Why Did You Kill Me?
The line between justice and revenge blurs when a devastated family uses social media to track down the people who killed 24-year-old Crystal Theobald.
- Released: 2021-04-14
- Runtime: 83 minutes
- Genre: Crime, Documentaries
- Stars: Belinda Lane
- Director: Fredrick Munk
Comments
- alindsayal - 23 December 2021
A below Average Dull Documentary
This documentary made its way to Netflix this week and with its short run time I thought I would give Why Did You Kill Me? A watch and here is my review for it. The premise of the film sees a family use social media to attempt to track down who killed a member of their family.
Onto the good bits and that is that the film is pretty well paced, usually I want quite a bit of time spent to understand all the aspects of a doc but this one really only needed 80 minutes and that made it an easy watch in terms of its runtime.
It was also pretty cool to see the actual footage of the police interviews with the suspects. It feels very authentic and it just adds a sense of realism and intrigue as you see the different people getting interviewed.
But the rest of it is a bit of a mess. The issue is that pretty much everybody involved is unlikeable. The film wants you to care about the victims family but they all come across as truly terrible people and it just feels like I kind of waisted my time.
Also, it's something I have mentioned before but this just doesn't feel like something that needed a documentary. Obviously, somebody getting killed in terrible but the whole thing isn't that absurd, the use of social media is common place these days and I think this would have been way more impactful had it come out closer to the event though that was not possible.
Overall, Why Did You Kill Me? Didn't do much for me and I think it isn't gonna be one of those big documentaries. If the premise interests you then give it a go but other then that I really wouldn't bother.
Rating - 4/10. - mariusbv-35612 - 6 May 2021
A Touching Real Life Story
This is a well-done real life whodunit and speaks volumes about this particular segment of society where things seem to be pretty much out-of-control. However, it's a good feeling to find out that justice is still possible for loved ones that we've lost in this terrible war between good and evil.
