Unabomber - Disappointing and Shallow

I was curious about this one, but I expected some sort of psychological analysis, and... honestly, if that's what you're looking for, this isn't your movie.

Two Timelines

It starts well. We watch the FBI struggle to identify and catch the Unabomber (Jacob Tremblay) while following his first years in college, his relationship with his family, and how everything seems to build toward something.

He has many issues, and they all seem to feed his paranoia. Meanwhile, the agents are turning on each other, making accusations as they struggle to catch the terrorist. The tension keeps building.

Admiration Falls into Humiliation

Ted's relationship with the professor (Russell Crowe) is one of the movie's many creative liberties. It's not the worst one, but it leads us toward a simplified explanation of something much bigger and much more complicated.

He gets a big shock: he trusted the professor, who made Ted feel special, only to discover he was essentially a study subject in an ethically questionable experiment.

Right, but then what?

How would that make him build bombs? It's not a good enough reason.

This relationship and this betrayal do not explain everything that happened.

Schizophrenia

His brother (Matthew Kevin Anderson) refuses to see what's right in front of him. That's natural and understandable.

The revelation of Ted's schizophrenia doesn't explain what he did either. He clearly had delusional ideas and paranoia, but as an explanation for his actions, it feels weak.

In fact, the whole movie feels weak.

Interesting, Not Impressive

I'm not saying the movie isn't interesting. It has its moments. But by the end, all the tension that was built up seems to lead to nothing.

The problem is that could have been the most fascinating part, and what the movie seemed to promise us simply wasn't there.

The college timeline tells the viewer that we're going to get an explanation. And when we don't, that's one of the worst things you can do to your audience.

The most important part wasn't there.

How did everything begin? How did he make his decisions? What was the process behind building and planting his first bomb? Why did he do it?

We needed to see the decision-making process. That was the interesting part. But the movie largely ignores it.

There was so much left unsaid. So much more to explore. So many genuinely interesting questions that could have added depth to the story.

Instead, by the end, it feels like an incomplete work: a very superficial look at a very complicated man.

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