Review 797: Primetime
The film is based on the 2007 Esquire article Tonight on Dateline This Man will Die and is mainly set in 2006 and follows television presenter and journalist Chris Hansen (Robert Pattinson) who hosts the Dateline NBC reality series To Catch a Predator in which he conducts sting operations with the anti-pedophilia vigilante group Perverted-Justice to catch child predators. The show was a rating hit and despite disliking the show, NBC head Jeff Zucker (as himself) places it in the primetime slot pitting it against ABC's Lost . I was only peripherally aware of Chris Hansen and his reality show before seeing this film Documentary filmmaker Lance Oppenheim and screenwriter Ajon Sigh have managed to craft a into a riveting and engrossing thriller. while also capturing the saturated, pastel look of Network television from the 2000s the score by Ari Balouzian Robert Pattinson delivers a delightfully unhinged performance playing Chris Hansen Ove...
