Tony Stone’s avoidance of emotional manipulation in dramatizing Ted Kaczynski’s terror campaign is admirable, but only up to a point.
A warts-and-all portrait that asserts its subject’s sense of purpose even as it seems to slip out of his grasp.
Stone discusses why it was so necessary to go “off the grid” to make Severed Ways.
The film seems more informed by low-budget History Channel programs and the proto-metal Norse lore of Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song.”