TheWolf's Movie Review of Summer of Sam

Rating of
1.5/4

Summer of Sam

Save your time, watch something else.
TheWolf - wrote on 08/06/07

I really wanted this to be a good movie. When I read about it and I saw the previews for it I thought that this would be kind of cool. At the time I had read a book about a number of famous serial killers and one of the chapters was on the Son of Sam. Then...well.... the movie was just bad. What starts off as a cool movie about David Berkowitz turns into a movie with a ton of filler, mostly sex scenes, and a couple of story lines that just trail off into nowhere completely missing the direction the film should have gone in. The cast did a good job with what they were given, but the direction of the movie was misplaced and really should have stuck with the original premise of the year long string of terror that Berkowitz brought to the city in 1977.
This movie is beyond rescue unfortunately, and with any luck some day someone will put together a decent film with such as horrifying premise.

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