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Suspect Zero (2004)

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Reviews Counted:5

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Rotten:4

Average Rating:4/10

Consensus: Other than Ben Kingsley, there's not much to like in this preposterous thriller.

Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: It's 4 AM and torrents of rain pour down on a dusty roadside New Mexico diner. Inside, an innocuous looking salesman sips coffee while catching up on his fishing magazines. After the front door... It's 4 AM and torrents of rain pour down on a dusty roadside New Mexico diner. Inside, an innocuous looking salesman sips coffee while catching up on his fishing magazines. After the front door creaks open, an unusual looking man startles the salesman by sitting down at his table and displaying frightening drawings that send the salesman fleeing for the safety of his car. We meet Agent Thomas Mackelway on his first day of work at the Albuquerque field office of the FBI. Mackelway, wrestling with secrets and demons from his past, is plagues by headaches and feels that he is being watched. And in fact he is... but by whom? Mackelway finds himself mysteriously drawn into a bizarre series of murders: the salesman from the diner found dead in his car on the deserted New Mexico border; a sixth grade teacher from Boulder, Co. discovered in an abandoned vehicle in the diner parking lot; and Mackelay's own personal nemesis, killed while attacking a young girl. Mackelway's former partner, Fran Kulok, who knows Mackelway's deepest secrets, is sent to Albuquerque to assist him on the case. Together, they set out to solve this lethal puzzle. What do these murders have in common? The case becomes increasingly personal as Mackelway's determination turns to obsession. The killer seems to be taunting him, faxing him hundreds of maddening, chilling clues, all of which point to a cunning renegade named Benjamin O'Ryan. Trained in a secret government remote viewing program which enabled five elite agents to get into the hearts and minds of killers and their victims, O'Ryan became consumed with tracking the ultimate manifestation of a killer -- Suspect Zero. -- © Paramount Pictures [More]

Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Ben Kingsley, Carrie-Anne Moss, Harry J. Lennix

Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Ben Kingsley, Carrie-Anne Moss, Harry J. Lennix

Director: E. Elias Merhige

Director: E. Elias Merhige
Screenwriter: Billy Ray, Zak Penn
Producer: Paula Wagner
Composer: Clint Marsell
Studio: Paramount Pictures

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Too devised and elaborate to really engage us.

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08/27/04
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
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Finally, a serial-killer movie so preposterous it may actually put a permanent kibosh on this tediously overworked crime subgenre.

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08/26/04
Manohla Dargis
Manohla Dargis
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An apt metaphor for the times.

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08/26/04
Kevin Thomas
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Los Angeles Times
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The movie exhausts its audience rather than entertains it.

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08/23/04
Kirk Honeycutt
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Hollywood Reporter
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A plodding and familiar 'cop sees what the killer sees' riff that plays like a poorly inflated The X-Files episode.

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08/23/04
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