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This is like a low budget Kiwi version of Dexter, but in Dexter you could root for Dexter because he ws killing off sick serial killer scum like our erstwhile villain main character Joe Middleton. The first person thought narration is even more than in Dexter. This creep takes joy in killing random women who did him no harm. So I feel sort of guilty enjoying this based on the sexual sadism angle. But it has a charm and it also paired him with a female version of him Melissa Flowers who at first literally busted his ball with pliers. Then add Joe's awful mom Evelyn and a decent Christian woman who worked as a maintenance man in the same ChristChurch Police Station as our lead psycho. But instead of being a CSI wonk like Dexter, he is a lowly janitor. But like Dexter, he keeps ahead of the cops due to eavesdropping and snooping around. Like I said befoe, it seems immoral to enjoy a show so amoral and vile like this but it has a droll sense of humor and some interesting characters and plot twists too.

Copycat seemed to epitomize all that was wrong with big budget Hollywood Serial Killer Thrillers, down to the super savvy almost supernatural killers who only mess up in the end when its time to die. It had sort of a post modern feel of it with using an actual professional profiler psychologist as the center of the movie, Helen Hudson by Sigourney Weaver, who was driven to agoraphobia by a vicious attack by a now jailed super serial killer played by Harry Connick Jr. As Daryll Lee Cullum. The latter plays a rednecky version of Hannibal Lecter, giving out heroes all sorts of advice from his death row prison cell along with his band of deviant killers including the current one on the loose. Okay it was shot full of cliches but it was still good thanks to good old Sigourney and Holley too, who plays the lead inspector Monahan of the SFPD. They even waste the two male detective including the then cute Dermot Mulroney as Ruben Goetz, leaving the two intrepid females to save the day.

The movie is called Copycat because the titular serial killer faithfully copies other far more notorious serial killers like Dahmer, Gacy, Bundy, Ramirez and Buono/Bianchi.

The only two plot points I didn't like was the way they did in Ruben Goetz in a pointless shoot out in the police station with some Chinese suspect whom they were freeing. Then for all her legitimate fear our profiler had of being attacked, you'd think she would of had some inside latches and drawbars on her doors, another way to communicate by radio etc, an alarm system and less windows in her spacious flat. Oh yeah, she should have been armed too. This might have prevented our demonic serial killer from entering her flat at will.