Amanda Knox

The story of a young girl murdered and this journalist shows zero compassion! I wonder if he'd show so much excitement scooping a top story of his mother/sister being tortured and murdered! I can't imagine how distraught her family would be listening to him talking about the murder like it's an exciting new story for the world to enjoy. He boasts about being the first to report her autopsy results as " better than sex"! While laughing his head off! Unbelievable. His family must be ashamed of him. He is the scummiest of the scummy journalists. I hope he rethinks his actions and apologises to her family.

I've read a number of negative reviews, all because they don't agree with the verdict and therefore the documentary didn't give them the answers they wanted to hear. Quite a few of the 1/10 and 2/10 reviews on here should be taken with a pinch of salt for that reason.

Firstly this isn't a documentary that will go on to become a classic, neither will be on a must see documentary list in 10 years time. It does focus on two very important aspects, flaws in the police investigation and also the media involvement with often sensationalist reporting. It shows how the legal system can almost breakdown when policing and reporting isn't done to a high standard. It's not just a matter of "who done it" anymore.

The documentary does a great job of portraying the police opinion from the outset, that Amanda Knox was guilty, even before they had evidence. The second aspect of this is the DNA evidence and how it impacted the verdicts and acquittals. It gives a real insight into why DNA evidence can fall apart. It reminded me a little of making a murderer for this reason and the case focus on DNA.

The media coverage and commentary by the Daily Mail journalist was also really interesting. Throughout it demonstrated just how important their sensational headlines changed public opinion of the case.

The documentary itself does a fine job of presenting the evidence. The issue is how it follows Knox and at times becomes a soapbox for her fame. I think it could have been a little more tasteful when interviewing her, maybe giving her less screen time was the answer.

Overall a great watch for anyone who loves crime documentaries. It shows how policing efficiency and the media in today's world can transform cases.

If you're looking for a piece of media to clear the confusing facts for you - this is not it.

The documentary is clearly very biased towards Amanda, making her the sole focus of the documentary and not the case - I am aware that it is titled after her name and therefore about her, but I feel the documentary unjustly shifted the focus of finding the truth from the case to a more "we're trying to prove she's innocent" film.

Would recommend to anyone looking for a good entertainment documentary, but in my opinion it does nothing but feed into the idea that Knox is innocent and absolves her of any involvement within the crime, feeding in to her dramatics.

It is very clear that the police wanted to solve the case quickly and the disgusting British press put all the wood in the fire as possible. Who says she's a liar has gone through something similar to know what her reaction would be like? Easy to judge, hard to be on the other side being judged by cretins who believe everything they read in tabloids.

Wow I am blown away by how bad this entire investigation was handled and how poor of a job that the investigator did by having blinders on and only looking at this "sex crazed woman" who he thinks that she raped and killed her roommate and somehow talked two men into taking part in the murder and then to have this "journalist" turn around and say how bad the cops screwed up the case only after he had personally wrote these sensationalized stories about Mrs Knox's sex life which even if he didn't mean to, his stories absolutely did sway the public's view as to her guilt even before the trial started.. I've read a few reviews saying that this is the Amanda Knox propaganda machine at work which might be true but from what I've seen there is no evidence pointing to Knox being guilty and had the detective spent less time focusing on her sex life and more time finding clues the day of the crime and not 46 days later (finding the bra strap) then we might have never even heard of the Amanda Knox murder trial.. One thing I've noticed about detectives and DA's is that whenever their found to have been chasing the wrong person they're never the type to offer an apology to the wrongly accused and unfortunately sometimes it's the wrongly convicted.. Thank God this wasn't one of those 20+ years later the truth comes out but even a day behind bars for an innocent person has to be hard and being wrongly convicted would really really suck..