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Movie Overview
Cast
• Aaron Eckhart
• Ben Kingsley
• Carrie-Anne Moss
Director
• E. Elias Merhige
MPAA Rating
R - violent content, language, and some nudity
Suspect Zero (2004)

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OFCS Rating: 13% Rotten
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"Despite fine performances by Aaron Eckhart and Ben Kingsley, 'Suspect Zero' is a painfully muddled crime thriller."  ReelTalk Movie Reviews  Betty Jo Tucker

D
"Dramatically, Zero is a fiasco, recklessly bouncing around logic and coherence like a pinball."  FilmJerk.com  Brian Orndorf

"The mood is spooky, the murk ominous."  PopMatters  Cynthia Fuchs

2/4
"Not so remote viewers can sense what the movie could have been instead of the result that's now in front of their eyes."  Kansas City Star  Dan Lybarger

2/4
"...one of those seemingly foolproof flicks that just doesn't work..."  Reel Film Reviews  David Nusair

C
"The film tries to be a follow-up to Seven but instead throws down a big Zero."  Ozus' World Movie Reviews  Dennis Schwartz

2.5/4
"While the plotting doesn't exactly reinvent the wheel, it does skew conventions enough to leave the viewer edgy and wondering what will unfold with each progressive scene."  TheMovieBoy.com  Dustin Putman

C-
"Suspect Zero has two good ideas, and it squanders them both."  EricDSnider.com  Eric D. Snider

2/4
"Take away all the excitement, intrigue, mystery, sci-fi, performances and movement from Minority Report and we’d still be a few rings above Suspect Zero."  eFilmCritic.com  Erik Childress

C-
"A lifeless piece of work that sits there on the screen and doesn't even take the most tentative steps to engage the viewer."  Film Blather  Eugene Novikov

D-
"Aptly titled: zero thrills, zero sense, zero chance...a serial killer movie that's substandard despite one's low expectations of the genre."  One Guy's Opinion  Frank Swietek

1/5
"Fancy camera-work and Sir Ben Kingsley do not manage to make this thriller into anything more than a misfire"  Spirituality and Practice  Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

2/4
"Snappy technique can’t disguise the fact that this is a tired pastiche of the serial killer classics that have come before it."  Palo Alto Weekly  Jeanne Aufmuth

1.5/5
"I was watching this movie with a friend and when the end credits rolled I noticed that he'd fallen asleep. I think that pretty much says it all, don't you?"  Film Threat  Jeremy Knox

6/10
"Another film about a creepy bald guy."  Planet Sick-Boy  Jon Popick

2/4
"Is it a masterpiece or a bore?"  Movie Habit  Marty Mapes

"[B]y far the most fascinating failure of the year so far... [A]ssumes a sense of adventure and intelligence on the audience’s part that is all too rare at the multiplex."  Flick Filosopher  MaryAnn Johanson

3/4
"The film is undeniably flawed, yet the things that work do so beautifully."  Aisle Seat  Mike McGranaghan

1.5/4
"Serial killer film flops are a dime a dozen, and Suspect Zero—a supernatural-tinged rehash of countless superior thrillers—is worth slightly less than a penny."  Slant Magazine  Nick Schager

"The film merely winds up being just another depressing exercise that confuses faulty plotting and icky visuals with intelligent filmmaking."  Critic Doctor  Peter Sobczynski

2/5
"very few people will have the patience to wade through the conventional to reach the lone twist that sets Zero apart from its competition"  Filmcritic.com  Sean O'Connell

"Its junkiness shines through its posh patina. Exploitation is just no fun anymore, now that it's all so damn tasteful."  Salon.com  Stephanie Zacharek

3.5/4
"Smart and anxious."  Film Freak Central  Walter Chaw

2/10
Read review  Modamag.com  Susan Granger

Read review  Pajiba  Jeremy C. Fox
OFCS Rating: 13% Rotten
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