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Hey Crab Man. Hey Earl. These two sentences have more plot and are more exciting than anything you will see in this movie. Were it not for the fact that this is based on a true story and someone was actually killed it would be funny. The camera work was done by someone who seems to think that every shot must fill the frame with a face so close to the camera that you can actually smell the mediocrity. In one shot the director seems to have gone out of his way to fill whatever space was left around the actors bulbous face with a plain white background. You can imagine him shouting "A little more to the left! It doesnt work unless there is absolutely NOTHING behind him!" This does nothing to distract from riveting dialogue such as when the female victim tells her love interest "I want to see you again" to which he replies, "Alright" and leaves.

The best part of the whole movie was the drug peddling townie loser, who I hope to God was actually baked out of his mind to have spent this much energy on this piece of crap and that he no longer remembers making it.

I rated this two stars only because for the first 15 minutes I couldn't stop laughing at the poor production value of this made as a high school project movie. The other 75 minutes were like a prostate exam only without the feeling that you did something good for yourself when it was over.

I read the reviews before I watched this, and thought, really, nothing could be this bad. I was wrong, they were right. Slow, predictable, and uneven. Almost comedic in its poor performance. At one point I thought this was a spoof.

I give it 2 out of 10, as it is watchable, to a degree.

The storyline is simple and predictable. The acting is, well, average and in some cases it is very obvious the cast doing the acting have had little acting experience.

The ending of the movie was pretty poor indeed. There was no conclusion, no follow up and gave the impression the producers thinking ' OK, lets wrap this up, I've had enough. '.

Maybe, just maybe, a once watched, never wanting to watched it again movie.

WOWSERS, I just joined IMDB to review this, I can not beleive Netflix bought this piece of garbaaaage. You know how in movies sometimes an actor is actually portraying an actor, and they intentionally need to make their acting look bad and as if they are reading a script with the wrong inflections, etc. Well that's what this movie sounds like over and over again, as if the actors were trying to sound as if they were bad actors, like the are pissed at the producer for the horrible scripts and want to make this a flop. I almost wonder if this film is intentionally trying to be the biggest worst movie ever just so people will share it as the disaster it is, like Sharknado or something. The script and story line though, soooo bad.

Acting? Plot? The dead tuna was the best actor in the whole movie.

I thoroughly enjoyed the well researched and insightful ABC News Podcast - A Killing on the Cape. (ABC News also produced a bit less enjoyable, less insightful two hour TV version)

This movie has a lot of moxie claiming to be based on a true story. Christa Worthington was murdered IRL and is the victim in this monstrosity of a movie but that's where the connection to the true story ends.

The acting is atrocious, the production pathetic and the writing (uh, where's my alliterative thesaurus?) just wrong ... My wife wisely gave up ten minutes in. But I was intrigued as to how many Elegis does it take to make a movie. Different folks with that surname were crammed into the credits or maybe the same folks wearing different hats.

The investigative podcast - A KILLING on the Cape - consisted of 7 episodes, each around 40 minutes. This allowed plenty of time to delve into the backgrounds of the main and tangential figures in the investigation.

MURDER on the Cape focuses exclusively on the relationship of Christa and the ex-fisherman and totally ignores almost all the elements of the real case. So not only is it bad, it's also disingenuous. And yes, as all the other reviews have pointed out, it's bad, really bad. Knowing much of the real story only makes it worse, much worse.

Finally, no disrespect to all the Elegis. They are probably fine people. Ms. Elegi used her own children in the move, IMDB notes. But maybe movie making isn't meant for them. Or at the very least, making movies based on real events.

I can´t believe this is actually a movie. First, the acting is so bad it hurts to watch. The main characters are not believable; Josh Walther has the looks but not the talent. There were instances were he was mumbling through his lines; it almost seemed like he was simply reading from the script. Jade Harlow was a different story. She seemed to worry about her lines and was not connecting at all with Josh. Finally the story... what happened to that fisherman collecting clams that suddenly was freezing to death?? what was the story behind the woman living by herself for 15 years and that neighbor? why did the sister in law sell Josh´s boat?? didn´t make sense at all.. to many facts and details of the story that were not coherent at all.

Please, take it off Netflix.

My family cannot forgive me for choosing this movie. The storyline was both slow and also rushed. It seems that there was no director in the movie and the actors took turns to film different scenes themselves. Valuable data download was lost as we watched this whilst on holidays. There was obviously not much of a budget for this movie as the same clothes were constantly worn and the actors seemed to be random locals rather than professionals.

The camera would pan in and out of focus and the scenes would cut from one to another with no flow of the storyline.

It's such a shame as it sounded like a great storyline. I have never written a movie review in my life however felt it was imperative to warn people to not watch it. The only good thing about this movie was the way my family bonded over the terrible acting and directing.

P.S Don't forget to do a Where's Wally to find the one extra they could afford to pay that appears randomly in scenes.

My mind began drifting immediately. The writing is abysmal. The structure is kind of random. Quite possibly has the least talented actors ever assembled. The sound track is so banal, yet overblown.

This is bad. It's just horrid.

THE most pathetic film ever made. The acting was grade-school performance-esque, Actors were second-rate, at best. Story line was fragmented and really, really stupid. Looked like the director wanted to tell a story but didn't know how. Was it a budget problem? Time dilemma? Lack of knowledge? Please remove this piece of crap from Netfilx and bury the film canister in a very deep hole.

Having lived on Cape Cod when all thus happened it was just insane. I knew people directly connected to the story. They took it and ran with it. Lots of facts are definitely inaccurate but it's life. The acting is on point with people that live in town. Some I know all to well. Watch it and take it with a grain of salt.

