Terrible script, plot, production! Pacino was used to make his followers think it would be a decent movie. It's time for him to quit, if he's willing to do this type of work!

Hangman: Directed by Johnny Martin and written by Michael Caissie and Charles HuttingerA serial killer enacting a live version of the kids game hangman and an overacting delirious and tired Al Pacino barely functioning in this dry, dull generic thriller. The whole hangman being a hook caught my attention mainly because it sounds like a parody of serial killer movies from the 90s. This aspect of the movie is handled gruesomely and pretty well. It is mostly inconsequential to the story as a whole. There is no reason for the killer to engage in this. It has no special meaning to the detectives or the killer. This is also played straight as can be. It needed that little bit of levity to take the piss out of the situation. The dialogue follows the standard cop movie. The detectives have a tragic backstory and even the reporter has a horrible backstory each one delivered with the plop of an anvil. It has an incredibly low score on Rotten Tomatoes and it was directed by the same person responsible for the god awful Vengeance A Love Story. This movie is a million times better than that disgusting movie. It's merely bland and cliche. Skip this one too. I give this one a D.

Ugh. where do i start? pretty average serial killer movie, where the killer leads the detectives from murder to murder with really obtuse clues that somehow are perfect every 24 hours. pacino acts the same way he does in every single fuggin movie he's ever been in. it barely kept my interest, really. i'd skip this one if you like thrillers. there are certainly much better titles out there to waste your 90 minutes of life on.

*Spoilers* I must admit ... tho I am a fairly big Karl Urban fan, I believe he AND Pacino were both just grabbing a paycheck here. The only decent acting job (besides the coroner), was turned in by Snow. We have a serial killer that, for some reason (made clear with about 10 minutes left in the movie), likes to play the children's game "Hangman". This guy find more elaborate ways to do away with each victim, as the movie progresses. Yet, the detectives (Urban and his retired buddy-detective Pacino, who he asks to take a look at a victim, then ends up staying on til the end), and their tag-along reporter friend Snow (who freely walks all over crime scenes and handles evidence), cannot seem to come up with a clue about what is going on. I'm surprised they figured out the cases were all "connected" in the first place. You knew something was up when, just over half-way thru, they think the serial killer has killed himself, and they send Snow home to rest ... yeah, nothing wrong with THAT move!). Sorry, but it's time for Pacino to hang 'em up. The hairstyles ment for 20 year olds and the very crappy make-up jobs cover up nothing anymore. And, his mumbling is getting terrible. Also, evidently, if you are gonna use Urban in a movie any time soon, please make sure you use vehicles big enough for him to climb in and out of, don't have him chasing 25 year olds in foot pursuit, AND, don't have him jumping on and off of sheds and fences over 3 feet high! If you decide to watch ... make sure it is either "free", or out of Redbox. Do NOT pay that ridiculous $11 PPV charge to see it (on a certain MEGA cable company). Then, you won't be so disappointed.