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Movie Overview
Cast
Sandra Bullock
Ryan Gosling
Michael Pitt
Director
Barbet Schroeder
MPAA Rating
R - violence, language, a sex scene, and brief drug use
Murder by Numbers (2002)
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3/4
"...the plot weaves us into a complex web."
NutzWorld
Blake French
3/4
"Lesson learned: Never ask Ben Chaplin to lose his British accent."
Reel Film Reviews
David Nusair
B-
"The conventional crime film seems lively when it isn't trying too hard to be so cute."
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
3/4
"A psychological thriller that is as thoroughly involving and taut as it is intelligently written."
DustinPutman.com
Dustin Putman
2.5/4
"Forget the misleading title, what's with the unexplained baboon cameo?"
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
C
"It thinks it is original and incisive, when really it's the same old movie-of-the-week."
EricDSnider.com
Eric D. Snider
C
"The debut script by Tony Gayton completely betrays the director's compelling tone."
Film Blather
Eugene Novikov
2/4
"The fuzzy math doesn't add up in the Sandra Bullock by-the-numbers thriller "Murder by Numbers""
Movie Eye
Frank Ochieng
C
"Proves more lumbering and obvious than dramatically strong or intellectually riveting...Don't count on it for anything beyond a modest level of competence."
One Guy's Opinion
Frank Swietek
2.5/4
"There are things to like about
Murder By Numbers
-- but, in the end, the disparate elements don't gel."
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
2/4
"plods through its psychological murder-mystery trappings like well-worn clothes, and the edges are definitely starting to look frayed"
Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
2/4
"The script is too mainstream and the psychology too textbook to intrigue."
Palo Alto Weekly
Jeanne Aufmuth
4/10
"About on par with any mediocre episode of most any TV show featuring a homicide detective."
Screen It!
Jim Judy
5/10
"Basically, it's a Hitchcockian thriller wannabee with video rental written all over it."
JoBlo's Movie Emporium
JoBlo
5/10
"Despite the presence of Ms. Bullock,
Murder By Numbers
doesn't add up to very much, and like those old paint-by-numbers kits, the movie can easily be set aside and forgotten."
DVDTown.com
John J. Puccio
2/5
"118 - the number of minutes this movies runs. 22 - the number of minutes it took to bore me to death. 116 - the number of minutes I want back."
3BlackChicks Review
Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel
3.5/5
"An interesting idea turned into a movie about too many things. Maybe complexity in today?s dumbed down cinema is good; but complexity is not the same as "too much.""
Cinerina
Karina Montgomery
8/10
"Murder by Numbers nos obliga a identificarnos no con los representantes de la ley, sino con los autores del crímen."
Cinenganos
Luis Martinez
2/5
"100% shock-free."
TV Guide's Movie Guide
Maitland McDonagh
2.5/4
"The movie’s major and most devastating flaw is its reliance on formula, though, and it’s quite enough to lessen the overall impact the movie could have had."
Mark Reviews Movies
Mark Dujsik
"I wish I could ask for Sandy's gun and badge. She's an unintentional menace to moviegoers."
Flick Filosopher
MaryAnn Johanson
2/4
"Everything its title implies, a standard-issue crime drama spat out from the Tinseltown assembly line."
TheMovieReport.com
Michael Dequina
3/5
" predictable, even manufactured, a sort of movie by numbers. "
Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies
Nell Minow
3/5
"Dizer que "Cálculo Mortal" é uma decepção é constatar o óbvio."
Cinema em Cena
Pablo Villaca
2.5/4
"Some will not like this film because it doesn't offer easy answers. It doesn't have the usual, pat Hollywood ending."
Laramie Movie Scope
Robert Roten
C
"Might have passed as the latest installment of the similarly titled
Murder She Wrote
franchise."
Eclipse Magazine
Sean O'Connell
1.5/4
"A subtle variation on I Spit On Your Grave in which our purported heroine pathologically avenges a hatred for men."
Film Freak Central
Walter Chaw
0/10
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Modamag.com
Brian Orndorf
4/10
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William Wolf
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