The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst

This sucked *blinks hard several times*

Highly fascinating, yet unethical, self-serving, and misleading. The director acts obtuse (just like they did in Catfish) about obvious facts in order to make the story so perfectly compelling and formulaic. From episode 1: 'Well he certainly doesn't look like a killer. He could be a librarian for all we know!' (http://i.imgur.com/QjLPhLq.jpg) Are you fucking kidding me? He looks like he eats babies for sport. Being in his "friendly" presence made you shit your pants Jarecki.

Exceptionally entertaining true crime mini-series by 'Capturing the Friedmans' director Andrew Jarecki. It's a story which truly is, as the well-known saying goes, a whole lot stranger than fiction (how, even with all the money in the world, did RD get off Scot-free in Texas?!). The fantastic credit sequence is as cool as they come, and the sensational payoff, putting a nothing short of bone-chilling end to the last episode, was perfect. In a way almost too perfect. Beat that, 'Serial' Season 2!

Oh yes, some great sleazy true crime. The story of Durst is sickeningly fascinating (and his constant obvious lying is a part of this fascination), but the larger story of the insidious nature of economic privilege is the frame of this narrative. The amount of misinformation surrounding his wife's death, and the shoddy police work, can only be the result of some larger force (which is hinted at, because it can never be proven).

Horror...horror has a face. That face blinks a lot, apparently.

A few of the episodes are fantastic, and the payoff is incredible. However, the final episode could've been cut to about 20 minutes and combined with the previous one. Other low points: Jarecki's facial hair is distracting, and Jarecki inserts himself into the story more than necessary. Also, likely unethical. "Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible."

Well-made, entertaining tale, but ultimately how you feel about it depends on whether you enjoy seeing "the guilty" get their comeuppance. For myself, that someone does very bad things doesn't mean I necessarily gain much pleasure from seeing him trapped by his misplaced trust in a filmmaker wielding camera and microphone, even if it is ultimately his own hubris that ensured his downfall, for how not to be conscious that the filmmaker is hypocritically exploiting those crimes as much as anyone?

Rarely do you get the chance to see a psychopath as charming. He's part genius part lunatic. His lapses into saying things and doing things he absolutely should not do lest he be caught, and talking to himself at times are chilling. An amazing watch. The polar opposite of Making a Murderer.

It's only this low because of the dubious ethics behind Jarecki's withholding of information so he could be the one to confront Durst. That is pretty sleazy. But, prior to the last episode, this is an incredibly engaging and expertly made (editing, shooting, sound) and is a very well told tale of chilling true crime and the potential ills of bottomless wealth from a young age.

Put this off for a while because I knew about the ending before I started. Even with that, it was still fantastic. The interviews with Durst are definitely the highlight; they provide, in a very strange and roundabout way, an honest look into his mind.

Avoid spoilers and watch it!

Spoiler: Every time he blinks he's lying.

Really well-put-together and interesting portrait, with a cathartic conclusion.

The interviews with Robert Durst and the details of his case are fascinating but it's the ending that makes it all worthwhile.

Robert Durst was able, because of his immense wealth and elite social standing, to basically wander through his mid-late life murdering people. That this hugely entertaining series ultimately brought about his downfall is a testament to its sheer power.

Unlike John Mulaney I didn't find Robert Durst compelling. A rich white man "getting away with murder" is pretty common.

Great concept of storytelling through the documentary. Never heard of these cases before stepping into this and I must say I liked how they start from the beginning and gradually let the whole story goes without rushing. Durst on his own really intriguing persona, looks like perfect example of real life lunatic genius, really polarizing persona. Last 2 minutes are thrilling. All in all, fantastic documentary stuff.

It delves slowly into the different important moments, and can get a bit tedious at times... but it is all worth it in the end! The finale is one of the finest TV episodes of all time.

tv mantığı, bölüm sonu kıyıda bırakmalar, ucuz "gerçek kesit" görselleştirme çekimleri... ilk 4 bölüm düzgünce tasarlanmış izlenimi verirken 5. ile birlikte yapım ekibi ve kendi süreçlerini anlatmaya başlıyor. sadece belgeselin ritmi şaşmıyor, zaman çizelgesi de şaşıyor. karakter kesinlikle cezbedici ama sansasyonellik ve bundan kar etmeye çalışma rahatsız edici. belgeselcilik adına kötü bir örnek, daha çok akbabalık. ama hikayeyi buradan öğrenince..

