nichols' backstory, and show us who they were and what they believed. Instead, it stumbles along from scene to scene, almost like they made things up as they went along. And then it just ends.

Overall I found the movie unengaging, uninformative, and boring. It was a half-assed hollow shell of what it should have been. Makes you think they were trying to be "first" instead of "best"

I did think that Anthony Carrigan's performance of Andreas Strassmeir was very good. Too bad the writers couldn't do a better job of telling the whole story, though.