Murder on the Cape

I got about ten minutes into this film...quite possibly the worst ten minutes of screen time, ever. Appalling acting, horrendous script - even visually insipid. 0 stars from me. Why, Netflix, why?!!

Hey Crab Man. Hey Earl. These two sentences have more plot and are more exciting than anything you will see in this movie. Were it not for the fact that this is based on a true story and someone was actually killed it would be funny. The camera work was done by someone who seems to think that every shot must fill the frame with a face so close to the camera that you can actually smell the mediocrity. In one shot the director seems to have gone out of his way to fill whatever space was left around the actors bulbous face with a plain white background. You can imagine him shouting "A little more to the left! It doesnt work unless there is absolutely NOTHING behind him!" This does nothing to distract from riveting dialogue such as when the female victim tells her love interest "I want to see you again" to which he replies, "Alright" and leaves.

The best part of the whole movie was the drug peddling townie loser, who I hope to God was actually baked out of his mind to have spent this much energy on this piece of crap and that he no longer remembers making it.

I rated this two stars only because for the first 15 minutes I couldn't stop laughing at the poor production value of this made as a high school project movie. The other 75 minutes were like a prostate exam only without the feeling that you did something good for yourself when it was over.

My mind began drifting immediately. The writing is abysmal. The structure is kind of random. Quite possibly has the least talented actors ever assembled. The sound track is so banal, yet overblown.

This is bad. It's just horrid.

My family cannot forgive me for choosing this movie. The storyline was both slow and also rushed. It seems that there was no director in the movie and the actors took turns to film different scenes themselves. Valuable data download was lost as we watched this whilst on holidays. There was obviously not much of a budget for this movie as the same clothes were constantly worn and the actors seemed to be random locals rather than professionals.

The camera would pan in and out of focus and the scenes would cut from one to another with no flow of the storyline.

It's such a shame as it sounded like a great storyline. I have never written a movie review in my life however felt it was imperative to warn people to not watch it. The only good thing about this movie was the way my family bonded over the terrible acting and directing.

P.S Don't forget to do a Where's Wally to find the one extra they could afford to pay that appears randomly in scenes.

I thoroughly enjoyed the well researched and insightful ABC News Podcast - A Killing on the Cape. (ABC News also produced a bit less enjoyable, less insightful two hour TV version)

This movie has a lot of moxie claiming to be based on a true story. Christa Worthington was murdered IRL and is the victim in this monstrosity of a movie but that's where the connection to the true story ends.

The acting is atrocious, the production pathetic and the writing (uh, where's my alliterative thesaurus?) just wrong ... My wife wisely gave up ten minutes in. But I was intrigued as to how many Elegis does it take to make a movie. Different folks with that surname were crammed into the credits or maybe the same folks wearing different hats.

The investigative podcast - A KILLING on the Cape - consisted of 7 episodes, each around 40 minutes. This allowed plenty of time to delve into the backgrounds of the main and tangential figures in the investigation.

MURDER on the Cape focuses exclusively on the relationship of Christa and the ex-fisherman and totally ignores almost all the elements of the real case. So not only is it bad, it's also disingenuous. And yes, as all the other reviews have pointed out, it's bad, really bad. Knowing much of the real story only makes it worse, much worse.

Finally, no disrespect to all the Elegis. They are probably fine people. Ms. Elegi used her own children in the move, IMDB notes. But maybe movie making isn't meant for them. Or at the very least, making movies based on real events.