Inspired by the events but the authors don't really know how the killers were thinking. It is still the important part. My take is that psychopathy is common in the US. That is why shooters are also common, relatively speaking.

perfect set up. done terribly, not exciting, no climax, fizzles out, feeble attempt, avoid all gore and action, continuity problems. .not good .rubbish .boring .unenjoyable .pointless .waste of time .meh .dont bother.........perfect set up. done terribly, not exciting, no climax, fizzles out, feeble attempt, avoid all gore and action, continuity problems. .not good .rubbish .boring .unenjoyable .pointless .waste of time .meh .dont bother........perfect set up. done terribly, not exciting, no climax, fizzles out, feeble attempt, avoid all gore and action, continuity problems. .not good .rubbish .boring .unenjoyable .pointless .waste of time .meh .dont bother.........perfect set up. done terribly, not exciting, no climax, fizzles out, feeble attempt, avoid all gore and action, continuity problems. .not good .rubbish .boring .unenjoyable .pointless .waste of time .meh .dont bother

A well shot, moodily scored and impressively acted indie from last year, Blue Caprice is also a frustratingly cold film that in the end misses the mark in such a way that you just can't help but wish you were more affected by a story that is all different types of sad and horrific in equal measure.Alexandre Moors film looks to delve into the events leading up to the tragic 2002 Beltway Sniper shootings around the USA that led to the deaths of 10 innocent civilians at the hands of John Muhammad and Lee Malvo. It must be noted that these events Moors displays in the film are largely dramatizations as facts concerning the two men remain sadly blurred. With the blurring of these facts and fictions the films growth as a narrative does suffer as what we are presented with is a strangely generic telling of a true story that is anything but. While moments in the film are at times extremely shocking and confronting they're merely short bursts of memorable material that quickly dissipates back to slow moving and uninvolving instances – these moments of quality are made increasingly more annoying due to the films many other affective sums not adding up to a satisfying whole.Seasoned actor Isaiah Washington has rarely, if ever, been better than he is here in a role that must of required quite a lot of mental and emotional stress on his behalf. The character of John is a role that features much pent up rage and at times evil that Washington cleverly plays to and is backed up by a very assured performance from young actor Tequan Richmond as his surrogate son Lee. Lee is a boy whose lot in life has left him scarily low choices to make and Richmond does a fine job at displaying this sad boy and also excels at the moments where a boy becomes more than that and becomes a monster. Sarah Neufeld and Colin Stetson's affective score must also be commended here as a haunting accompanying piece to a growing terror.A well-made movie yet undeniably cold and at times to distant for its own good Blue Caprice is an interesting look into an horrific situation that you get the feeling will one day be turned into a much bigger and affecting big screen treatment.3 combat handbooks out of 5 For more movie reviews and opinions check into - www.jordanandeddie.wordpress.com

The Beltway sniper attacks was one of the first mainstream news stories I remember quite vividly as a child (with September 11th excluded). I was six when they occurred and it was right around that time when I began to become interested in mimicking what my parents did. So, naturally, I'd sit in front of the TV with my dad at around six at night and watch the news. I remember hearing the words "sniper," "gas station," and "people shot" in the same news story and being absolutely petrified of gas stations from that moment on. I didn't know these shootings took place in Virginia, Maryland, and Washington D.C., not in Illinois where I had lived. I remember going to the grocery store with my mother one day and stopping for gas beforehand, right around the time when the snipers were on their killing spree. I was so petrified and paranoid that once we stopped at the pump for gas, I got on the floor of the backseat of my mother's Bonneville Pontiac and began crying and screaming, imploring my mother to come back inside the car and drive away. Garbled announcements on the loud-speaker at the local Speedway scared me even more, and I remember never being more scared in my life. I seriously felt as if I was going to die.Such memories came back while watching Alexandre Moors' directorial debut Blue Caprice, a film that, eleven years later, makes a commendable attempt to profile the two shooters behind the sniper attacks and show the brainwashing of a minor who happened to come into the presence of a dangerous man with a disregard for humanity. The dangerous man was named John Allen Muhammad, with the minor named Lee Boyd Malvo, both of whom were arrested and found guilty of committing random murders through the Virginia, Maryland, and Washington D.C. area using a sniper-rifle fired discretely from the trunk of their blue Chevrolet Caprice.It would seemingly be accurate to state that the public may need a pretty hefty reminder about this mass murder in America. What seemed to captivate us and rock our lives has now gone on to live in the shadows of obscurity, remembered by few. The outcome, or the killers for that matter, I believe, is a little known fact today and thankfully Moors has not only made a movie about the subject matter but a great movie about the subject matter, quite possibly earning the title of the best horror film of 2013.John is played by a fantastic Isaiah Washington, while Lee is portrayed by Tequan Richmond, an actor just a bit older than Malvo was during the time of the murders. We open by seeing the listless life of Lee, an abandoned soul picked up and cared for by a man named John, who will end up serving as the boy's father figure (to the point where he is actually referred to as "father" and "dad"). John has an agenda, a violent, soulless one. One that is predicated off of teaching random people a lesson.The film chronicles the Beltway sniper attacks from a psychological point of view. One that exhibits the cause-and-effect of Lee's transformation from a lost, impressionable child to a violent, and sick-minded individual. This point of view is a courageous one for first-time director Moors and first-time writer R.F.I. Porto. The film shows the way John picked up Lee at just the right time in his life, when he had no one, and gave him someone - a violent, deeply disturbed person with a frighteningly unpredictable agenda.There are issues, however, to Moors and Porto's portrayal of the shooters' actions. For one, we never quite get inside the head of John, learning his true motives or his actual thought-process behind what he believes. There doesn't seem to be a method to his madness. Perhaps this is because the two filmmakers didn't want to jump to conclusions on what the man was inherently thinking at the time, but if you're going to make a film depicting the events that happened before a devastating line of mass murders, you might as well try and offer a potential motive. Several have been tossed around in this case, from mental illness, to religious beliefs, etc, but like with most mass shootings and murders, there is never a fine conclusion.The other issue I see is a smaller one and that's the shooting sequences themselves. There is one we actually see from start to finish, involving the blue Caprice being parked in a department store parking lot with it's rear bumper facing the store. Lee ready to fire inside the trunk, looking through the scope with the sniper's end barely outside the hole in the trunk and John ready to speed away. We watch through Lee's scope, as he unsteadily moves the gun around, seeking his next victim, almost settling for a black man on a cigarette break before settling on a man in a beige suit with his back turned to the store. This scene is suspenseful and beautifully captured, only making one wish the last half of the film could've had more of a suspense focus.But when you see how intimate, careful, and lyrically staged everything else in Blue Caprice is, more and more of Moors' vision becomes clear and dominant over the lacking suspense aspects that, in the end, would be fine for another film. For the first film on a case that rocked three states and killed and injured many, this is a remarkably solid film, with great performances from Washington and Richmond and writing and directing that proves nothing but indicative of future potential. Using actor and filmmaker James Rolfe's analogy for something impossible, "if a blue moon occurs on Friday the 13th and all the planets align" this film will find a way in high school and college psychology courses.