Before seeing this film, I have seen a documentary about the cold blooded killer but I don't know much of him 100%. All I knew was that he hasn't known his real father and his mother was 16 when she had him. Also of course I knew he killed a lot of poor innocent young girls.However, after seeing this film, I have learned a lot of who he was as a person. I know Michael Reilly Burke isn't the real Ted Bundy but, he really did look like him in a killer style of form. He was honestly scary, lemme tell ya!I would probably freak out if I ever saw him on the street or even on films. Although I'm sure he is not like that but still, he played a risky character who was for real, a murderer!I honestly can say, this is a not bad horror/crime/biography film even if it was considered the worst movies to watch!

Ted Bundy is anything but a stranger to our screens; the fascination with this personification of evil, the man who became the first serial killer – in name if not in deed – knows no bounds, and certainly didn't for the daffy women who became his trial groupies. We see none of that here because his trials are glossed over, clearly something had to be in order to keep the film to a manageable length.Michael Reilly Burke puts in a convincing performance, and there are some graphic scenes, but arguably the two most memorable are where he kidnaps Carol DaRonch – called Tina Gabler here – and gets the worst of it from a young woman who fought like a tigress knowing full well that if she didn't escape his clutches then and there, she would not get out of that car alive. The other scene is where across a prison table his girlfriend finally sees him for the monster he is. Bundy's arrest for the DaRonch kidnapping should have been the end of his reign of evil; it beggars belief how such a clearly dangerous individual was permitted to escape not once but twice. The result was the sorority house murders and then his final victim – the youngest we can say for certain – 12 year old Kimberly Leach. She was given a "nom de plume" here, but her name slipped out in the archive footage at the end.There has been criticism of this film from other reviewers, but as with similar efforts, like the more recent "...Dirty Little Secret", the film-makers strived for authenticity and achieved it in some degree. It is our fault rather than theirs that so many of us consider serial murder to be entertainment.

First off, Michael Reilly Burke really pulls off a fine performance as the sick and twisted iconic American serial killer Theodore R. Bundy. Next, Matthew Bright goes for a colorful retro-seventies look and focuses mostly on the sheer brutality of his killings, leaving the background story of Bundy's youth in the shadows. This is the director's choice, giving way to a startling point of view: we ride along for his tour of death throughout America and that is pretty much it. Well, in the end we get to see him getting his comeuppance as well...In another way, this feels like a cautionary tale, especially considering the kids at the end saying 'I am Ted Bundy' (one of them holding a dead cat up to the camera). It is normal for children to be experimental and on the prowl for adventure, which often leads to misbehavior, but most of the time it does not escalate as it did with Bundy. He became thé American icon for evil, and still... he was a human being - and received about 200 love letters in jail!Bundy's 'accomplishments' are mind-boggling - it doesn't matter how ugly you want to portray them (I think one must). Even if you attribute some of it to luck, there is still a big part of his 'work' that leans heavily on sheer dedication, wit and persistence, there's no way around it.Unfortunately quite a few facts weren't correct (I must admit I don't know them all myself, and many facts are uncertain due to different statements by Bundy himself) and I would have liked the story to have started much earlier in Bundy's life ánd be more elaborate around the time it does begin, but 'Ted Bundy' does offer a visceral view of an almost unbelievable one-man rampage, leaving you with a few things to think about...8 out of 10.

THIS REVIEW MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS and MAY BE EDITED FOR LANGUAGE. MAY BE OFFENSIVE TO SOME READERS.I'm not going to put a lot into this review, but suffice it to say, that though I enjoyed FREEWAY by this director, I found this movie based on the horrific story of Ted Bundy far too violent with too much gratuitous nudity and lingering on violent rape scenes. If I was the family of one of his victims, I would feel like I'd been slapped in the face. The playing of some old R&B song over the countless rapes, murders and dumpings of bodies really offended me. We know Bundy was the epitome of a monster, a calculating and deceptive charmer who raped and murdered over and over again. Must we see scene after scene of him screaming, "F*CK YOU, BITCH!"over and over again?!The ending made me angry. I'm not saying it wasn't enormously gratifying to see Bundy get cotton stuffed up his arse or the guards treating his obvious fear with indifference and even scorn. The POS didn't deserve any kindness or mercy. He was never "sorry" about anything he did. He was only sorry he was caught. He was never remorseful about his crimes, only terrified at the end that now it was his turn to die. Why did the ending ultimately offend me? Because while his innocent victims were reduced to naked victims, suddenly Bundy was this "poor, scared guy" who was gonna die. Boo friggin hoo! While I'm sure Michael Reilly Burke is a good actor, he was miscast in this role. He looks nothing like the real Bundy, and honestly, he was given very little to do except act out the profanity of this script.Boti Bliss gave a pretty good performance, but she was just one in a supporting cast of clueless people in Bundy's social circle. Her comments at the end of the film, "Who was Ted Bundy?" were spoken with unconvincing dispassion. If I had let that freak touch me, I'd take a bath in bleach. She seemed very composed given the situation.I recommend THE DELIBERATE STRANGER instead. It tells the story without resorting to graphic gratuity.