True Story

True Story is a watchable but dubiously cast and not very exciting variation on Primal Fear, with just a hint of Shutter Island. But with only part of the subject matter taken from both of those films. They would have done better if they’d had their buddy Seth Rogen sit as the judge and get everyone thoroughly high. (07.09.2020)

The movie could definitely have been better and could have had better plot development, but the two main actors (Jonah Hill and James Franco) entertained me so much that I almost didn't care what the movie was about. And yet, it is a very interesting subject matter. Presenting the story of a family killer not as a sensation, but as a tale of two men who met under strange circumstances. (24.07.2015)

Thanks to this movie I discovered a few previously unknown things. For example, Jonah Hill is a complete rookie. I don’t believe he is likable. I didn’t believe he was in any previous movie and I don’t believe it now. But James Franco is a different story. He not only directs, operates the camera, and writes screenplays, but he also acts and does it brilliantly. The problem of this movie is the fact that it approaches the investigation of the murderer in a completely different way than is usual. It wants to convince the viewer that he isn’t a psychopath, but only a pawn that didn’t do anything. And even though I didn’t believe Jonah the whole movie, I still enjoyed that psycho character of his. In the finale, he completely killed it and salvaged this movie with his charisma. (28.04.2016)