Murder on the Cape

WOWSERS, I just joined IMDB to review this, I can not beleive Netflix bought this piece of garbaaaage. You know how in movies sometimes an actor is actually portraying an actor, and they intentionally need to make their acting look bad and as if they are reading a script with the wrong inflections, etc. Well that's what this movie sounds like over and over again, as if the actors were trying to sound as if they were bad actors, like the are pissed at the producer for the horrible scripts and want to make this a flop. I almost wonder if this film is intentionally trying to be the biggest worst movie ever just so people will share it as the disaster it is, like Sharknado or something. The script and story line though, soooo bad.

I thoroughly enjoyed the well researched and insightful ABC News Podcast - A Killing on the Cape. (ABC News also produced a bit less enjoyable, less insightful two hour TV version)

This movie has a lot of moxie claiming to be based on a true story. Christa Worthington was murdered IRL and is the victim in this monstrosity of a movie but that's where the connection to the true story ends.

The acting is atrocious, the production pathetic and the writing (uh, where's my alliterative thesaurus?) just wrong ... My wife wisely gave up ten minutes in. But I was intrigued as to how many Elegis does it take to make a movie. Different folks with that surname were crammed into the credits or maybe the same folks wearing different hats.

The investigative podcast - A KILLING on the Cape - consisted of 7 episodes, each around 40 minutes. This allowed plenty of time to delve into the backgrounds of the main and tangential figures in the investigation.

MURDER on the Cape focuses exclusively on the relationship of Christa and the ex-fisherman and totally ignores almost all the elements of the real case. So not only is it bad, it's also disingenuous. And yes, as all the other reviews have pointed out, it's bad, really bad. Knowing much of the real story only makes it worse, much worse.

Finally, no disrespect to all the Elegis. They are probably fine people. Ms. Elegi used her own children in the move, IMDB notes. But maybe movie making isn't meant for them. Or at the very least, making movies based on real events.

I can´t believe this is actually a movie. First, the acting is so bad it hurts to watch. The main characters are not believable; Josh Walther has the looks but not the talent. There were instances were he was mumbling through his lines; it almost seemed like he was simply reading from the script. Jade Harlow was a different story. She seemed to worry about her lines and was not connecting at all with Josh. Finally the story... what happened to that fisherman collecting clams that suddenly was freezing to death?? what was the story behind the woman living by herself for 15 years and that neighbor? why did the sister in law sell Josh´s boat?? didn´t make sense at all.. to many facts and details of the story that were not coherent at all.

Please, take it off Netflix.

My mind began drifting immediately. The writing is abysmal. The structure is kind of random. Quite possibly has the least talented actors ever assembled. The sound track is so banal, yet overblown.

This is bad. It's just horrid.

Hey Crab Man. Hey Earl. These two sentences have more plot and are more exciting than anything you will see in this movie. Were it not for the fact that this is based on a true story and someone was actually killed it would be funny. The camera work was done by someone who seems to think that every shot must fill the frame with a face so close to the camera that you can actually smell the mediocrity. In one shot the director seems to have gone out of his way to fill whatever space was left around the actors bulbous face with a plain white background. You can imagine him shouting "A little more to the left! It doesnt work unless there is absolutely NOTHING behind him!" This does nothing to distract from riveting dialogue such as when the female victim tells her love interest "I want to see you again" to which he replies, "Alright" and leaves.

The best part of the whole movie was the drug peddling townie loser, who I hope to God was actually baked out of his mind to have spent this much energy on this piece of crap and that he no longer remembers making it.

I rated this two stars only because for the first 15 minutes I couldn't stop laughing at the poor production value of this made as a high school project movie. The other 75 minutes were like a prostate exam only without the feeling that you did something good for yourself when it was over.