No Man of God

Name: No Man of God
Genre: Biography, Drama, Mystery, Crime
Released: August 27, 2021
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 67
Cast: Aleksa Palladino, Christian Clemenson, Elijah Wood, Emily Berry, Gilbert Owuor

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RLJE Films | Release Date: August 27, 2021 | Not Rated

Starring: Aleksa Palladino, Christian Clemenson, Elijah Wood, Emily Berry, Gilbert Owuor, Hugo Armstrong, Luke Kirby, Mac Brandt, Robert Patrick, Will Harris

Summary: In 1980, Ted Bundy was sentenced to death by electrocution. In the years that followed, he agreed to disclose the details of his crimes, but only to one man. No Man of God is based on the true story of the strange and complicated relationship that developed between FBI agent Bill Hagmaier and an incarcerated Ted Bundy in the years leadingIn 1980, Ted Bundy was sentenced to death by electrocution. In the years that followed, he agreed to disclose the details of his crimes, but only to one man. No Man of God is based on the true story of the strange and complicated relationship that developed between FBI agent Bill Hagmaier and an incarcerated Ted Bundy in the years leading to Bundy's execution.… Expand

Director: Amber Sealey

Genre(s): Biography, Drama, Mystery, Crime

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 100 min

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Lorry Kikta

Jun 20, 2021

The script for this film is absolutely incredible. Read full review

Martyn Conterio

Sep 5, 2021

No Man of God sets out to demystify serial killers and achieves its aim. Read full review

Natalia Keogan

Aug 31, 2021

No Man of God ultimately benefits from a woman helming a story about Bundy, as it provides nuance to even the ancillary female presence in the killer’s circle, particularly when he actually confessed to his deeply misogynistic crimes. Read full review

The Film Stage Christian Gallichio

Jun 19, 2021

Sealey’s film may not add up to a fully realized and coherent film, she has nevertheless made an engrossing feature that recontextualizes Bundy not as the alluring psychopath, but as a profoundly desperate figure, who craves attention. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

Jun 19, 2021

Individual moments are gripping, and Kirby’s performance puts its queasy hooks in you, but the film, overall, has a scattershot momentum until the last act, set in 1989, when Bundy is about to be executed. Read full review

Robert Abele

Aug 27, 2021

No Man of God may have been written by a man, but you can’t help feeling the reason this umpteenth examination of a modern devil works as well as it does is because, as a woman, Sealey knows where the exploitation traps are and avoids them by focusing on the people in her frame, their exchanges well-paced by editor Patrick Nelson Barnes. Read full review

Mark Hanson

Aug 23, 2021

As an exploration of the misogyny that drove Bundy’s crimes, Amber Sealey’s film mostly falls short of its potential. Read full review

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Stephanie18

Aug 28, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Wow !!! What a movie. I would like to congratulate Elijah Wood and Luke Kirby for their amazing job. Thanks to Amber who showed us the real Ted Bundy. This is the only movie of Ted that I love.… Expand

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JLuis_001

Sep 16, 2021

This is a film focused on acting.
Its two main actors; Elijah Wood and Luke Kirby are the center of attention, although of course relying on the fixation that cinema has for Ted Bundy.
Therefore despite having a slightly more focused nuance, the film cannot avoid feeding on the Bundy's myth,This is a film focused on acting.
Its two main actors; Elijah Wood and Luke Kirby are the center of attention, although of course relying on the fixation that cinema has for Ted Bundy.
Therefore despite having a slightly more focused nuance, the film cannot avoid feeding on the Bundy's myth, because what makes the film attractive is that it deals with a men like him.

Would it be the same with an unknown murderer? Doubtful.

If you like this movie you should watch Mindhunter on Netflix. A superior approach into the subject, not Bundy though.… Expand

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Ralfbergs

Mar 28, 2022

Acting was good but thats about it for me. I mean I saw recently the movie which portrayed more about Bundy and what happened, plus saw other things about the topic and after all that this one felt quite bland. Of course it depicted more the process afterwards, but for me the movie felt tooActing was good but thats about it for me. I mean I saw recently the movie which portrayed more about Bundy and what happened, plus saw other things about the topic and after all that this one felt quite bland. Of course it depicted more the process afterwards, but for me the movie felt too boring mostly.… Expand

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Mauro_Lanari

May 13, 2022

(Mauro Lanari)
I did not expect anything at the level of "Capote" (Miller 2005), but not even a film reduced to an interminable dialogue between two who have essentially nothing of the "profiler" and "serial killer". The acting performances go around in circles.

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