The bulk of the film is a courtroom drama with flashbacks to what allegedly took place according to popular accounts of what really happened. There is no real evidence that Lizzie Borden took an axe or hatchet to her dad and stepmom, so the scenes with her "axing them up" was for the sake of the audience and legend.
The material is dark but so is the film's lighting. The darkness to the film's lighting is awful - well, it was filmed this way and it's really bad, distracting, unenjoyable to watch.
Montgomery was fine as Lizzie - she's a good actress. The rest of the cast is fine too. It's the film's dark lighting and overall drabness that bored me.
I'm one that found this film better when I was a kid watching it - I guess it was scary or something to me then. I should have left this one a memory but instead I re-watched all the years later to find it mainly a bore.
5/10
The material is dark but so is the film's lighting. The darkness to the film's lighting is awful - well, it was filmed this way and it's really bad, distracting, unenjoyable to watch.
Montgomery was fine as Lizzie - she's a good actress. The rest of the cast is fine too. It's the film's dark lighting and overall drabness that bored me.
I'm one that found this film better when I was a kid watching it - I guess it was scary or something to me then. I should have left this one a memory but instead I re-watched all the years later to find it mainly a bore.
5/10