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Murder by Numbers
The only flaw in their plan was her.
Tenacious homicide detective Cassie Mayweather and her still-green partner are working a murder case, attempting to profile two malevolently brilliant young men: cold, calculating killers whose dark secrets might explain their crimes.
- Original title
- Murder by Numbers
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
- $50,000,000
- Revenue
- $56,714,147
CinemaSerf
Jul 6, 2022 · via TMDB
This is yet another role in which Sandra Bullock plays a cop on the outskirts of her team. She is "Cassie", a woman with intimacy issues who gets teamed up with "Sam" (Ben Chaplin) whom she toys with as if he were a kitten both personally and on their case to investigate what looks like the perfect murder. A distinct lack of clues leads her bloodhound nose to a school where, without the slightest shred of evidence, she alights on the wealthy "Haywood" (Ryan Gosling) to whom she takes an instant dislike. Further ferreting around lead the pair to "Pendleton" (Michael Pitt) who is partial to a little caviar, as was the corpse. Might they all be connected? I've rarely seen a potentially decent ensemble cast wasted like this. Bullock just isn't at the races, her character is frankly really quite boring and the rapport with the out of his depth Chaplin just doesn't work. There is the glimmer of an homo-erotic relationship between Gosling and the always enigmatic Pitt, but I think maybe that is just because my brain was scrabbling around trying to find a reason to make it through this really disappointing feature. In the end it is a battle of wills, and those who seem to hold all the aces play their hand as if their arms had been amputated; serendipity plays way too big a part in the denouement and at just shy of two hours, I found myself looking out of the window at the seagulls more than I might have liked. Not very good!
JPV852
Jan 1, 2021 · via TMDB
Decent crime-thriller that I saw back in 2002 (probably in theaters as I did go on a weekly basis back then) and while never really impressed me, still found it watchable thanks to the performances from a young Ryan Gosling (only his fifth film) and Michael Pitt, and Sandra Bullock was alright as a damaged homicide detective. Plot plays like an episode of Criminal Minds, which isn't a bad thing to me. Also fun seeing Nick Offerman in a bit role. **3.25/5**
John Chard
Jun 19, 2014 · via TMDB
A pact made with relentless fire that requires that, while some live, others die. A modern spin on the Leopold and Loeb case, directed by Barbet Schroeder and starring Sandra Bullock as a cop with emotional baggage trying to prove that two high school kids (Ryan Gosling and Michael Pitt) have committed what they think is the perfect murder - just for kicks, allegedly. There's nothing exactly awful about the film, it's well performed by the principal players, engrossing in narrative, beautifully lensed by Luciano Tovoli and Schroeder layers the production with a suitable feeling of unease. Sadly there's no psychological depth given the two boys by writer Tony Gayton, which renders the whole motives and means, and the investigation of such, as being a shallow exercise in thriller film making. Running at two hours in length doesn't help matters, because this further irritates that more meat was not written onto Gosling and Pitt's bones, while it also exposes just how hackneyed and clichéd the picture is. Which when the story should be psychologically profound, marks this out as a frustrating viewing experience. 6/10
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Sandra Bullock
Cassie Mayweather
Ben Chaplin
Sam Kennedy
Ryan Gosling
Richard Haywood
Michael Pitt
Justin Pendleton
Agnes Bruckner
Lisa Mills
Chris Penn
Ray Feathers
R. D. Call
Rod Cody
Tom Verica
Al Swanson
Janni Brenn
Ms. Elder
John Vickery
Restaurant Manager
Krista Carpenter
Olivia Lake
Neal Matarazzo
Male Officer in Flashback
Adilah Barnes
Lab Technician
Jim Jansen
Lawyer
Brian Stepanek
Parole Board Marshall
Sharon Madden
Nurse
John Doolittle
Fingerprint Technician
Dennis Cockrum
Criminalist #1 at Ray's House
Eric Saiet
Criminalist #2 at Ray's House
Ralph Seymour
Paramedic
Christine Healy
Justin's Mother
Nick Offerman
Cop at Richard's House
Steve Saklad
Set Designer
Luciano Tovoli
Director of Photography
Valli O'Reilly
Key Makeup Artist
Alan D. Purwin
Pilot
Cliff Fleming
Pilot
Norman Howell
Stunt Coordinator
Donna Evans
Stunt Double
Craig Baxley Jr.
Stunts
Kanin Howell
Stunts
Stanton Barrett
Stunts
Barbet Schroeder
Director
Kerry Lyn McKissick
Script Supervisor
Lee Percy
Editor
Sandra Bullock
Executive Producer
Barbet Schroeder
Producer
Clint Mansell
Original Music Composer
Dennis Sands
Scoring Mixer
Tony Gayton
Screenplay
Toast
Milgram and the Fastwalkers
Silhouette
Psycho
The Lion King
Vertigo
Double Indemnity
Love, Simon
V for Vendetta
Werckmeister Harmonies
On the Waterfront
Die Hard
Mulholland Drive
Network
Mystic River
Out of the Past
The Maltese Falcon
A Time to Kill
All the President's Men
Blue Velvet
Sleepers
10 Things I Hate About You
Police Story
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The Thin Man
After Hours
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Yellow Ticket
It Happened in Broad Daylight
Scarface
The Talk of the Town
Dead Man
Blow-Up
Tell No One
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
Irreversible
Point Break
Straight Time
Kick-Ass
Frenzy
Notes on a Scandal
Arlington Road
Caché
Scotland Yard
The Broken Melody
Jigsaw
1979, Roma violenta
Heavenly Creatures
Dressed to Kill
Basic Instinct
The Sleeping Car Murders
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Cube
The Spy Who Loved Me
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Romeo + Juliet
Klute
Narc
Mission: Impossible III
The Kingdom
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Vaigai Express
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
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The Four Feathers
The History Boys
Psycho-Pass: Sinners of the System - Case.1 Crime and Punishment
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May
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Devil in a Blue Dress
Next Door
Shakedown
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White Boy Rick
Buffalo Soldiers
Little Secrets
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Gothika
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The Entitled
6,000 Enemies
Hollywoodland
Lady in White
A Free Soul
Where Love Has Gone
White Rabbit
Burke & Hare
Wonderland
Lonely Hearts
Switchback
Mulholland Falls
I Know What You Did Last Summer
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The Perfect Gentleman
The Diplomatic Corpse
The Ice Harvest
Seberg
Port Afrique
Almost Cops
My Heart Can't Beat Unless You Tell It To
Urge to Kill
The Keeping Room
Pretty Maids All in a Row
RoomMate
Kill 'em All
Hustle
Savage Grace
Doomed to Die
Horror Castle
Nightalk
Cube Zero
Godzilla
The Omen
Mr. Wong, Detective
The Box
Cube 2: Hypercube
Cannibal Apocalypse
The Abandoned
The Disco Years
Batman Forever
Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh
A Serbian Film
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DOA: Dead or Alive
Don't Look Back
Harriet the Spy: Blog Wars
Love Never to End
The Hand of Now
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Crimen en familia
Mala, Love and Death
The Corpse Had a Familiar Face
What Death Leaves Behind
Phobia
Für den unbekannten Hund
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Bloodbath at Pinky High: Part 1
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Love Child
Warriors of Horseshoe 3: Redemption
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Die Moorde Van Boven
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Spiegeltje
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25 O'Clock in Shinjuku
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Maigret at Bay
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War
Crooked House
Gang Related
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China Moon
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The Rookie
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Killshot
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