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The Minus Man is a movie unlike any other. It's a rare thing for me to say that I have watched something unique, as I've seen over 4000 films in my life, but this is truly it. This is a serial killer movie that goes totally against genre expectations. It's not even a thriller in any sense. It's a hangout drama where Vann, played by Owen Wilson, tries to build his life in a new town he's moved to whilst occasionally giving in to his murderous urges.

I was thoroughly engaged in the off-kilter nature of Minus Man. It felt so weird to follow this man living his life, whilst slightly rooting for him at times to succeed, as the film had me in a lull that made me often forget that Vann is a monster. It plays like such a normal indie drama at times that a murder had to occur for me to remember that I am watching a film about a serial killer. Owen Wilson's performance was very good. He bought his usual charm, which helped make Vann so relatable. It made me contemplate how there might be many people like that, hiding in plain sight within our supposedly structured society whilst we are oblivious to their true nature. Overall, it's certainly a film I won't forget, and I would recommend this as it's rare to get something so unconcerned with being commercially viable and instead going with its own flow against the grain whilst making the audience ponder the nature of evil and how it presents itself within society.