The Versace Murder

I just finished watching this on late night television and I am in awe. I mean, I have seen a few TV movies in my day, but this one almost comes across like a bad satire of TV movies. It is bad in just about every way imaginable.

The music is pretentious, the editing bears the mark of a first year film student, and the acting is horrifyingly bad. At some points this movie heads off following Andrew Cunanan in aimless directionless scenes. It has the characters fighting in swearing fits that come off like children learning the "f-word" for the first time. And every scene, particularly those with the actor playing Andrew Cunanan are stretched out with the most appalling acting I have ever seen. I mean it. Every single line of dialogue is delivered almost painfully. The most excruciating example is the scene at the very end when the two FBI agents have this really presumptuous and pretentious theory session on murder and consumerism. It was truly "crap-tacular".

This movie is a complete waste of time, and unintentionally turns a horrifying true-life story into a sloppy farce. Worse still, I got this impression the film makers were vastly overestimating the importance of this movie in their own minds. This comes off with endless scenes with the various characters where they spout speeches thinly veiled single entendres about their motivations and society. I get the impression the film makers even wanted to make a connection between the glitz and glamour of the fashion world and how it drove Cunanan to kill - except that no viewer is going to buy that the way it is presented here.

If I were Donatelli Versace, I would sue on principle alone just to end TV movies of mediocre quality.

This horrible piece of tripe contains so many bad actors, they were tripping over one another to deliver their incredibly-poorly written dialogue.

The acting was wooden, the directing haphazard and the script, well the script, should have been burned, along with the writing team.

To have subjected the tragedy of Versace's death to such an amateurish version of Andrew Cunanan's last few weeks was a travesty. If I were an actor in this movie I would change my name...quckly! Either that or try to expunge this film from my filmography.

The premise was fine...the truth of Cunanan, a self-important model-wanna-be who uses rage, whether it's gay rage or just rage itself, to slowly take over his life, and then to finally kill four people leading up to his coup de grace, the assassination of Versace, the uber-designer who slighted him by not choosing him as a model.

I would like to see this tragic story portrayed by a writing team, director and cast who actually are professionals, maybe they would be able to pull off a good film...but this group...not a chance!

I picked up the Versache Murder DVD at Big Lots for $3.50... since my wife is a fan of cheesy TV docudramas and true crime books, it seemed perfect, and it was indeed worth every penny.

The acting is on par with your average high school drama class production, the plot is almost nonsensical, and the music was... well, nonexistent.

I've seen other people comment on the cheesy synth music of this film, but the DVD I bought has no music at all! This leads to numerous bizarre scenes where Andrew is dancing around getting dressed in the morning to silence, roller-blading to silence, dancing in a club to silence... and there is no sound at all during the credits. At first, I thought the director was just being "artsy", but now I know that it was some kind of mistake, but it makes this awful movie even worse, if that's possible.

It's the kind of movie you'll watch time and again because it's JUST SO BAD!

This is a great movie! I am in awe! I've read all the reviews and I expected something like that. But reviewers without humour. I just love the style of the director. I can recognize it in the great actionmovies I saw as a kid "Enter the Ninja" and "Delta Force". There's some real humanity in this sort of acting and directing. Of course, the movie should get a low grade because of this Ed Woodish quality but the viewing experience is just awesome. I was laughing really hard. I say that those who don't like this movie does not have any sense of humour. I must say I am impressed. If only all movies where like this the world would be a better place. This movie is good because it does not PRETEND. It is "itself" so to speak. I'd like to see more movies by this director. 5/10.

I'm very sorry, but this is one weak movie... The actors are really unconvincing, the soundtrack reminds me of a porn movie and the lines the actors have to say are of the level of a soap opera... Don't bother