Fit for Murder

I didn't know about the real-life events that inspired this movie before today, but I liked the movie. I rarely sit through an entire Lifetime movie till the end because they are usually predictable, but this was a good movie, and I sat through it in one sitting. I had other things to do tonight but I couldn't tear myself away. I had to see how it ended. I thought the acting by everyone was spot on. Especially the wife - her acting was excellent. I get tired of seeing actresses do a crying scene, yet they have no tears in their eyes. Who cries without tears? This actress actually had tears in her eyes during the crying scenes. I believed it. She was good. All the actors and actresses did a great job. Thanks, Lifetime, for finally having a movie worth watching all the way through. I'm reading a Murder She Wrote book at the moment with the same title, Fit for Murder.

I'm not entirely sure what this movie was going for. Since it's based on a true story, the title isn't necessarily a spoiler but is everyone who's gonna watch this really gonna know about this? The way the narrative is structured definitely makes it feel like the title is a spoiler. The film doesn't really know what pov it wants to take. Since a lot of the actual story is kind of like the accounts from people involved that all don't exactly go together, it could've been used smartly in the movie. But the writers just didn't know what to do with it. It tries to be the cliched TV crime movie but even fails at that. There's an attempt at showing everyone as grey but it just comes off as very confused about what to show. And it just feels like victim blaming at times. Still, the movie was able to create some intrigue towards the story and the real incident. Anf Tory Trowbridge was fantastic as one of the main leads. It was also weird to see the real people involved as the bodybuilder couple in real life is just max jacked up and in here they're just maxed to the limit where they are super attractive. But that's kind of fine for a movie. But it really felt like this story could've been very interesting and deep instead of trying to be sleazy and even failing at that.

I love watching movies based on actual events and I've also seen a Brock in a couple other things. I don't think Brock or probably any of these people are bad actors but man the acting in this is terrible. It almost reminds me of the terrible acting in something like "the happening" by M night. The actor in that are good actors. In that movie they looked like D Movie shlubs. Most likely it's because of a horrible director. Everything is overacted and the story is all over the place. Nothing seems to really fit together. This movie could have been good if it was made by a better production company or idk something. I wouldn't even classify this as a B movie. Maybe a D movie.

"Fit for Murder" is a movie based on the real-life murder committed by bodybuilder Craig Titus. With these types movies based on fact I expected a degree of fictional license grounded in factual material. Unfortunately, this movie fails to deliver on all fronts. "Fit for Murder" delivers a superficial, simplistic recounting of events that MIGHT have resulted in a young woman's murder. The problem is the thin narrative seems culled from online articles and Wikipedia. The characters lack depth, sincerity and personality. The circumstances leading to the murder are muddled and fail to engage the audience.

Brock Yurich in the role of Titus, performs ably given what little he had to work with. It's encouraging that I found his performance less wooden than it was in Tyler Perry's soap opera "The Haves and Have Nots." Acting chops aside, Yurich is, like most bodybuilders with an itch to parlay their skills into an acting career, still leading with his muscular physique and hoping talent will follow. His casting is also notable in that Yurich may be among the few gay American actors allowed to play straight men with a degree of credibility.

"Fit for Murder" is really for for nothing.

A friend who knows I enjoy Max Riemelt in his accomplished films, told me he had an American equal and to watch Fit for Murder & Boxer Butterfly. I did. He was right. The lead, Brock Yurich, does a great job with a limited script bringing character to a role that would limit many others. Sincere, believable, credible in both films. Depth & development of the character gets the films a very long way and Yurich's talent to use his body, his facial expressions, his voice and vary their use fills out both characters in films that, without it, would seem shallow. In the Fit film, you literally see the anguish in his entire body as the anger leads to unintended violence. And it's believable. Small gestures. Nuanced body moves. He's never out of character -it all fits. I'd like to see Yurich paired up with equally talented actors; the product, with the right direction, would be fantastic.