Murder by Numbers

Pros: Interesting movie
Cons: Some things were unresolved.

I had read some reviews by people who didn’t like Murder by Numbers, but I did still want to see it. I like mystery/thriller type movies and I like Sandra Bullock. My friend and I decided to go see Murder by Numbers one...

Pros: Some evocative lighting by the great Luciano Tovoli.
Cons:

Terrible characterizations, boring story, so-what? characters, stagnant direction.

Having given an outstanding performance as a tomboy-ish FBI agent in the buoyant and bright Miss Congeniality, I had hope that Sandra Bullock (previously an acquired taste with this reviewer) had realized her dramatic limitations and saw fit to ...

Pros: Psychology. The two boys. Sandra Bullock. Unpredictable.
Cons: Some moments are a little too convenient.

We have a winner! As much as I jabber on about going back to see a movie twice, I have not wanted to enough to actually make a second trip since Monsters Inc. Well, Murder By Numbers is the latest to worm the cash out of my pocket for a...

Pros: Character development.
Cons: Some easy outs in the storyline.

"Murder By Numbers" is a crime drama/thriller that took me by surprise. Expecting a rather cookie-cutter police whodunit, I was pleased that the movie had several much more interesting facets.

I want to keep the plot summary here bare bones,...

Pros: Interesting initial premise and good cast, but...
Cons: BAD WRITING, too many coincidences, inconsistent & unsympathetic characters, BAD WRITING....

Murder by Numbers starts off with the intriguing premise of a murder committed by two students, one of whom has become an expert in forensics and knows exactly what the homicide squad will be looking for, and thus what to cover up… The murder is planned i ...

Pros: Gosling, Bullock, Caplin and Pitt in that order. Cinematography. Editing. Direction.
Cons: Numbers? What numbers? Lags occasionally.

This is an engrossing thriller that thrills through exceptional performances and painstaking revelation. The pace is sometimes excruciatingly slow, but it is extremely well constructed and edited-so the slow parts will require your complete attention...

Pros: a couple of good plot twists near the end
Cons: long, boring, cliche-ridden, uninspired, derivative, and mostly lacking a pulse

Murder by Numbers is a story about a pair of high-school buddies who've been watching one too many hours of Court TV. In an age of instant information - and information overload - they've come up with a grisly extracurricular project: Take the life of ...

Pros: pretty sets
Cons: the acting, writing, directing

I like Sandra Bullock. I admit it. She has some serious dramatic limitations, but generally speaking, I like to watch her movies. Sadly, this is not the case with Murder by Numbers.

I chose Murder by Numbers because it was on...

Pros: Ryan Gosling, everything else eh.
Cons: the eh.

Murder by Numbers tries to meld together the psychological aspect of crime with a 2 hour voyage of discovering the truth. In some movies this means 2 hours of action and whodunnit scenes leading up to conclusion that concludes with the...

Pros: The film with Michael Pitt and Ryan Gosling.
Cons: The film with Sandra Bullock and Ben Chaplin.

My apologies for the long silence from Chateau Maine. It's just that everything has been so hectic, what with the daily trips down to Rosita's Ice-A-Rama to continue rehearsals for my elaborate new theatrical presentation, Aida on Ice. I regret...

Pros: Decent performances in the leads
Cons: Predictable

Murder by Numbers is a formulaic, made-for-TV movie with brief, easily cut scenes of sex, drugs and bad language to get its R-rating, without spoiling its future release to Network TV. The plot could have been written as a screenwriting class project by ...

Pros: Chilling, but wasted performances from Pitt and Gosling
Cons: Overdone characters, flimsy story that collapses in the end

Stephen King was one of the most profound influences in me becoming a writer. The way he could use words, simple, everyday ones, to generate the extremes of emotions, mostly terror, both internal and external, is what lured me towards this profession....

Pros: What?
Cons: Conned? Yeah, me, for watching this movie.

I can't believe I watched this movie in it's entirety. I can't believe that anyone watched this movie in it's entirety and said it was a great movie. This movie gave me a sharp headache-pain behind my left eye halfway through the movie. The entire ...

Pros: Some of the acting
Cons: One or two solid performances don’t make a decent movie

Is this what murder mysteries are coming to? Is the crime/thriller genre so bereft of decent, original ideas that this is the kind of movie that gets one of those “highly recommended” stickers on it at the video store? Of course, Cruel ...

Pros: Barbet Schroeder (definitely) Sandra Bullock (probably) San Luis Obispo for sure!
Cons: I hate movies that make me think when I just want entertainment.

Well, shades of Leopold and Loeb, what have we here? Don't worry, I'm not claiming to be old enough to have followed the L&L trial, but I did watch Hitchcock's Rope, so that ought to count for something. I was even going to compare one of the...