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The highlight of the series is Richard Jenkins, playing the conflicted father who can't help loving his son no matter what dark deeds he has done. Other than that, things started off fine but slowly went downhill with more and more of the usual propaganda we get nowadays. What I found particularly irritating is a majority of the final few episodes features more and more of the supposed woman neighbour of Dahmer going through a lot of emotional "pain" and trauma, but she wasn't even a victim nor had any of her family or friends killed by Dahmer. What is this.. some kind of vicarious victimhood? Why spend so much time on her rather than on the actual victims' families who suffered real loss? I think this is very disrespectful and deserves to be roundly criticised.

Boring, draggy and overly convoluted. Tries too hard to be cool and flashy but fails miserably. Overflowing with cringe-inducing accents. I used to be a big fan of Korean thriller movies like Oldboy, The Chaser, A Hard Day but there are many others just like this one, which have no emotion, no suspense, cheap attempts at comedy and feel dragged out for no reason other than to pad out a thin plot. I seriously wonder how anyone can like this snoozefest of a mess. Also, I don't understand why IMDB requires a minimum 600-character review. As if wasting almost two hours on a bad movie isn't enough, we have to waste more time writing an overly-long negative review.

Excellent crime thriller drama. Yes, the characters could have been a bit more fleshed out, but overall the tone, directing, cinematography and acting were outstanding. Gordon Lam is seriously one of the most under-rated HK actors. After an alphabet soup of "Storm" movies starring the same-old same-old familiar actors in the lead, I had almost given up on HK cinema, but this gives me new hope.