2023's 'To Catch a Killer' follows cop Eleanor, who joins an FBI investigation into a sniper terrorizing Baltimore partygoers. While the film excels in tension and initial storytelling, it ultimately lacks depth with characters and plot resolution. The opening scene skillfully sets an ominous tone, and the film maintains a gripping pace, yet it doesn't tie all its elements together effectively. Despite engaging performances, especially from Ben Mendelsohn, the narrative seems to deviate without sufficient pay-off, leaving it feeling somewhat incomplete despite its thrilling premise.
Unfortunately, this is also exactly where 2023's fun but ultimately lacking FBI thriller To Catch a Killer, which just got added to Netflix, goes wrong. It doesn't take much to make a great thriller, particularly when a serial killer is involved.
The details of the case unfold slowly, with disparate winding paths resolving into dead ends and bizarre new clues sprouting up out of the blue. It all plays out exactly how you hope a procedural thriller of this variety would: economical, tense storytelling with a clever breadcrumb trail of hunches leading us closer and closer to the killer.
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