Unlike most true crime documentaries, this is not flashy - which is good - nor does it attempt to create any compelling atmosphere or paint a portrait of the area and time period - which is less good - and it's mostly just a bunch of old men talking. I swear to god it's like listening to a college lecture or AM radio or a podcast on the minutae of police work.
There are bright spots, mostly with the mother figure who hosted young Alain at her home in Canada, who actually describes him as a person, showed regard for his well-being while he was still living by sending him to relatives throughout his journey, and conducts herself with a level of respect and dignity which in my opinion makes her the star of the show. That might sound like a horrible thing to say in a documentary about a brutal murder, but it was refreshing to see someone so substantially focused on the living victim and his parents following his death.
I can tell you very much that I have pretty strong ideas about who I think did it, but you'll have to watch for yourself and decide, but before you do that just know that they have convicted zero people in 2023. I had to stop around the 1 1/2 hour mark because I was so tired of hearing some old guy's opinion about an unrelated crime related to some of the suspects.
