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Citizen X
Movie:
Citizen X is an HBO original movie starring Stephen Rea and Donald Sutherland and is based on the true story of one of the most savage serial killers in history. Set in communist Russia during the early eighties, the new police forensic scientist Viktor Burakov (Rea) is brought a badly decomposed body that was found buried in a field. He orders the field searched and the police find seven more bodies – all of which are horribly mutilated and disfigured from numerous stab wounds. Burakov then searches through his predecessor's files and finds seven similar cases. He presents his findings to the board, is put in charge by Colonel Felisou (Sutherland), and made lead detective. Burakov interviews the victims' families and discovers that all of the victims took the trains, which is the only similarity. He has them staked out, but with the few men at his command, he turns up nothing. He approaches the board with four requests: more men, computers to enter information about the case into, make the case public in order to get any witnesses and to increase awareness, and for a meeting with the FBI special task force assigned to serial murders. All are denied. A year later with no results and six more bodies, someone else is called in to lead the investigation. Burakov, while staking out a train station on his own, captures a suspect who he believes is his man. He is forced by the board to let him go, however, as the man is a communist party member in good standing. Burakov approaches a psychiatrist (Max von Sydow) for help in making a profile, which he gets. Even with this new insight into the mind of the killer, it is not until the political changes in 1990 when the board is eliminated that the case takes a turn for the better. Colonel Felisou is made a General and is the sole director remaining on the board. He grants Burakov's four previous requests, and they set about together to track down and capture the killer for good.
I found Citizen X to be quite suspenseful just knowing that all this really happened. Citizen X killed 52 people, most of which were under 17, in a period of eight years in Russia. The actors were all terrific, even though some got very little screen time (von Sydow in particular).
Picture:
Citizen X is presented in 1.33:1 full frame. The colors are vibrant and flesh tones are accurate; however, the picture does seem to flicker some throughout the film, and some shimmer is also present.
Sound
Citizen X is presented in either English Dolby Surround 2.0 or Spanish Mono 1.0. The 2.0 surround track was quite impressive with lots of instances of surround. The dialogue was crisp and clean throughout the film.
Extras
For extras, you get: seven cast and crew bios, subtitles in French and Spanish, and captions in English.
Summary:
Citizen X was a very well done movie about the terrifying true story of a serial killer. Those interested in the subject matter should give it a try – Recommended.
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