Love Crime (2022) User Reviews

Jodi

[BandSAboutMovies · 4/10 · 19 July 2022]

Loosely inspired by the murder of Travis Alexander by his on-and-off-again lover, Jodi Arias, Love Crime takes place as Jodi is interrogated and remebers her relationship with the dead man through her own point of view. So if you love true crime, well...

This plays fast and loose with reality, as we see what happened and what Jodi thinks happened. You may be put off with the ethics of making a movie within a few years of an actual murder, but if you grew up in the 70s, you know the world of made for TV movies and exploitation films that explore what was in the headlines. We didn't have true cime TV just yet.

Director Nicole D'Angelo stars as Jodi with producer Shane Ryan-Reid as Travis. It was written by Jamie Grefe, who has also written two modern Emmanuelle movies. I was also excited to see Lisa London (Rocky from the Andy Sidars' movies Savage Beach and Guns) in the cast.

Very inaccurate

[nikkikellyparker · 3/10 · 27 December 2023]

I watched this whole trial back in 2013. I was hoping for some actual flashback pieces of footage of her interrogation & trial. It would have been nice had they followed the actual story of what really happened even though some of it was true. They could've done a lot more with it or even make a series of it. Travis never owned a gun, Jodi stabbed him in the chest on the shower floor, kept stabbing him another 27/28 times, as he tried to run she slit his throat & then shot him in the head with her own grandparents gun in which she had staged a robbery at their home to make it look as though the gun was stolen before visiting Travis for the last time.

She took several pics of him in the shower. She even dropped the camera & it took a pic of her pant leg. She then threw the camera into the washer.

Travis never made his trip to cancun he won through his job with Mimi. She later went to his home since she didn't hear from him, called his friends, they showed up & sadly all came across his body decaying in the shower.

Don't watch this garbage

[roevonboo · 1/10 · 26 July 2022]

This movie was horrible. From the acting to the actors to the entire storyline. Don't even bother. I was excited and I could tell within the first minute that this was going to be a terrible movie. Wasn't wrong.

Surprisingly artful

[a_marie_p · 7/10 · 28 July 2022]

The trailer for this was like a straightforward crime drama for TV, which looked fun and watchable though pretty basic. The outcome ended up being far more artful and meditative almost. The film could have used more (maybe a bloodier crime scene, considering the gruesomeness of the actual crime, maybe more nudity considering the number of kissing scenes on display, or maybe simply a decent running time - it's about just an hour long), but otherwise, for an indie production, this was a good watch. Above many of the other Cinema Epoch films.