If Wayne Gale were a lawyer, rather than a tv journalist, he'd be the ambulance-chaser type. In this film, he plays the camera-loving star of a reality crime show American Maniac . (think America's Most Wanted meets Robin Leach). He is the center of his own universe, and nothing is more important to him than getting the story . He's conveniently set aside any morals or sense of decency he may have possessed in order to get that coveted one-on-one interview with the notorious American serial killer, Mickey Knox (Woody Harrelson). When not spewing off at the mouth in his exaggerated Australian accent, he's trying to manipulate all around him by issuing phony compliments and false sympathies. Robert Downey Jr's. is a character full of nothing but phoniness and pretention, but those premises definitely fit within the film.