“It's
always lightest just before the dark”
Four
years ago when I was in London I saw posters for The Killer Inside Me in the Tube stations. The title alone
intrigued me along with the cast. Kate Hudson, Casey Affleck, and Jessica Alba
are three actors I could not really picture being in a movie together let alone
one with such a title.
The
story is about a police officer named Lou Ford (Affleck) in a small Texas town
he has lived in all his life. He sent to tell a prostitute named Joyce Lakeland
to get out of town before she is arrested. She smacks him and yells at him to
get out then he smacks her back and then all the sudden they are having sex. Then
he starts coming around to see her more.
The
local big shot in town pays Lou to get Joyce out of town because his son is
going around with her and wants to marry her. Lou gets the son to Joyce’s place
and he winds up beating Joyce’s face to a pulp and then shoots the son making
it look like Joyce shot the guy. The local big shot takes Joyce to a bigger
town where she can be taken care of but she dies.
After
this Lou begins killing people to get to his end of taking the local big shot
down. His plan backfires. He figures out that the police have evidence on him
and he needs to clean up his mess.
I
cannot offer a better explanation because I was not crazy about The Killer Inside Me. Unfortunately only
the title was intriguing. I forgot how awful Jessica Alba is as an actress and
Kate Hudson really is no better. Casey Affleck is not that great himself. The
story was actually surprisingly shocking because it was brutal. It was not like
crazy fake gory it was real life gory. Some of the violent scenes you really do
not see coming and they shock you. I think
The Killer Inside Me could have been a lot better. There could have been a
better cast no doubt about that. It felt very slow and I lost interest. There
was just no hook it began boring. The only redeeming quality of the movie is
the music I actually really liked the music.
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