This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

None of this script/film makes any sense. Want a second opinion? It's boring too. Some beautiful cinematography does not make up for a story and story structure that is complicated just to hid the fact of how stupid the entire premise is. There is not one character in this whole thing that you can care about. It is as if the writer, director, producer were just trying to get in elements they thought would sell. Yes, it cost plenty to make this piece of garbage. The previous reviewer who thought this was low budget has to be wrong. To make something this stupid look good takes some real production bucks. Don't waste your time watching this. There have to be better things you can do with your 2 hours.

Unfortunately, Sciorra, Pardue, and Leigh Cook would have been better served to make an adult film. I feel especially bad for Sciorra. If you happen to be reading this and you are a lovely, intelligent Italo-American female considering a move at professional acting in the film and television industry, be glad that you're spared the quandary of the Sporano's audition -that type of career suicide ended with episode 20, season 7. You might still end up in the same career place as Drea DeMateo and Annabella Sciorra, pretending not hear the cell phone blasting off in your pocket (which was never cut out of the shoot) as you blow an episode of Apeture on the Voom HD channel (the former) or "filming" an entirely unoriginal quasi experimental piece of video like American Crime in the hills of LA (Sciorra, the later). But hey, nevertheless at least you ARE working, right? There are a few vaguely interesting shots here and there, but, assuming you are not an aspiring director of softcore, American Crime, beyond the opening credits, is not an effort the average consumer of art films is interested in consuming. Also, don't expect your kids to watch this picture without putting themselves at risk for developing a lofty idea about making a bad and unnecessary movie with the prosumer video equipment you bought to tape their after-school soccer games.If you're interested in how video can achieve successful images in a feature length film check out: Sex Lies and Video Tape, Able Ferrara's, The New Rose Motel and Dangerous Game, Wayne Wang's, The Center of the World, (the lead in which is brilliantly played by the venerable Peter Sarsgaard and is shot entirely in video, before it was blown up to 35mm), Tesis, and Lance Weiler's, The Last Broadcast (this film plays and looks great, and I don't think it was ever transfered to a film print at all). In any one of those movies, you'll discover all the ideas you find in American Crime only better executed with more adequate visuals and sounds.

This is a great movie for what it is. The story I like, the docu-cam feel helps, RLC is in it and she's looking well, shame she's gone blonde.The highlight of the film, and why I like it so much is Cary Elwes... his part in this was great, the comic relief of watching him lose it is fantastic, he does go over the top, but not as much as he did in Saw which, I liked him in.No to give away any thing from the end, but I liked the fact that the whole film wasn't 100% explained... much better than a crazy yeah dumb twist like in Saw.for a lighthearted horror with toned down gore and a peeping tom killer then give it a go. If not then rent out Red Eye that was also a great show.Enjoy the show!

Well, I joke, but this really wasn't that bad of a movie, especially in the made-for-TV market. Cary Elwes' performance alone is worth sitting through the film. His quirky, neurotic documentarian wanna-be character is fun to watch, and you spend the first several minutes saying to yourself, "He looks a LOT like Cary Elwes, but..." The rest of the cast is solid if unremarkable, and the scenes that are supposed to be creepy are indeed so. What I liked about the ending was that it didn't tie everything up into a neat little package and drop it into our mail slot as the murderer did with his videotapes. The only thing you're sure of at the end is who WASN'T the murderer, because all the prime suspects are either incarcerated or dead...or are they? It's a fun twist on the murder mystery, with stories within stories, and the whole thing framed by documentary-style monologues and interviews.