To Catch a Killer (2023)
Thomas Harris's Hannibal Lecter novels may or may not have been the direct inspiration for this procedural, but their DNA is all over the production.
An impossibly skilled, mass-murdering sniper is on the loose, and a small FBI team is quickly put together by a veteran agent that includes a female Baltimore beat cop who catches his eye by her quick thinking, (she records panicked tenants, possibly including the suspect, exiting an explosion. She also signals to him, by a single side glance, that the apartment's toilet might contain DNA evidence, which it does. Her focus on certain details during an interrogation might be more meaningful than what I perceived, which was simply some nervousness.)
She is a damaged, suicidal, would-be FBI agent, except she was rejected by the agency; but her psychological profile links her (though not psychically in this case) to the serial killer giving her insights no one else has.
The details of the case are sufficiently different from Red Dragon or Silence of the Lambs, but the character types, their relationships, and their respective stories' structure, including the conclusion at an isolated setting and killer's dungeon (also with unwisely insufficient backup,) are clearly similar.
Some departmental incompetency aspects are quite cliched already, and rather than rewriting them the filmmakers simply resorted to acknowledge them by making a couple of jokey references to the mayor from Jaws and Jaws II. These might merit rolling your eyes at the screen, but don't ruin the film watching experience.
With Shailene Woodley, Ben Mendelsohn, Jovan Adepo, and Ralph Ineson.
Check it out.
Thomas Harris's Hannibal Lecter novels may or may not have been the direct inspiration for this procedural, but their DNA is all over the production.
An impossibly skilled, mass-murdering sniper is on the loose, and a small FBI team is quickly put together by a veteran agent that includes a female Baltimore beat cop who catches his eye by her quick thinking, (she records panicked tenants, possibly including the suspect, exiting an explosion. She also signals to him, by a single side glance, that the apartment's toilet might contain DNA evidence, which it does. Her focus on certain details during an interrogation might be more meaningful than what I perceived, which was simply some nervousness.)
She is a damaged, suicidal, would-be FBI agent, except she was rejected by the agency; but her psychological profile links her (though not psychically in this case) to the serial killer giving her insights no one else has.
The details of the case are sufficiently different from Red Dragon or Silence of the Lambs, but the character types, their relationships, and their respective stories' structure, including the conclusion at an isolated setting and killer's dungeon (also with unwisely insufficient backup,) are clearly similar.
Some departmental incompetency aspects are quite cliched already, and rather than rewriting them the filmmakers simply resorted to acknowledge them by making a couple of jokey references to the mayor from Jaws and Jaws II. These might merit rolling your eyes at the screen, but don't ruin the film watching experience.
With Shailene Woodley, Ben Mendelsohn, Jovan Adepo, and Ralph Ineson.
Check it out.
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