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Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (15)

Drama, Crime

US crime biopic based on the life of serial killer Ted Bundy.


The critical consensus

Efron gambles with his image, but he knows when to up the star power. It’s perhaps fitting that the film falls flat when he, playing a killer who loved the spotlight, leaves the screen.

***(*)(*)Olly Richards, Empire Online, 29/04/2019

Zac Efron turns in a bravura performance as serial killer Ted Bundy in this otherwise unsatisfying biopic.

**(*)(*)(*)Katherine McLaughlin, The List, 29/04/2019

Efron is compelling, but the film itself leaves a bitter aftertaste.

Hannah Woodhead, Little White Lies, 01/05/2019

Efron’s casting in the real-life story of Ted Bundy, executed for the murder of 30 women, is startling but the film shies away from awkward questions.

**(*)(*)(*)Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 02/05/2019

Moral vacuity isn’t to blame for unsatisfying film.

**(*)(*)(*)Clarisse Loughrey, The Independent, 03/05/2019

While the period details are slavishly recreated, there’s an absence when it comes to character details for the two women, particularly Bundy’s wife, Carole Ann Boone (Scodelario). We know she moved to Florida to be near him, we know she married him in prison. What the film fails to explore is why.

***(*)(*)Wendy Ide, The Observer, 05/05/2019

Where and when?

General release. Check local listings for show times.

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