Menendez: Blood Brothers

This movie is horribly inaccurate, has bad acting and feels very rushed. This has a lot of misinformation they would add things or not include important things they said. They also had horrible interpretation of the characters. They made the parents seem nicer than they were. They also made it seem like the mom was just being treated horribly and like she was so kind to them. They even made Lyle seem like a bad guy who initiated the murder and for no reason. Erik was also made out to be this amazing person who did nothing, I love and support the brothers but Erik did play his part in killing the parents and everything after that and they tend to just blame Lyle in this movie. I would not recommend wasting your time. If you want to learn about the case it's on YouTube.

Loved this film so much. The writing and directing were truly powerful. I was both entertained and educated, this film brought a depth of perspective about the murder that was truly enlightening. It's the best TV movie I've ever seen. And Courtney Love and Myko Olivier were exceptional actors. Bravo Lifetime!

I was disappointed with this version of the movie as it was very cheesy. Courtney Love's character as the spirit of the murdered mom popping up to speak with her sons was so unnecessary. The made for TV series from 1994 is 100% way better: Menendez: A Killing in Beverly Hills with Edward James Olmos and Beverly D'Angelo.

Menendez: Blood Brothers is brilliant. I was obsessed with this case growing up. I love that this story gave us something to ponder, what if they were telling the truth? It raises so many questions.

The acting is stellar. Courtney Love is great but Myko Olivier is outstanding in his role as Erik.

Great script and incredible directing.

seek it out on iTunes.

Not the first TV-movie to cover the murders committed by Beverly Hills brothers Lyle and Erik Menendez in 1989--and likely not to be the last. Back from a break in his schedule at Princeton, older brother Lyle learns that Erik is still being sexually molested by their father, entertainment businessman Jose Menendez, after many years, as Lyle had been. With mom "Kitty" looking the other way, afraid of rocking the boat--and a discovery of rifles in Dad's study--Lyle is convinced that Jose is trying to kill his sons and that he and Erik need to act first. For a Lifetime movie, the frank, detailed trial dialogue of molestation is surprising, as is the slant writer Abdi Nazemian takes: he seems in favor of Lyle and Erik being exonerated (half the jury members presiding over their first trial, eventually a hung jury, are even shown to be a bunch of ill-educated homophobes). Nazemian even comes up with a fruity plot conceit: having the ghost of Kitty Menendez frequently visiting Erik in his jail cell--even forgiving him and encouraging his pen-pal romance with a female admirer! However much of this is fact or fiction doesn't really matter, as the movie is strictly a time-filler for the curious. That said, Benito Martinez and Courtney Love are excellent as Jose and Kitty (Love even makes her ghostly house calls work). Portraying Lyle and Erik, Nico Tortorella and Myko Olivier are good actors uneasily cast; of the two, Tortorella looks the least like his real-life counterpart--and, after the murders, his character (the more forceful brother) just dribbles away. Directed by both Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, "Blood Brothers" is well-made for TV and has some interesting asides, though it isn't a movie the participants would want to boast about. ** from ****