Monster

Pros: Excellent acting, highly unconventional subject matter.
Cons: Nothing really.

I watched Monster along with my husband and a friend. Our friend picked us up in his car, and while going to the theater we were a chatty lot, talking about this and that. After watching the movie, on our way back the same journey was completed in ...

Pros: Theron, Ricci, Jenkins's script and direction
Cons: May be hard to sympathize with the title character

The life of Aileen Wuornos was a life that was never very pleasant. "Monster," which stars Charlize Theron as Wuornos, is the portrait of an abused woman who snaps and goes on a killing spree that eventually led to her arrest, and, in 2002, her ...

Pros: Well done movie about prostitution, murder and lesbians.
Cons: Foul language, but it is essential to the story.

Ever been a prostitute? Neither have I. Never been a lesbian either. Either one must be a difficult life to live. Prostitutes can be treated as the scum of the earth, yet society expects them to have socially acceptable behavior aside from their sex ...

Pros: absolutely riveting, true story; acting; music
Cons: well, it is tragic

Aileen: "Love conquers all." "Every cloud has a silver lining." "Faith can move mountains." "Love will always find a way." "Everything happens for a reason." "Where there is life, there is hope." [laughs] Aileen: Oh, well... They gotta tell you ...

Pros: Theron's incredible performance, interesting storyline
Cons: Very graphic and disturbing to some, Ricci weak as Selby

Monster is the story of Aileen Wuornos, a prostitute from Florida who has served 12 years on death row and recently executed for brutally murdering 6 men, men who picked her up for sexual favors. Charlize Theron is transformed into ...

Pros: Charlize Theron's performance
Cons: Terrible scenes of violence that will make you wince and turn away

They say if you beat a puppy, it grows into a violent cur. By the time Monster begins, Aileen Wuornos is already a beast: when a friendly girl named Selby approaches her in a bar, Aileen recoils and rages like a dog that had once been beaten ...

Pros: A combustible lead performance, a solid supporting star, tight writing/direction.
Cons: You'll have to throw any previous pretenses out the window.

"It's not about false teeth. It's not about gaining 30 pounds. It's not about wearing contact lenses. After a while, you don't think of it. You try not to think about it. It's kind of like dancing: you don't go onstage thinking about the steps, you have ...

Pros: Theron's performance (duh); cinematography and direction.
Cons: Often weak script; falsehoods.

As a work of art, I know exactly what to think of Monster. It's a very brilliantly done film, with great acting, nearly perfect direction, and a pretty good script (though I wasn't feeling it so much towards the end). As something of moral value? ...

Pros: Almost unbelievable acting from Theron; gritty, realistic settings; easy listening soundtrack.
Cons: Some won't like: graphic violence, lesbian love, constant dirty talk. But, hey, it's her world.

I'm puzzled why this story and film has the title it has. Properly defined, monster means, among other things, a person who generates horror through the commission of wicked or evil deeds. Hence, that title sounds misplaced, I think, when considering ...

Pros: Theron's performance, which deserves all the accolades it has been getting.
Cons: VERY depressing.

Upon going to see "Monster", there was a certain level of fear on the part of this reviewer. Fear that the movie may attempt to portray real life serial killer Aileen Wuornos as a misunderstood heroine or worse, a comic book caricature. It is to the ...

Pros: Dynamic Acting from Charlize Theron. She is totally transformed into a monster of societies doings.
Cons: Story line could have gone a little deeper.

Monster. The real monster is not in the character Lee who is the main thrust in this dynamic film. The real Monster is society and what it can do to sensitive souls that are lost and seeking a way out of the story of their own existence. Charlize ...

Pros: Charlize Theron
Cons: Questionable message

Personally, I'm not a big fan of "based on a true story" movies. Most of them do not represent an accurate account of the depicted events, or the events are shown from only one point of view. I think this is also the case in this movie. The serial killer ...

Pros: Charlize Theron's performance is accurate enough to be frightening
Cons: Steamy love scenes, violence and foul language might put some viewers off

Aileen Wuornos was lesbian and a prostitute who went on to achieve notoriety as that rare bird called a female serial killer. (Serial killers are stereotypically men.) Charlize Theron took on the task of bringing Wuornos' actions to the big screen. ...

Pros: Good movie.
Cons: It has the Hollywood treatment of course.

Charlize Theron said in an interview with Oprah Winfrey that she didn’t think of Aileen Wuornos as a lesbian. She had sex with men without pay and had had relationships with men before her serial killing began. Rather than a lesbian, she was someone ...

Pros: Charlize Theron's haunting, revelatory performance
Cons: Weak, stereotypical love story; subject doesn't warrant biopic

"You'll never meet someone like me again," Aileen Wournos informs her paramour early in MONSTER. That's somewhat of an understatement. Audiences may never care to see another biopic of a serial killer again, especially one as problematic and ...