I am 45 minutes into the movie and barely anything has happened. I know things will eventually happen which is the only reason why I am still watching it. So if you like very slow movies in which nothing happens in nearly an hour (and who does?) then maybe you will enjoy this. Very disappointingly slow. Update: Just finished watching it. The movie never got more interesting, never got better. It is a bizarre film that left out all of the interesting parts and was slow from start to finish. Incredibly painful to sit through. 1/10 One of the worst movies I've seen this year.

Ted K is a movie/biography that just won't please everyone. It will probably please far left people more than right wing ideologists. Ted Kaczynski is an anarchist, an eco warrior/terrorist, but first of all a very eccentric person that is fed up with the world and the modern technology. In a way I can understand him, although killing people isn't the solution. I thought the movie was well made, very informative about his life and way of thinking. Everybody knows the Unabomber, but who really knows what drove him to this behavior, who did ever read his manifesto? Not alot of people, so this movie is perfect to have a better view on the person. Sharlto Copley nailed it playing him. He carries this movie, very good performance from him. Ted K is almost two hours long but never boring. I read alot of reviewers found it repetitive but I disagree. What else do yo expect from a guy that lives in a cabin in the woods in the middle of nowhere, without water or electricity? Of course there are going to be repetitive scenes, because the man possesses nothing, so it's only natural to see him doing his daily habits. People can hate Ted Kaczynski for what he's done, but he's not a stupid man, on the contrary is very clever, almost a visionary. Nobody can deny that modern technology makes people dumb. It should be the opposite but look around you, for example look at the "influencers", you know that dumb generation that thinks they have something interesting to tell, and most of all their followers, the other kind of extremely dumb people we have now. People unable to think for themselves, obliged to listen to other dumb people, hypnotized by their smartphones and other ridicule gadgets. I can't call that progress, on the contrary. Technology is supposed to help us, and it does, but it's not making people smarter, just the opposite. Everybody has a smartphone, but it's the phone that is smart, not his user.

As someone who is extremely familiar with the Unabomber story and having read his manifesto, I felt this film was excellent. I have watched every documentary about the Unabomber, and they all center around his arrest, trial, and the resulting media circus that followed. Not one other film on this man detailed who he was as a person, illustrated his family dynamic in such a way, or discussed Ted's other criminal acts in a way that made the viewer understand why he did what he did. I have read many reviews that stated the viewers felt this was not a complete look at the Unabomber story, and while I agree this is true, these people are missing the point. We have all been inundated with the general details of why Ted committed these crimes, seen the media coverage of his arrest and trial, so to make yet another film containing this would be pointless. This film explores who he was emotionally, and it did an excellent job showing the viewer a side of this man we hadn't seen before.

The Unabomber was coming up with fascinating ideas on society from as early as the 1970's and as time goes by, those ideas become more prescient and more true. So, how does this film go about exploring these great insights into society? How does this film explore the intellect of its subject? The sad answer is, it ignores it. Ted K, was a fantastic opportunity to do something intellectually stimulating, but for some reason, a choice was made to ignore the intelligence and make the story about a crazy hobo who lives in the forest, struggles with sexual frustration and makes mail bombs because he can't find a girlfriend. If I were conspiratorial, I could easily imagine the powerful overlords of our society were getting so worried about people reading the Unabomber's manifesto, that they set out to destroy his character by making this film. The film is competently produced and Sharlto Copley's performance is strong; the problem is the approach. This film didn't attempt to study Ted Kaczynski's character, they set out to assassinate it.

A movie should provide some sort of entertainment or if it's a documentary it should inform or educate the viewer. The director can't seem to figure out what he wants to do and it ends up giving us nothing. There are no dates or history for the viewer to follow along in the Ted K story and it just wanders aimlessly through scene after scene until it abruptly ends. The entertainment value is really low, and if you've watched Unabomber then you know most if not all of the story and this adds nothing. Most of the film is an actor in the wilderness cursing a airplanes in the sky and loggers in the woods. A one star review means that the film should never have been made. This is a good example. For anyone interested in the story, this gives very few details and just throws quotes at us hoping that they create mystery. For the rest of us who actually watched any of the previous shows they will be completely disappointed as this adds nothing new. The question is, why would a director make a lackluster film about a person without any new information, 25 years after the incident? There is nothing of value here.

Ted is my personal HERO !!! FUCK MODERN "civilization" where Nature does not matter!!! People does not matter !!! STOP. Must Watch for opened eyes people !

Great acting, Visually elegant. Great directing. Unique. The incredible music and the editing brings you into Ted's mind. It is a totally absorbing movie .

"Ted K" is a true-crime biopic on Ted Kacynski, aka The Unabomber, whose social awkwardness drove him from being a maths prodigy to an impoverished hermit in rural Montana where without plumbing or electricty he grew increasingly angry at technologic advances represented by planes, snow-mobiles, loggers etc disturbing his tranquility (& destroying modern life). This drove him from low-level vandalism to his infamous '78-'95 mail-bomb campaign that killed three & injured 23. Co-writer Tony Stone directs with a curious low-budget '80s style and relies heavily on Sharlto Copley's lead performance - but Copley delivers. Quirky yet interesting.

I've previously watched the excellent series Manhunt: Unabomber so felt compelled to see this through. It's factual but very very slow and light on detail about Ted K's targets and focusses far too much on his backwoodsman lifestyle imo. Nevertheless a fascinating story about the largest manhunt in FBI history even though we get to see very little of it.

Disappointing. What's his name is an outstanding actor and was born to play the role. But the producers of this film went cheap and had the film only focus on a strange old man in the woods. Plus the film seems oddly too clean.