I left halfway because I just could not take it. My heart went out to these lonely people just looking for a bit of happiness and what these people were doing taking advantage of them. This movie just stuck too deep.

No need to go over the story. I rented this movie and was surprised at how well it depicted men who work in law enforcement and the women who are married to them. I haven't seen Scott Caan mentioned in the other reviews, but I thought he was excellent, he could end up being a better actor than his Dad. Travolta was much better than I expected because he didn't rely on the tics and mannerisims that he uses on almost all of his other movies, the pauses between words, the statacco delivery, the playing with the cigarettes etc. Gandolfini was pretty good and I was able to separate him from Soprano even though he used the same voice. Leto and Hayak were great, hard to imagine during the movie that Leto had played Steve Prefontaine to perfection. Hayak did a great job of showing the evil in her character just by sitting next to the woman in the yard in Michigan, listening, giving the small fake smile and yet conveying that she has already decided what she is going to do to the woman. Very glad I rented this.

I was slightly disappointed with John Travolta's performance I was expecting more from him but he never came across. There where too many dead spots in this movie. Salma Hayek did very well as a psychopath but the film as a whole was sometimes very slow at spots and it performers where only decent for the most part.

This is a watchable film; however, in my opinion, the 1970 version seems to have more horsepower, and the main characters resembled the real-life killers more closely. Furthermore, I think in the new version too much time is dedicated to the detectives rather than to the killers.

I thought maybe I had found a hidden gem. I saw the sexy Salma on the cover. The ratings box said "R" for violence, sexual content, and nudity. Then it described Salma's character as a psychopath with a passion for hot-blooded sex and cold-blooded murder!? Based on the true story of The Lonely Hearts Killers?! Yeah, I was pumped for this one. Alas, my hopes were soon shot down. In case you don't know, the Lonely Hearts Killers were a couple of mismatched lovers that victimized many rich lonely widows. This movie drifts pretty far from the true story. It spends too much time with the police work on the case, instead of more focus on the sex and murders. The twisted mentality of the killers isn't exposed very well. And worst of all, no revealing shots of Salma. Trust me, there is a good reason you haven't heard much about this. My one star rating is harsh, it might not be quite that horrible. But instead of wasting your time with this, pick up the Criterion version, The Honeymoon Killers.