McVeigh

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.

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.

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.

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.