10/4/2016 - Amanda Knox (2016) - 5/10

Starts out really strong, capturing our interest and investing us emotionally. Unfortunately, it does not sustain the intensity on an intellectual or emotional level, touching on a good story but not quite delivering a good film.

It loses its luster and drive as it leaves too many questions completely untouched, gives a truly cursory glance at the trial, and paints an unintelligible emotional portrait of our main characters (which, without facts and details, becomes the crux of the entire film's drive).

Strange cases and the quizzical characters involved are so often captivating. This film has that going for it. I enjoy the ambiguity and the journey for truth, but interest wained as it went on. Satisfying, but nothing too special. This film is a great trailer for an in-depth examination of what happened.