Suspect Zero
Suspect Zero
R | 27 August 2004 (USA)
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A killer is on the loose, and an FBI agent sifts through clues and learns that the bloodthirsty felon's victims of choice are other serial killers.

Reviews
GarnettTeenage The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.
ChicDragon It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.
Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows
Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.
Prismark10 Directed by E Elias Merhige who made the intriguing Shadow of the Vampire comes another film with an intriguing premise.Aaron Eckhart plays a FBI agent Tom Mackelway who seems to have been downgraded after being suspended. He has moved to the Albuquerque office and immediately starts investigating a killing.He also starts receiving faxes about unsolved crimes. Mackleway seems to have some sort of empathy and vision regarding what seems to be random acts of murder but some of the clues point towards an ex FBI agent O'Ryan (Ben Kingsley) who might be a suspect or can see in the mind of a super serial killer and wants to assist Mackleway in catching him.The film starts promisingly enough but it quickly became muddled and confusing. At times I had to rewind parts of the film and put the volume up to understand it. The muddle lets the film down, Eckhart and Kingsley are fine, Carrie-Anne Moss is wasted.
doug_park2001 A brilliant serial killer develops a telepathic bond with a disgraced FBI agent who, along with the stalwart female partner with whom he has been recently reunited, tries to figure out all the patterns and catch the killer.Sound familiar? Still, as derivative as this film is, there is enough in the way of suspense, action, intrigue, twists, layers, and semi-original detail to probably make it worth watching if you're a fan of this sort of thing. SUSPECT ZERO does have a few small but prominent plot-holes. While there is a good bit of blatant gore, it is not too gratuitous in that respect.A lot's been said about Ben Kingsley's fine performance, and I agree. Aaron Eckhart's acting is rather staid and stilted, but it's oddly fitting for the character that he portrays. Carrie-Anne Moss does an exceptional job of playing Mackelway (Eckhart)'s stalwart, no-nonsense, but compassionate female partner.
LeonLouisRicci Remove Viewing is a real life trained/learned discipline that was developed by Ingo Swann at Stanford Research Institute and adapted by the Government and utilized for twenty years in a Top Secret Psi-Ops unit. The results were astonishing and although much skepticism later if one is to delve deep into the science and its repeatable results the remarkable findings are undeniable.That said, incorporating this into a fictional serial-killer film had intriguing potential that was totally wasted and completely confusing. Remove Viewing itself is never satisfyingly explained or used for anything but a back-story to facilitate the breakdown of the RV practitioner and an excuse for his psychosis.In addition the film is all over the push-pin map and is so murky and kinetic that the whole affair becomes frustrating and futile. There are some tense moments and the movie is forever begging one to become involved but knocks the viewer upside the head with frantic editing and surreal images that are migraine inducing. A bottle of aspirin might help you to endure this pretentious mess, but the pain is ultimately too much to bare even for fans of the genre.
FlashCallahan FBI Agent Thomas Mackelway violates serial killer Raymond Starkey's civil rights during an unorthodox arrest, Starkey goes free and Mackelway is demoted to a remote branch of the agency in Albuquerque. Mackelway investigates the murder of a travelling salesman Harold Speck, which turns out to be the first of three seemingly random killings. Or perhaps they are not random at all; the last to die is Raymond Starkey. The assignment consumes him. The case becomes increasingly gruesome and patently personal. This does not go unnoticed by his partner, who knows of Mackelway's past and the demons that afflict him. Like Mackelway, she becomes drawn into the labyrinth of chilling clues, all of which point to the enigmatic Benjamin O'Ryan. O'Ryan clearly has a connection to the killings and he may also harbour a sinister link to Mackelway.This is one of those films that has been hanging around for years and never really had a wide release, despite the fact that it has a really intriguing synopsis,and has Kingsley in it.Now I know why, and with the Kingsley factor, you sometimes forget he was in Species, Sound of Thunder, and other pap.The film just takes too long to get going, and after the impressive opening, it just goes downhill way to fast.Eckhardt does his best With the awful, clichéd script, and he, just like the film, becomes very annoying before the stupid revelation. Moss looks bored post 'Matrix', and Kingsley hams it up more than a pantomime dame.It's boring, predictable and a waste of time.