American Animals

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Grant H @dj530 11h A clever and thoughtful docudrama, American Animals gives premise to how our bad choices cannot only affect our lives, but certainly the lives of others. On the contrary, our thirst to be somebody and break the mold of our routine lives as a capitalistic victims, who is wrong and who is right? Evan Peters and Barry Keoghan make thing long and hard about the stories enormous themes, as Barry Layton's direction stays true to the crime thriller drama. See more Michael L @WidgetMJL 5d Novel yet successful entry waiving documentary and a real film. There’s interviews with the actual men who did this with a stellar cast handling the acting. See more Mary F @RT70986907 Jun 30 So I'm sitting here watching this thing, asking... WHY? These young men had everything... loving, financially stable homes; access to the best educations; and great health. Out of boredom, they not only committed this awful crime, but Hollywood actually made an overlong movie about it... a movie they also appear in (in the documentary part). If this doesn't reek of the ultimate in white male privilege, I don't know what does. The message of the film is that white guys can do something as fundamentally wrong as this and actually be celebrated for it. And yes, a film made about you is a celebration. They didn't get paid for their story, but they did get paid for their time. Neither they nor their story warranted a film, which received all kinds of accolades. The upshot? They solved their boredom problem to great success, didn't they? I'm done with this POS. Anyone involved in this film should be ashamed. Only in America would this BS get made. See more Tim A. @TimmyTaco Jun 3 Had no expectations but really liked this movie. Really good job of weaving the story and acting in with commentary from the actual people involved. Also the actors played their parts really well. It was both really entertaining and really well done. See more Sal D. @JustTheLaw May 25 I greatly appreciated the duality of the real life narratives however competing with the rendition of events played by actors. This made the film compelling. What the movie lacked and left it short of 4 stars was more insights other than short hand of the motivations of each of the four lead characters. Sure money is a motivator but unless withheld, none had prior records of theft so it wasn’t simply a windfall score. See more Alain E @AlainE May 22 Not very absorbing overall. The use of interpolated segments featuring the actual perpetrators during the course of the narrative is ineffective and breaks the cadence. The end vignettes are much stronger. On Prime. See more Read all reviews

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