Lizzie Borden Took an Ax2014
Lizzie Borden Took an Ax (2014)
Lizzie Borden Took an Ax Photos
Movie Info
Watch it now
Cast
as Lizzie Borden
as Andrew Jennings
as Emma
as Hosea Knowlton
as Andrew Borden
Critic Reviews for Lizzie Borden Took an Ax
All Critics (14) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (6) | Rotten (8)
The movie itself apparently isn't sure the murders themselves are lurid enough. So it adds a few things that didn't happen, plus some 21st-century music.
The movie ends on such a note as to cause the audience to wonder how long it will take before "A," of Pretty Little Liars fame, starts leaving Lizzie Borden an incriminating text or two.
It's slow and heavy-handed, tedious almost throughout. An average episode of Oxygen's Snapped isn't this dull, and has more interesting things to say about women who kill.
Lizzie Borden takes an ax to many assumptions -- including the one that Lifetime movies aren't worth watching.
Lizzie comes across more as a whiny, moody teen than a psychotic murderess, and Ricci is much-too-attractive to play the dowdy, crazy-eyed Lizzie familiar from those faded black-and-white photos (just sayin').
Christina Ricci does a haunting turn as notorious hatchet swinger Lizzie Borden.
Audience Reviews for Lizzie Borden Took an Ax
From Lifetime comes the TV movie Lizzie Borden Took an Ax, a chilling drama about the notorious killer. Christina Ricci stars as Lizzie Borden, a New England socialite who feels oppressed and resentful toward her parents, and when they are brutally murdered she finds herself as the prime suspect. Told as a murder mystery, there are hints at a possible third party committing the murders, or that Lizzie had a psychotic break and was unaware of what she had done. However, the writing can be a little weak at times as the courtroom drama isn't exactly riveting. Yet the costumes and sets are especially well-done and look authentic to the time period. And the soundtrack, which is made up of modern alternative rock, offers an interesting juxtaposition to the visual aesthetic. Lizzie Borden Took an Ax meanders a bit, but overall it's a suspenseful psychological thriller.
Super Reviewer
[img]http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/user/icons/icon14.gif[/img]
Super Reviewer
I saw this on Lifetime Network. I found it very interesting, and nicely done. Learned some new things to the case that I never knew..that's always a good thing.
Super Reviewer
Lizzie Borden Took an Ax Quotes
| Lizzie Borden: | You know why I didn't run. Because I thought to myself, that's what killers do. They run. I didn't want to look like a killer |