Marketic It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Nessieldwi Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

ArdentViewer I found this movie to be choppy, uneven, and often confusing. It was about halfway through before I was able to see where the plot was going. While the idea of remote viewing is original, the execution spoiled it. The film jumped around so much that the viewer exerts most of his/her energy just trying to understand it and to formulate a "bottom line." I found the interactions between Aaron Eckhart and Carrie-Anne Moss to be contrived and not believable. Perhaps the worst mistake was the casting of Ben Kingsley as an American, ex-FBI agent. His British accent was painfully obvious throughout and was quite distracting and annoying. He is an excellent actor, but evidently not good enough to adopt a more realistic/appropriate accent. In addition to the accent, I didn't think his presence really worked for the character. All in all, it was somewhat of a chore to finish the movie (which I watched on DVD). I was hoping for a terrific ending that would make the arduous journey at least somewhat worthwhile, but I was disappointed.

Leofwine_draca SUSPECT ZERO is a serial killer film that attempts to emulate the success of SEVEN and its ilk but instead makes a mess of it thanks to some really dodgy direction, the worst I've seen in a mainstream Hollywood film in a while. Everything about the style makes it look incredibly dated and like it belongs in the early 1990s instead of the mid-2000s.It doesn't help that the film is saddled with a nonsensical plot and lots of badly edited scenes that barely begin to make sense, at least up until half an hour before the end. Advertising would have you believe this to be a straightforward serial killer outing about a killer who kills other killers (a plot popularised on TV these days in DEXTER) but instead it turns out to be some semi-supernatural thriller about America's involvement in 'Psy Ops', or psychic operations, so we get loads of guff about remote viewing and silly surveillance-style shots.Mired right in the middle of this mess is Aaron Eckhart, whose acting is of the calibre that you wouldn't believe he made it as a successful actor after this. Supporting him is Carrie-Anne Moss, delivering another icy cold turn as a supposedly sympathetic FBI agent, and Ben Kingsley, whose acting varies as the film progresses. The good news is that half an hour before the end it all begins to make sense and comes together quite nicely with a chase climax, but sadly that happens way too late in the game to make this a decent movie.

Prismark10 Directed by E Elias Merhige who made the intriguing Shadow of the Vampire comes another film with an intriguing premise.Aaron Eckhart plays a FBI agent Tom Mackelway who seems to have been downgraded after being suspended. He has moved to the Albuquerque office and immediately starts investigating a killing.He also starts receiving faxes about unsolved crimes. Mackleway seems to have some sort of empathy and vision regarding what seems to be random acts of murder but some of the clues point towards an ex FBI agent O'Ryan (Ben Kingsley) who might be a suspect or can see in the mind of a super serial killer and wants to assist Mackleway in catching him.The film starts promisingly enough but it quickly became muddled and confusing. At times I had to rewind parts of the film and put the volume up to understand it. The muddle lets the film down, Eckhart and Kingsley are fine, Carrie-Anne Moss is wasted.

tieman64 "Suspect Zero" was based on a famous screenplay by Zak Penn. Penn's story revolved around the idea of a breed of serial killers who, because they are super intelligent, are able to swim under the radar and kill for indefinite periods of time without being caught. Penn mirrored such serial killers to an allegory about 50 foot sharks, mythical creatures which marine biologists have no proof exist, but which hypothetically could. "For a 50-foot shark, the ocean would be a never-ending buffet table," one character says. "He could feed off whales, octopus; he'd never have any need to surface or come to shore. If there was a 50-foot shark, we wouldn't know about it. We'd never see them." Penn's script then watched as an FBI agent teams up with an older, maverick agent who has spent his life tracking "suspect zero", a creature he believes to be a super serial killer.Penn's script was hot property in Hollywood during the late 1990s. It jumped from studio to studio, changed hands a number of times, being re-written and re-written every step of the way. It eventually landed in the lap of director E. Elias Merhinge, who forced more rewrites, threw in a supernatural "remote viewing" subplot, re-imagined numerous characters and sucked Penn's tale of all life. The result became a terrible movie which bore little resemblance to Penn's script and which, like the 50-foot shark, quickly sunk under the radar.Amongst the cast, only actor Aaron Eckhart escapes with dignity. The film co-stars Ben Kingsley in yet another absurd, ridiculous role.5/10 – Worth no viewings.