When I started watching The Unbelievable Truth I was a little puzzled. As it continued to go on I thought I was being punked. I was completely baffled by the fact that I saw a 7.2/10 rating on iMDb, and a 3.7/5 rating on Letterboxd. So then I started exploring reviews, looking to see if this was some kind of cult classic that people think is so-bad-it's-good like The Room or Miami Connection. Yet there was sincerity in some of these reviews, so perhaps it flew completely over my head. I must be missing something, because even now, I cannot comprehend what it is that people actually like about this movie. Someone mentioned David Lynch in their review, and I wonder if that's an accurate comparison, because I also find his sense of humor completely incomprehensible. I never once found anything funny other than those moments that the film was so awkwardly bad that I was laughing at it.
The last time I saw acting as bad as The Unbelievable Truth was when I watched an episode of Best of the Worst on Redlettermedia's Youtube channel. Every line was like watching a really bad high school play. I started to feel a little embarrassed for the actors that they had to keep this going for almost 2 hours, and had to deliver terrible clunky lines that don't sound like normal humans. It's no surprise to me that Edie Falco is literally the only actor in the entire film who went on to have any notoriety at all. The plot, if you can call it that, was impossible for me to care about. An extremely irritating girl falling for a murderer over a long period of time isn't my idea of a good time. No two characters talked to each other like normal people, particularly when discussing the actual murders. To say I hated The Unbelievable Truth feels like an understatement. I can't even remember the last time I checked this frequently to see how much longer I had to watch.
The last time I saw acting as bad as The Unbelievable Truth was when I watched an episode of Best of the Worst on Redlettermedia's Youtube channel. Every line was like watching a really bad high school play. I started to feel a little embarrassed for the actors that they had to keep this going for almost 2 hours, and had to deliver terrible clunky lines that don't sound like normal humans. It's no surprise to me that Edie Falco is literally the only actor in the entire film who went on to have any notoriety at all. The plot, if you can call it that, was impossible for me to care about. An extremely irritating girl falling for a murderer over a long period of time isn't my idea of a good time. No two characters talked to each other like normal people, particularly when discussing the actual murders. To say I hated The Unbelievable Truth feels like an understatement. I can't even remember the last time I checked this frequently to see how much longer I had to watch.