The review argues that *Unabomber* offers a shallow and unconvincing account of Ted Kaczynski’s formative years at Harvard. It centres on a brutal psychological experiment that the film presents as helping create Kaczynski’s later extremist worldview, while also adding a routine 1990s investigation into his eventual capture.

The film’s 1950s sections create an effective early-Cold-War atmosphere, but the reviewer finds the writing clichéd and the conclusions unpersuasive. Jacob Tremblay conveys Kaczynski’s youth but not the deeper menace of his developing ideology, while Russell Crowe gives a restrained, familiar performance as the morally compromised psychologist Henry Murray; overall, both storylines are described as facile and unenlightening.