12. Murder By Numbers
Murder By Numbers is a 2002 thriller starring Sandra Bullock as homicide detective Cassie Mayweather. When a woman's body is found in the woods, it's up to her to find the killer. Turns out the killers are a pair of high school students who have planned what they feel to be the perfect murder.
This is a decent movie. It's nothing that hasn't been done before and for that, it suffers from being strictly okay. The cast is good with Bullock leading the way. She manages to give the character a bit of depth in what is a pretty good performance. Her partner, newly transferred from vice, is played by Ben Chaplin. Ironic since earlier in the month, I'd wondered what had happened to him. That makes two movies I've seen him in in less than two weeks. Odd. Our teenage murderers are portrayed by Ryan Gosling and Michael Pitt. Gosling is really good here. Very charismatic and cocky...you feel like he just knows he's going to get away with it. Pitt, as the brilliant forensic mind behind the murder, is solid. There's something about his appearance that makes me want to punch him in the face, but that's neither here nor there.
3 comments:
I really liked "Murder by Numbers." It's not perfect and the ending pissed me off, but that's probably just me as a viewer being pissed at what happened to the characters and not anything the movie did wrong.
Sidenote: afte3r this movie came out, it was touted by a lot of websites as a good example of :"the evils of homosexuality" because the two main guys hang out together and develop an "unhealthy relationship" to each other, and the events of the movie "wouldn't have happened if these guys had girlfriends." That's a direct quote from one of the Christian movie websites I visited back then.
Personally, I think that's a funny reading of the events of the film. I enjoy its resemblance to the Leopold and Loeb case and books like "The Face of Fear" and "The Voice of the Night" by Dean Koontz.
That's a pretty strange thought process regarding this one. In all honesty, that thought never even crossed my mind. Not for nothing, but both characters show an interest in the same girl so their argument doesn't even make any sense ultimately.
Yeah, I think some people look for gays behind every corner, so they see gay people everywhere. At least that was the case in the crazy churches I attended. This movie really reminded me of "The Voice of the Night" too, and that was another book that some pastors used to slam homosexuality even though the two main guys were interested in the same girl.
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