OMG, there are so many anachronisms and incongruities in this movie that it's just IMPOSSIBLE to enjoy! This was made in England, and it seems like no one involved with the movie had ever even been to the USA. Let's break it down...
Incongruities / mistakes:
1. Crime scene tape is not white and blue in the US, it's suppose to be black and yellow.
2. We have door knobs over here, not door handles.
3. Police officials don't hold press conferences sitting down behind a rickety class room table in the US, they have a podium, or will possible hold the press conference outside the police building.
4. We don't have heat radiators in our individual offices. Offices have central heating.
5. The radiators in the detective's home are also distinctly British.
6. Several UK power outlets and light switches are visible thought out the movie. Jesus Christ you guys, how lazy are you??
7. The police wouldn't arrest a notorious serial killer with just two guys with handguns and no bulletproof vests.
8. Main character's badge looks like something you buy off of eBay for a costume party.
Anachronisms / incorrect time:
1. In there very first scene at the bar there is a text plate stating it's 1978, but there's Electronic Dance Music (EDM) playing in the bar. In 1978?? WTF??
2. The detective's computer is about almost 10 years to new for the time frame.
3. Police car outside the bar where the cops meet is probably 40(!) years to new! It's a brand new contemporary car, for christ's sake!
4. They didn't have HDTV or 3D motion graphics in news shows in the early 80s.
5. Ted Bundy's hair is all wrong. It looks like a modern haircut, which of course it is.
6. When we jump forward to 1989, the TV cameras are too new. They're just normal contemporary cameras. And again, contemporary cars are seen.
And then we get to the absolutely ridiculous American accents the actors put on. They're NOT EVEN CLOSE to sounding American. They sound like walking cliches of what a European might think an American sounds like, based off of 3 movies. This alone makes impossible for me to judge whether they're just horrible C-grade actors, or if they could possibly act if they got to stick to British English.
But the biggest problem--it's cardinal sin--is that it's just plain BORING!
I'm giving it a 2 since I guess technically it's not the absolute worst movie I've ever seen. But NOT MANY are worse. Stay away!