Not the great true crime doco I was lead to believe it was going to be. The last two episodes are really something, with the final scene being downright haunting, but everything before it is presented too messily. What makes this so appealing as a true crime exposé, perhaps not so weirdly, is Durst himself. He's a compelling, other-worldly, and, from a very particular angle, sympathetic subject, which is more than can be said for Jarecki's egotistical last episode self-insertion.

Every documentarist has got to be jealous of this series' ending.

One of the few films/miniseries/shows that I actively feel the need to recommend people to watch. As I know horrible people who watch true crime shows all day will even find this unnerving and completely captivating. Just gets stronger each episode and Robert Durst is an absolute monster.

Bad title--he refers to himself as a jinx at one point, but he's not a jinx...he's a sociopath. Fascinating but flawed true-crime doc. Great story and interviews, but oy--such shitty pacing. It's too damn slow, padded to death with all manner of endless establishing shots. The story could have been told in two-thirds the time. If I saw one more LONG, moody shot of the present-day Katonah Metro North station--meant to evoke his wife's disappearance--I was going to throw something at the screen.

Generally very good; I am somewhat troubled by the misleading timeline of the final act.

A disturbing true crime doco, which is like a televisual version of the Serial podcast series. Starts a bit slow, brutal but slow, but if you allow yourself to become invested in the characters then you'll undoubtedly get something out of watching the complete series. What that something is is probably person to person dependent. I felt a mixture of fascination and disgust, but I'll keep the reasons (and spoilers) to myself.

An extensive documentary about one of the biggest criminal tools in U.S. history. Somehow I cannot help myself but thinking this film has been manipulated quite a bit, but perhaps that is the way to go these days. Jarecki has delivered another profound docu and for that I applaud him. An interesting watch, but could have been made shorter. The killer? Occam's razor is right in this one (and usually is)

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Although it's an american we-tell-you-what-to-think tv documentary type of movie, the story itself is fascinating, and the ending is EXCEPTIONAL!

Wow, that ending

Completely jarring and has an ending that is so perfectly unnerving that all you can really say is "holy shit." When he gets caught talking to himself while still mic'd up the first time you see how truly effortless it is from him to go into a lie and then obviously the second time he forgets he's mic'd is one of the craziest things ever. Every episode is better than the last and it really transcends into greatness in episode 4. Yeah, it's a bit sleazy but really effective filmmaking.

The 1st, 5th and 6th episodes are awesome, especially the very end; the 2nd, 3rd and 4th could have been an hour combined.

Great documentary mini-series about an enigmatic serial killer. Covers all the bases expected - in some detail too - with a final episode 'twist' that both involves the filmmaker directly and has a huge impact on the case itself. Incredible more for the lack of police interest shown at the time of the murders (why no handwriting analysis before??). The wealth and involvement of his family is touched upon more than once, but further investigation here is the glaring omission to this piece.

This is a 6 part documentary about an unsolved murder case involving the very Rockefeller-like media magnate Robert Durst. There was also a very ignorable Ryan Gosling movie loosely based on his story called All Good Things. Avoid that one and watch this.

Together with Making a Murderer this forms the Ying and the Yang of the American justice system. And unlike Making a Murderer the ending of this documentary sent chills down my spine. It wasn't until the last 10 seconds till I finally realized who Robert Durst reminded me off all the time. A real life Smeagol.

My father REALLY loved this docu-series. I'm not really into true crime, so it was just okay for me.

This was more chilling then any horror film I've seen recently! I kept check my back just to make sure Robert Durst wasn't standing behind me with a gun! Unbelievable story. One couldn't make things like this up. Durst is the real script writer and director of his downfall. The man is old a frail. He just wanted to write the final chapter of his life himself before it was too late. And nobody could have told it better then the man himself - Robert Durst.