The Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson

As a follower of this case, I regretted watching this.

A film which will get views based upon the doubts it will try to stir up. Such sensationalism is a well worn Hollywood movie practice including many of the "controversial" Michael Douglas movies, but this lands more like William Castle.

The premise as is detailed in the trailer, is that the famous murders that took place June 12, 2004 were in fact committed by a serial killer, not OJ Simpson. This possibility of what this film shows was previously raised on CNN but it simply has never been taken seriously elsewhere.

IMO, this film would have been best done as some kind of "documentary" with licensed images, period TV news video and headlines of the time to pose the possibilities that this presents.

The "docudrama" format, esp THIS one, IMO, fails to engage the viewer while presenting at times what appears to be at times a low budget slasher film. Either the director doesn't seem to want the audience to emphasize with the victims or is unable to.

Mena Suvari's performance lacks depth between simply switching from twitchy to vapid. It was real missed opportunity for Suvari who has managed to deliver in other roles. But Nick Stahl rises above expectations. My biggest disappointment in any of these portrayals was the superficial portrayal of Ron Goldman. OJ's character is shown only briefly and the movie does not make any effort of showing him as empathic, however, the detached portrait of the victims left a bad taste in my mouth.

MAJOR PROBLEMS.

Because the things I will list below aren't in the movie they are not "spoilers".

My biggest problem is that the film makes no effort in addressing the elephants in the room. For the premise of this film to be true, then one has to accept a whole list of things.

I'll start with the big one. During the trial the Simpson defense searched for every possible alternative.

If even PART of the information presented in this film were known at the time, Simpson's defense team would have been all over it. They were not. There was ZERO mention of it at or away from the trial (on the media).

To me, it is unbelievable that the "dream team" would have ignored the information presented in this film had it stood up to any scrutiny. I'm *sure* the house *next door* was checked out at the time.

Both OJ and the "dream team" *did* mention drug dealers along with graphic descriptions of their methods both during the trial and on camera.

But that theory is not what *this* film is about. OJ Simpson frequently referred to drug dealers after the trial but no one until now was there ever a extended mention of the things that this movie shows.

Then... OJ wrote a book "If I Did It" (sic). *That* would have been a good place to have presented what's in his movie... only it was not.

Then there is, well, practically everything else that one must ask, "so if this is what happened, then why....?"

Like the timing of the attack with OJ's departure to Chicago. Was that just coincidence? That's not proof of his guilt but that was some coincidence if this movie was true. Then there's the bloody finger. Then the finding of bloody glove, the loud banging on Kato's air conditioner (which remains a mystery of logic to me), the trail of victims blood through his house. Were all these things just coincidences?

I'm not even talking about OJ's history of violence. I will agree that there is a big difference between being a moody wife beater and a premeditated murderer but it's not as if this was out of the blue.

The forensic dept in LA may have been sloppy, but could the gang that couldn't handle their samples as the textbook says really pull off such a conspiracy?

Then the famous Bronco chase. Everyone has something to hide and I could see him panicking, however, let's remember that to most people, he was going to kill himself when that truck stopped. But if not that, then you have a disguise and a failed getaway.

There is no doubt that questions remain unanswered, but this is just too "out there" for this "trial of the century" viewer to be satisfied with.

The ESPN documentary "Made in America" to me is definitive and for a docu-drama mini-series, "The People v. O. J. Simpson" offered a high level of accuracy and surprisingly good performances.

I've seen other presentations proposing others (ones suggesting Al Cowlings, Jason Simpson and Ron Shipp being the real murderers), but among all of these, this ranks the lowest.

Yes. It's that bad. Mena Suvari is the Exec Producer for this movie and I wonder where she received funding. This movie is not even worthy of a Lifetime showing. Terrible story, Terrible script, Terrible acting, and Terrible decision of mine to watch. I should have known better. Mena hasn't been in a good movie since American Beauty and it's amazing she's still around.

Completely fictional, trash. Bad acting. Bad directing. I bet if you did some digging you would find OJ was the financial backer. Calling this movie trash is actually an insult to trash.

Why did u have to put Nicoles name to this? You should have just made it an independent film. OJ is so evidently and obviously guilty of these murders. What an insult to the two deceased and their families. Also what a crap actress cast as Nicole. Mena suvari really?

I seen this movie advertised, even after wondering how it could be seen thru her eyes, as she never left notes of those days, a stranger named Glen around, or mentioned him to anyone. She did mention to friends, family and cops her fear of her ex.

You keep thinking it will get better. Nope dismiss that wish. It only gets worse. Total disrespect to their lives, brutal deaths, and memories. It was a waste of film, they should have burned this.

If this serial killer was involved police would have known, defense surely would have known etc.

Goldman and Brown families: I am so sorry they created more hurt, and pain for you. I thought it would be fact based, or never would have helped them make money off your tragedy. If you can sue please do it. They should not be allowed to trash your loved ones to make a quick buck, and get away with it. Its obvious who was behind it, keeping his name clear tho.

Anyone, with any sort of brain knows the killer. The one acquitted due to a bias jury, defenses games and tactics, money, fame ,race ,the list goes on as u well know. The sick man even left the kids asleep upstairs, to find their moms body. Doesn't get much lower than that. There was, and is plenty of evidence of his past domestic violence with Nicole. Yet he was convicted once, got community service. He had some type golf charity allowed as community service total bull.

The system failed her, even in the end. Ron bravely fought to save her. Why was the abuser not put away, done something with, in a country where all are supposed to be equal, the rich never are held accountable. He wrote if I did it as a slap in the face, after acquitted, due double jeopardy, he could scream it from rooftops.

The DNA doesn't lie, he was there, cut on his finger, their blood on and in bronco, as well as on his socks, and inside his home. Defense maybe explain Nicole's, she used to live there , being in the home. When did Ron Goldman drop by and bleed ?

Found guilty in civil court, he ran to Florida, so his money would be untouchable. Never got a penny, the only punishment left. That's true scum. Used kids as pawns to her family to be quiet.

All of it makes my skin crawl. Her ignored cries for help, because he was rich and famous. The jury pushing black power fist pumps, after the acquittal. Their death, and letting the killer walk, was one disgusting payback for wrongs of the past, neither Ron nor Nicole had any part of.

Ruining a cops career trying to use words for a play as motive for a set up total bs. He had zero reason, as comes to the victims.

I will never forget as I , with the rest of a shocked world, heard not guilty. Was a moment sealed in my mind, as the day I lost faith in our justice system.

Save yourself time, and energy. Don't pay them to trash victims. Watch a fact based documentary, just don't watch this.