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I turned it off after his 2. Killing. Utterly ridiculous! Horrific acting. It was like they were all reading a bad script. The filming was attrosious and had the feeling of a bad B movie. Matt Dillion( Usually a good actor) in the 20 or so minutes I was able to get thru was awful. They did not make me believe in any way this man was capable of much less tying his shoes. The 2 lady so reluctant to let him in was OK as soon as he said he could double her pension. Please. This is was not intelligent, humorous or anything but horrible. I have maybe twice in 40 years turned off a movie because it was just that bad. Everyone wants to be the in crowd because it's Lars von Tier. Please even Antichrist wasn't all that...I want to edit to add if you want to see an excellent serial killer film that this was perhaps going for the same campy feel watch " American Psycho ". That was everything this was maybe tying to be but could not.

The problem here is that there is no suspense; you already know what's going to happen in almost every incident except the first one. The film had a good start with the talented Uma Thurman making the first fifteen minutes very interesting. But, unfortunately, the film descends into a predictable pattern despite the good direction of Lars, one of the best. This is pretty much due to two fatal flaws; the acting of Matt Dillon; who is not really believable as a con man/killer. A killer maybe; but not a con man. The other fatal weakness is the writing; which although trying to copy the Coen Brothers chemical formula, fails to do so. It lacks the class of American Psycho or the intensity of Zodiac. It is rather a dumb movie about a dumb man who does dumb things in the name of art. It had possibililies, but they were never realized.

Matt Dillon should not have any difficulty in scaring the beejeebies out of his audience by getting under your skin, literally and figuratively. At a recorded (longer than most feature films) run time of 155 minutes, don't be surprised if a few of your fellow movie goers abruptly leave the screening before Jack's series of mutilations and serial murders ends. As a suspense film that runs for over 2 1/2 hours, it is obviously hard for the novice fan of any serial killer themed film to hang in there without heaving up their popcorn, or dampening their seat with a puddle in their pants. Danish born Writer/Director Lars von Trier is no slouch when it comes to captivating an audience's attention. He has been engaged in film making for close to 40 years now and with a combination of mastering his dreamlike visual effects and maintaining his key subjects persona with abnormal behaviors (as is the case with our serial killer Jack) that intrigue his audience to wonder "what's to come next?"

It's disgusting. I felt uneasy the whole time. I wanted to stop watching. I couldn't. I am in love with this movie. It was gory, gorgeous artwork or a portrait of an unapologetic serial killer and his kills. It's also educational, as it walks you through history, poetry, music, engineering principles, architecture, the afterlife and the myth of toxic masculinity (As a woman, I've been victimized by women, personally and professionally. No gender owns toxic. Anyone can be toxic). Days later, I can't stop thinking about this movie. It should be a crime that Matt Dillon wasn't nominated for an Oscar.