I just watched a great movie on Netflix, about Ted Bundy, called "Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile". I thought it was really good, and it wasn't visually gory, as you would expect this type of movie to be. But it got the point across, of who, and what he really was. The prosecutor in the first Florida trial was played by Jim Parsons, and he did a hell of a job losing Sheldon Cooper.
EDIT: I just went to the IMDB page, and never even recognized James Hetfield as a police officer in the movie. When I went to his page, it appeared that this was his first acting roll. I wonder if he's dipping his toes into the acting pool, between Metallica breaks. I know he provided the voice for a water polo coach on the animated series, "American Dad".I think he could pull of bad guys, easier then good guys, and I don't think he could pull of the action hero thing either.