Monster
Based on the life of Aileen Wuornos, a Daytona Beach prostitute who was executed in Florida in 2002 for killing six men in the late 1980s and early 1990s only to take their money and car.
7 May 1939, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
29 March 1942, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
1 September 1933, Los Angeles, California, USA
4 June 1936, Chicago, Illinois, USA
9 November 1979, Montgomery, Alabama, USA
December 26, 2010
Powerful, painful for mature audiences only.
May 04, 2010
The film's worth seeing for Charlize Theorn's stunning performance, based on complete physical and psychological transformation, but as a dramatic feature, it lacks an interesting perspective and is underpopulated in terms of characters.
January 16, 2004
Brutal, brilliant, depressing and riveting.
April 29, 2009
Theron is the most convincing actress to play Aileen Wuornos ever and really dives into the role...
January 16, 2004
If the film is a bit too soft on its subject, it is even more taken with its leading lady. Theron overwhelms.
January 16, 2004
In the same way the beefed-up Theron fills the movie's tightly composed frames to bursting while pushing everything else to the margins, her showstopping rage blows through film like a tornado.
January 16, 2004
The hype around the film Monster is justified by the performance of Charlize Theron.
January 16, 2004
A small movie with a gigantic performance by Charlize Theron.
October 12, 2010
By "Monster's" end, nothingness replaces Aileen Wuornos' ferocity - evidence of exhaustive efforts from Patty Jenkins and Oscar-winner Charlize Theron to emphasize this serial killer's fraying sanity, not her crimes' sensationalism.
July 18, 2008
Theron makes Aileen realistically frightening and unreachable at times. Murder in her hands is certainly not cool.
January 21, 2004
Ms. Theron has ventured far beyond mere surface impersonation -- although that is startling enough -- to an insightful penetration of her subject's psyche.
May 11, 2009
Charlize Theron gives her finest performance yet in the unlikely role of serial killer Aileen Wuornos in this riveting depiction of the Florida prostitute's decent into madness.
