The Unabomber was coming up with fascinating ideas on society from as early as the 1970's and as time goes by, those ideas become more prescient and more true. So, how does this film go about exploring these great insights into society? How does this film explore the intellect of its subject? The sad answer is, it ignores it.

Ted K, was a fantastic opportunity to do something intellectually stimulating, but for some reason, a choice was made to ignore the intelligence and make the story about a crazy hobo who lives in the forest, struggles with sexual frustration and makes mail bombs because he can't find a girlfriend.

If I were conspiratorial, I could easily imagine the powerful overlords of our society were getting so worried about people reading the Unabomber's manifesto, that they set out to destroy his character by making this film.

The film is competently produced and Sharlto Copley's performance is strong; the problem is the approach. This film didn't attempt to study Ted Kaczynski's character, they set out to assassinate it.

Far too much character study and dramatised mental-illness scenes shadowed the facts, and intelligence of this man. I am assuming they didn't want to glorify him in any way, but pigeon-holing him into 'the angry little petty lonely man' does the truth great injustice. Of course aspects of this side of his personality led to his identification and capture, but to me it came across as a half portrait filled in with abstract nonsense.

Ted K is a movie/biography that just won't please everyone. It will probably please far left people more than right wing ideologists. Ted Kaczynski is an anarchist, an eco warrior/terrorist, but first of all a very eccentric person that is fed up with the world and the modern technology. In a way I can understand him, although killing people isn't the solution. I thought the movie was well made, very informative about his life and way of thinking. Everybody knows the Unabomber, but who really knows what drove him to this behavior, who did ever read his manifesto? Not alot of people, so this movie is perfect to have a better view on the person. Sharlto Copley nailed it playing him. He carries this movie, very good performance from him. Ted K is almost two hours long but never boring. I read alot of reviewers found it repetitive but I disagree. What else do yo expect from a guy that lives in a cabin in the woods in the middle of nowhere, without water or electricity? Of course there are going to be repetitive scenes, because the man possesses nothing, so it's only natural to see him doing his daily habits. People can hate Ted Kaczynski for what he's done, but he's not a stupid man, on the contrary is very clever, almost a visionary. Nobody can deny that modern technology makes people dumb. It should be the opposite but look around you, for example look at the "influencers", you know that dumb generation that thinks they have something interesting to tell, and most of all their followers, the other kind of extremely dumb people we have now. People unable to think for themselves, obliged to listen to other dumb people, hypnotized by their smartphones and other ridicule gadgets. I can't call that progress, on the contrary. Technology is supposed to help us, and it does, but it's not making people smarter, just the opposite. Everybody has a smartphone, but it's the phone that is smart, not his user.