Evil Genius: The True Story of America's Most Diabolical Bank Heist

While it's a fascinating story, I'm not convinced that anyone involved was ever a genius. We keep getting told how smart these people were, but at the end of the day all of their plans failed spectacularly. I suppose 'Evil Delusion' would not be as catchy a title.

Very interesting story, told by idiots who think they are geniuses, the producer included.

Just one look into her eyes tells you everything.

Better than average. lol @ the annoyed, literal readings of the title. Y'all, titles are not necessarily to be taken as the authors' expressed opinions. Sometimes they're others' words, repurposed for a variety of reasons. This absolutely would not have been titled "Evil Genius" if Diehl-Armstrong hadn't used the phrase herself in denying she was one, and thus innocent. w/r/t to the late confessions, they're not "presented as fact"; the filmmakers are reasonably indicating their own partiality.

manipulative is not genius but fuuuuck

In the interest in dramatic development, it takes some liberties in its presentation and takes hard stances on what really happened even though the evidence is conflicting and open to different interpretations. Nonetheless, it is totally captivating and one of the more interesting studies of the criminal mind that you'll find.

This is the first true crime doc I've rated since listening to the podcast A Very Fatal Murder so I'll talk about that instead. A Very Fatal Murder may be the best true crime media made since The Thin Blue Line. Sure, Evil Genius is fine, but A Very Fatal Murder is a transcendent story about a murder that was very fatal. It was so deadly.

I had heard rave reviews about this true crime mini series but ultimately I found it to be a little underwhelming. So much of the longevity of the case appeared due to repeated failure of the various law departments to do their jobs properly, and many 'breaks' in the case occurred only when the criminals decided to confess. Also didn't like the way one individual was ultimately presented as innocent based on one dramatic late interview which directly contradicted an eye witness testimony.

77 (Me) - 75 (IMDB)

I'm quite conflicted on this one because it's a crazy story that is fairly well presented for the most part but it shoots itself in the foot when it makes a couple of extremely poor decisions, and it comes off as rather tasteless and even morally reprehensible in crucial moments, including the ending.