The Motive: Season 1 | Rotten Tomatoes (2025)

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Thomas B What a terrible waste of time. Spoiler alert: they claim to know the motive but never reveal it. Does anyone actually know The Motive? Who knows. The lawyer of the murderer in question winks at the camera and says he totally definitely knows it, but in a massive middle finger, you the audience will never know. Don't waste your time. Rated 1/5 Stars • Rated 1 out of 5 stars 12/28/23 Full Review Danay M It was a great documents very real and I felt the story as it was unfolding. It also bought me to tears and I felt bad for the 14 year old who clearly has a detachment. The video was raw and the ending was good. I wish he would of come up and speak and see his family and see what his wife now thinks especially after having kids. But I can understand the privacy issue. But it was a show to watch Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 08/03/23 Full Review Carol Z Don't waste your precious time on this series. Four episodes to hear the same info repeatedly that tells you nothing. Rated 1/5 Stars • Rated 1 out of 5 stars 05/31/23 Full Review Cem Y The incident captured in this documentary is very interesting and footages make it very eerie. The problem is that 4 episodes are too much and the defense lawyer is too silent. After some point, you watch the same thing again and again... Rated 3/5 Stars • Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/14/23 Full Review Andres C The case is interesting. This documentary is not. The editing is horrendous, it is choke full of irrelevant interviews, endlessly interrupted by redundant and repeated images of the accused and his family. Almost none of the people interviewed gives any information relevant to the case, and the ones who do have so little to share that it could have perfectly been fitted in the first episode. Worst of all, there's no real conclusion, so the thinly veiled effort at building tension out of nothing dissolves in an anticlimatic final shot. You'd do better reading the Wikipedia entry for this case. Rated 1/5 Stars • Rated 1 out of 5 stars 05/26/22 Full Review tina m I personally found this short series fascinating. I was interested as much about the depiction of Israeli society as the intriguing question of what was the boy's motive for the murders. The audience is invited to figure out on their own what was the motive because to this day none of the experts have. I admired the judge who informed the attorneys involved in advance that he was not going to sentence a 13 and a half year old boy for murder, and they would have to work out an agreement between them for a lesser sentence. I have concluded that, in fact, there is no motive for the murders--the boy was a youth with immature development of his brain who did not understand what the consequences of his acts would be--and that is the long and short of it. What is remarkable is that all the adult experts involved continue to ponder and theorize as to the motive, not understanding that a child's mind is different from an adult's! Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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