McVeigh

Seen this and was stoked. With a good cast but man it was slow as molasses. And I understand slow burns and what not but the writing was just atrocious. That may be too much or too harsh because I've seen way worse but it just seemed that the writing was minimal to say the least. Long drawn out scenes trying to build tension but it just didn't work. Felt bad for the actors a few times because they are all good. Bummer. Six out of ten still because I watched it all.....barely.

Tracey Letts always is good and was able to lead his role, even though it was from a seat the majority of the time. Tough not too see ole Game of Thrones in Alfie.

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.

Was really hoping this was cut from the same script-pages as Tony Stone's exceptional "Ted K" (2021), but make no mistake, this is the Lifetime Channel Presents or Edward James Olmos (á la AMERICAN ME) version of the Oklahoma City Bombing and its principal architect. Totally controversy-free, favoring theatrics and creator's liberties (w source material) with the goal of producing conventional, feature-length bio-pic. DNF.

Found out the guy who directed this is seemingly a DailyWire MAGA type which checks out because it's hard to see what actually drew this guy to this story given how little he has to say about it. Weirdly Brett Gelman probably the most compelling presence here which is crazy because he's an unbearable POS (unanimously).

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.