Unabomber review: An incomplete, albeit perfectly watchable puzzle ...Middle East

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It was the biggest domestic terrorist manhunt in US history, and the perpetrator’s subsequent conviction and imprisonment spawned the expected slew of books attempting to drill deep into the mind of a murderer via no-stone-unturned biography.

Consequently, it often feels like two movies woven together, differentiated by distinct colour palettes (warm and oak-y browns for the fussiness of an Ivy League campus, colder blues for the procedural FBI investigations 30 years on).

For convenience’s sake, it’s perhaps best to examine the two separately, starting with the slightest and least satisfying; FBI agent Joanne Miller (Shailene Woodley) is convinced Kaczynski is the primary suspect, after the newspaper publication of his manifesto claiming technology was eroding free will prompts a call from his concerned brother and sister-in-law.

Viewers are already aware of questionable goings-on at Harvard at this point, through scenes introducing “Theodore” (an intense but subtle performance by Jacob Tremblay) as an aloof, socially awkward teen allowing his older class mates to crib his advanced maths homework, while harbouring the desire for a career as a full-time philosopher.

Enter Professor Henry Murray (Russell Crowe), a charismatic psychologist who takes the youngster under his wing, persuading him to join a radical debating society that turns out to be the front for a dubious experimental mind control programme bankrolled by unseen government high-ups.

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As the de facto villain of the piece, Crowe offers a masterclass in arrogance and manipulation, a seemingly beyond reproach know-it-all not averse to fudging the experiments’ data to ensure continued funding – but can his treatment of the young student feasibly be the only trigger for Ted’s future crimes?

At a push, it could be argued that director Janus Metz seeks to draw parallels between Murray and Kaczysnki as two men so entrenched in their beliefs that they’ll go to any lengths to convince the rest of the world; the former through what amounts to psychological torture, the latter through more shockingly visible methods.

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