I Was Lorena Bobbitt

Like another reviewer, I went into this movie with high expectations. I will say it was very entertaining but it was also very one sided. Lorena Gallo, as she goes by these days, works very hard to paint herself in the perfect light. She never did anything wrong, she only tried to please her husband, and was very naive/innocent throughout the entirety of the movie.

What the movie doesn't mention is that she stole $7000 from the woman that gave her the job as a nanny and at the nail salon. Or that she was arrested for assault, (albeit years after the incident) for striking her own mother. I'm not stating this to judge Miss Gallo, because we've all done things we aren't proud of; I'm merely pointing out that she's not as innocent as the movie portrays her. At the end of the day, she was still the victim of abuse and that should never be tolerated. I just wish they would have done a better job of showing both sides of the story. FYI This is coming from a woman who's on her side.

It's sad that this kind of domestic violence against women still happens. I thought the movie was good but the actor portraying a Marine had long hair and Marines don't have hair that long. They usually have a skin fade or high and tight and have strict weight requirements as well as being extremely physically fit. He didn't look like a Marine. John was a disgrace to the Marines dressed in that uniform as well as his behavior.

Mediocre TV film. The story is important and interesting but the way it is shown is not very convincing. Script tells details of the remarkable case reasonably and clearly, but it is not engaging or balanced enough. The idea of mixing documentary/real testimonies and fiction parts is often successful, but here it adds nothing. Acting is slightly over, but not properly bad. Music score is the paramount cliché of a thriller generic one, but certainly there are many soundtracks which are worse elsewhere. There is an exploitation atmosphere that weakens the film's outcome, but not enough to make it be bad. Action and outdoor scenes are not poor, but not impressive either. To resume, the movie is tepid and also flirts to a soap opera style, reaching a quite mediocre level. Though, not properly a bad one...

Overall, this is pretty well made for Lifetime. There is a lot of care in depicting the early 90s and having the actual Lorena Bobbitt narrate is a nice touch.

However! Any time the lead actress, Dani Montalvo, needs to show "emotional vulnerability" it's just simpering, stammering, and drawing out the delivery of lines. Maybe it was the director's choice, but it was the wrong one. Consequently, the movie starts out pretty good but becomes increasingly annoying and you're ready for it to be over.

"I Was Lorena Bobbitt" reminds of the Amy Fisher movie that was told from Joey Buttafuoco's point of view. It is so lopsided at times that its credibility is weakened. Luke Humphrey does a nice job but John Bobbitt is such an orge in this movie that his part should have been played by Shrek. Oh by the way, the movie never mentions that after Lorena cut "it" off, she drove away and threw it out the car window into a park. All that said, "I was Lorena Bobbitt" is an okay Lifetime movie. It's just that my expectations were too high. (By the way, my wife doesn't agree with me. She really enjoyed the movie. )