I'm not sure if they hired mentally handicapped people as some kind government program or they just stumbled across a bunch of locals fresh off a paint huffing binge but I don't think anyone in front of the camera is a professional actor. No, seriously. There are at least 3 cast members on drugs or they have OCD.

The writing is awful, the plot makes zero sense, the characters' behavior is unrelated from scene to scene. And through it all the sound track is the same Lifetime movie sad piano. No matter what is going on. I'm not even sure there WAS a director.

Maaaaan! I AM LITERALLY IN TEARS rt now reading these reviews!!! Because this movie is so horrible until I found it entertaining, I had to keep watching it!!! THIS.WAS. SO. BAD.

Did the lifetime channel hire Tommy Wiseau to wreck this smorgasbord of garbage? I think it may have been wriiten by Megan Fox. The philosophy is trite, the acting horrific, the script reads like a twitter rage between the members of a teenage love triangle, the soundtrack is muzak, the cinematography is all shot from the same tripod setting, and the story stumbles along like a poisoned man. Can we put this movie on one of Elon Musk's rockets and fire it into the sun. Apparently it is based on true events and if that is the case it is a repugnant insult to any real victim of a crime. Seriously, I feel sick.

If Egeli was trying to make a movie based on Christa Worthington, then he only got half of the story right! 1. Christa had a baby girl, 2. this all happened in Truro not Provincetown (which I know they changed the name of the town), 3. "Mike Luna" was supposed to be an older man with grown children and grandchildren, and 4. The guy next door was actually her ex boyfriend. The list goes on and on. This movie was a total train wreck. My family literally laughed through the whole thing. The actors were HORRIBLE. And who uses their own kids in a movie anyways??? If I didn't know the real story, I probably would of liked it (I said probably). Mr. Egeli needs to stick with his day job (being an artist) and give up the movie business. So if you want a good laugh then I suggest you watch this piece of crap!

I learned that they still make bad movies. I also learned that there are actual Shellfish Wardens. Well paid in fact, but it requires a college degree, a bunch of experience, so being handed a jacket and hat is just a bit too unrealistic. The actress who played Mrs. Luna is apparently the director's wife. Mau maybe they needed an extra. Oh, and someone mentioned the kid wearing a Giants hat. That is actually a New York Islanders hat.

I got about ten minutes into this film...quite possibly the worst ten minutes of screen time, ever. Appalling acting, horrendous script - even visually insipid. 0 stars from me. Why, Netflix, why?!!

Netflix have been putting on some excellent movies. However this is simply awful with some of the worst acting I've ever seen The dialogue is beyond bad and you are hypnotized by how unbelievably cringing this film is. Having just seen 3 Billboards and watched brilliant actors it's hard to believe these actors are in the same profession

Only one redeeming value...the fact that Provincetown MA is the beautiful backdrop setting for this abysmal waste of film. I can only imagine the conversation that took place as the genesis for this movie. Friends sitting around a dining room table. "Hey how about a road trip to Cape Cod!"; "Great idea. I love it"; "Hell, yeah"; "So what are we going to do down there?"; "I know this great place we can stay in Provincetown. And, get this, we'll make a movie"; "Really? About what?"; "Remember that murder in Truro?"; "Wow, that's a depressing subject"; "Wait, we don't know how to make a movie?"; "Hey I got dibs on the stoner guy role"; "Hilarious!"; "Just might be...."

One other point, a lot of reviews mentioned this supposed movie as equivalent of a Lifetime movie. That's doing a disservice to Lifetime. Even during their movies, they stop playing the incessant background music.

BTW, a good drinking game is how many times "boat" is mentioned. Guaranteed you'll be toasted within 10 to 20 minutes.

This movie was so bad, that it makes you think possibly it was on purpose. Napoleon Dynamite was so dumb and ridiculous, that it was hilarious, however that was totally intentional. Murder on the cape is only bearable to watch because the horrendous acting turns it into a total cartoon making it absolutely hysterical, and you start to wonder if its intentionally bad or they literally hired the cast from a halfway house in south boston. No contest, this is the worst movie of all time, nothing even comes close. Either the CEO of Neflix's nephew was the producer of this movie or whoever was in charge of selecting movies to add to netflix was strung out on heroine.

A fabulous film about a Clam Sheriff and how he maintains law and order in a peaceful seaside fishing village until one day, unexpectedly, a film crew suddenly arrive and commit one of the worst atrocities in American film history. I was riveted to my seat until the credits started rolling (for safety reasons) I didn't want to soil the cushion during the performance.

Hey Egeli's what's next "Who Barbecued Bambi?" The Musical? No seriously, it was good fun. I have learnt a lot about what not to do if I ever make a film of one of my books. This film will be talked about for years.

Where do I start? The horrendous writing? I would give examples of the unbelievable dialog, but just about every line in this movie is beyond bad. The direction? What direction? The acting? This has to be the only movie ever made where every actor is beyond abysmal. Let me put it this way, the best actor in the movie is the old crone that sits on her porch giving everyone the evil eye...because she has no lines. Besides the lack of talent, most of the actors are as unattractive as they come. You may plan on watching this to see how long it will take before you decide you can't watch another minute of this dreck, but you will want to watch it to the bitter end because it just keeps getting worse. One has to wonder how a movie like this gets made, much less why someone would pay to watch it. And now for the REAL bad news. One of the last lines is 'This chapter of your life is over.'. Do I smell a sequel or is that the septic tank backing up?