Unabomber: The True Story

Great tv!! Im not a TV series person due to work, lack of time and exhaustion! but I watched this in two days! Fantastic, lOved it.

Unabomber, staring Robert Hays whom gained fame from the comedic Airplane movies and TV actor Dean Stockwell, was one of the worst, poorly edited movies i have ever seen. The acting was terrible on the part of all players, including Hays and Stockwell, whos carrers have burned out and it was clearly evident in their performances that they no longer hold passion for their work.

Each of bombing scenes seems as though they were produced by a band of amateur vidiographers, with the actor curiously opening up the over-stamped, small white packages from unknown senders. This is followed by the screen typically turning blank accompanied by the noises of a terrable explosion. It seems there were no genuine pyrotechnics involved, just the screen turning white and bad acting.

While it did shed a historical light on the horrendous events which took place during the 80s and 90s, the film was rather silly and was slightly comedic because of its poor acting. The actor who played Theodore Kazynski had an uncanny resemblance to Emilio Estevez, which was amusing.

Why is it whenever a serial killer is sentenced TV companies decide to make a TVM about the case ? This is a bad idea on both grounds of taste and artistic licence .

UNABOMBER: THE TRUE STORY is no better than most of these true crime TVMs . In fact it`s probably worse because much of the storyline descends into soap opera territory - the killer`s brother falls in love love ? Oh big deal . But my biggest beef is to do with the portrayal of investigator Ben Jeffries. So much of his early detective work to profiling the unabomber is down to intuition is it ? Great , maybe if the police used simple intuition to catch criminals instead of eyewitness statements and forensic evidence they`d be more criminals in prison - they`d certainly be more people in prison . And seeing as his real life name isn`t Ben Jeffries I`m led to ask how much of the other facts in the story have been changed . At no time did I feel there was any explanation as to why Theodore Kaczynski decided to become a terrorist against the technological society . He published an anti- tech manifesto I know and the TVM quotes this but the audience are never told what caused his resentment against the modern era in the first place

Give this a miss because you won`t learn anything . And I also wish to point out that if someone is called Theodore it doesn`t always make them a mass murderer

Above average TV movie that effectively tells the true story of the UNABOMBER terrorist.Nothing fancy here,only direct to the point story telling and adequate acting.It's the story that carries the movie and most people who are familiar with TV movies will be satisfied as long as there is interest to learn about this interesting terrorist case......

One time well known actors such as Dean Stockwell and Robert Hays seem to end up in cheesy "real life" TV movies such as this one. Despite the serious nature of the subject and what happened, this is just plain bad and mediocre from start to finish. Dull and missable.