ChuckFlixs: Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile

This ChuckFlixs review is a day late. I wanted to post my review of Extremely Wicked, Shocking Evil, and Vile last night on the day of its release. However, I chose to rewatch the documentary that came out at the beginning of the year. I must say that I enjoyed the movie a lot more than the documentary.

In case you havenâ€™t watched either or donâ€™t know what it is, both are about serial killer Ted Bundy. Ted Bundy was a serial killer during the 1970â€™s in 7 states who targeted young attractive women. The documentary of course follows the life of Ted Bundy and gives you a lot of facts.

The movie takes a different approach than the documentary. For over a decade he denied that he killed any of these women and claimed that he was innocent. The film approaches it from that standpoint. Because his girlfriend and his family believed that he couldnâ€™t commit any of those crimes. A lot of people in America said that he seemed like a nice guy and didnâ€™t do it.

A lot of people are saying that they are glorifying Ted but I disagree. Itâ€™s from the point of view from someone who thought that see knew him. She didnâ€™t believe that he was the killer. Itâ€™s an interesting approach to take a movie from. People like to be offended and try to ruin a movie.

Positives
My biggest positive is Zac Efron who gives an amazing performance. For years Zac Efron has played the same character basically. Movies like Baywatch, and the Neighbors movies. Take his comedic gold in Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates. For the most part he has been casted and billed as an comedic actor. He reaches depths that I didnâ€™t know he was capable of. This is his best performance of his career by far. I want him to be nominated for an Oscar next year.

Really everyone did a good to great job performance wise. The editing and direction of the film was also well done. I also liked Lilly Collins performance who played Tedâ€™s girlfriend.!

The film did a good job of not glorifying what he did. The whole time I thought it was an insane and horrible person.

Middle of the Road
Anglea Sarafyan played the friend of Ted Bundyâ€™s girlfriend did an okay job. But I really didnâ€™t care for her character. Same for Haley Joel Osmentâ€™s character. He played a co worker of Lillyâ€™s and he did an okay job and served his purpose.

Negatives
I donâ€™t have to many negatives about this film. One isnâ€™t even the film itself but the first trailer that came out about it. It completely set the wrong tone for the movie. But Iâ€™m not going to hold that against my rating.

I really canâ€™t say a lot of my negatives because they could be considered spoilers. Even though itâ€™s based on a true story that just had a documentary about it. They did add or slightly change stuff from what actually happened for the movie. I understand doing it but not all of it worked. One negative is something minor and being nit picking. But the title is ridiculously long.

I have been thinking about my rating for a couple of hours. Iâ€™m stuck between an 8-9. It might go up or down after I rewatch it.

Rating: 8.7/10