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Editorial Review:
Critics have universally praised Charlize Theron's performance in Monster, and the praise, for once, is astonishingly deserved. The gorgeous star of The Italian Job and The Cider House Rules vanishes into the character of Aileen Wuornos, a real-life serial killer and prostitute who murdered at least seven men in Florida. Monster traces her relationship with a young woman named Selby (Christina Ricci, The Ice Storm, Buffalo 66), which intertwines with Wuornos's murder spree. This remarkable movie finds compassion for Wuornos but unflinchingly faces her brutal crimes; Theron expresses this woman's horrific life history without softening her terrifying, dead-eyed stare. This is a gripping, devastating performance, a physical and psychological transformation comparable to Robert DeNiro's in Raging Bull. The movie's moral and emotional complexity wouldn't succeed without this searing performance--but succeed it does, and it will stick with you for some time afterward. --Bret Fetzer

Monster [Region 2] Reviews:
The Disappearance of Charlize Theron
2009-11-30 - MONSTER would still be a good movie without Charlize Theron...but after watching it a couple of times, it is fascinating to watch Ms. Theron literally disappear into this serial killer.

For a woman who is used to walking red carpets and gracing magazine covers, she really becomes an ugly, badly-damaged woman hooking along lonely highways. There isn't a false note in any single frame of this movie. She deserved the Academy Award, that's for sure.

From what I've seen in the documentaries about Aileen Wornos, this film humanizes her more, shifts a little away from her mental illness, and makes Christina Ricci's character more attractive, although it keeps her betrayal of Aileen at the end.

This is a sad, frightening story about women on the outside and the lengths they'll go to find love and acceptance in a dark and horrible world. Even cold-blooded murder.


One of the most haunting movies I've ever seen
2009-09-30 - Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R3H4SAED05RTIF

MOST OUTSTANDING DISPLAY
2009-09-16 - THIS MOVIE IS AN OUTSTANDING DISPLAY OF SOMEONE WHO ALL THEY WANTED WAS TO BE LOVED BY SOMEONE. FOR WHAT SHE DID FOR HER FRIEND SHOWS NO MERCY AS TO WHY SHE DID WHAT SHE DID. THIS IS AN AWESOME MOVIE AND I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT TO ANYONE THAT LIKES TRUE CRIME STORIES.

Blu-ray Version Don't Buy This!
2009-09-10 - I like this film, but the Blu-ray disc is so substandard that it is hard to organize all the negative thoughts I have about it. The general video quality is virtually the same as the standard def version...non of the qualities you associate with HD show up on this disc. The dark scenes are just horrid. The audio is poor and severely out of sync with the picture...in some cases about one second off. If you own the standard def version, do not think the Blu-ray is an upgrade, it is not. Having tried to watch this (and being irritated by it) I would not bother to rent it. I own over 300 Blu-ray discs and this is absolutely the worst. I'm sending it back to Amazon for a refund

Blu-Ray Version
2009-09-06 - I recently purchased the Blu-Ray version of MONSTER and it wasn't good. The dark scenes are horrible which makes it have this grainy look on it. The scenes in the day time are great though. The thing that i absolutely hated was that there is no SCENE SELECTIONS! you have to fast forward throughout the movie. This version needs a lot of work to be a high quality Blu-Ray version