I watched the two of the earlier Dahmer movies and this one is the least murderous one. Ironically, this is supposed to be a serial killer movie, not a movie about a high-school kid's depressed life. However, it gives you the sense that somehow directors or the story writer intentionally excluded the murder scenes and focused more on the daily part of Dahmer's life for some reason. My favourite Dahmer movie named as "Dahmer" displayed many of Dahmer's murders and the other movie called "The Secret Life: Jeffrey Dahmer" also did that, even though it wasn't very convincing and at some parts of the movie, things made no sense. I expected this movie to be extremely graphic and disturbing, because i thought if the old ones were that explicit, This one should have been highly grotesque but highly convincing at the same time. The movie did not reach up to my expectations, because of two main reasons: The first one is that it focused too much on Dahmer's high-school years, which i think is unnecessary because not much happens during his school years and this makes the plot boring and uninteresting. The second one is that the plot was blurred at some parts of the movie. For instance, Jeffrey sleeps with the jogger&doctor's dead body and then the movie displays a dead body of a wild bear in a blurred way. Thus, the movie was filled with open-ended scenes, which as a whole seemed like an incomplete puzzle. However, I have to admit that the protagonist (Ross Lynch) did a great job on acting the role of Dahmer and the resemblance was very high. Hence, i would like to see more action and interesting, also exciting scene,s attributing to the high resemblance and good acting of Dahmer, which as a result would create a harmonious, complete and unique movie. I dare the directors to be more creative, eccentric and courageous for a movie based on the story of a real-life serial killer like this one.

As i started this film the very first thing that crossed my mind is that it played like a comedy. The characters came across as caricatures and it bothered me throughout the entire film. I don't understand what the point of this movie was. Some movies don't have to have a point; this one because it's about a time in the life of a very prolific serial murderer does. This film is based on the graphic novel and you can tell. The one thing i know this movie isnt and that is a look at the making of a serial killer. This movie starts with him being 14-15 and there was already the obsession and sexual arousal of dead things. I thought it was a complete dud.

This film may have been a decent thriller (mediocre at best with its conventional indie 70s period piece style) but it relies on one aspect of Dahmer's character to sell the film. This film's major theme is Dahmer's transformation into the psychopath we know due to his treatment by his friends as a class clown. This is untrue even within the film as he is already torturing animals at the beginning or at least dissecting them. It's either that or the film just wants you to look at how weird it is that a future serial killer is going to high school. "Did you know Jeffrey Dahmer went to prom?" It's empty and hollow and may have been something with better directing or a more complicated look at Dahmer who is shown here as your typical outcast. The drug dealer is portrayed as being more dangerous than Dahmer who reacts with a frightened expression to a gun going off despite wanting to kill several people in the film. The most interesting thing was them meeting the Vice President for like five seconds. If this film went into people who are obsessed with Dahmer after what he did and people who are into murderabilia that may have been something. But Alex Wolff in this film is not a character. There is nothing I can think of to say positively of the film. Visually it is as boring as it's story with competent lighting and competent shot composition but that just leads to a more boring product rather than something so bad it's good. I would rather watch Catwoman.

It was a side to dahmer I never seen I gave it a 6 because I feel like it didn't go deep enough to his family situation but it was interesting to see him in school and his daily life that way.