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Suspect Zero

Rating: R

Running Time: 96 minutes

 

Here is a bit of math that sums up my thoughts of Suspect Zero. Ben Kingsley + Aaron Eckhart + Carrie Ann Moss + A serial killer who kills serial killers = ZERO. 

FBI Special Agents Aaron Mackelway (Aaron Eckhart) and his partner Fran Kulok (Carrie Ann Moss) have been exiled to New Mexico after botching the arrest of a serial killer leading to his release. Mackelway suffers from headaches and sees murky visions that either  foreshadow events or show events happening in the present time miles away. He's being taunted by Benjamin O'Ryan, a killer who was driven insane by his work as a remote viewer for the  FBI. As part of their top secret program, O'Ryan had to enter the minds of killers and see their world in an effort to catch them. Although the program was disbanded, O'Ryan is unable to turn off the images that flood his brain.

There is a thin line between complexity and confusion and screenwriters Zak Penn (Behind Enemy Lines, X-Men 2)and Billy Ray (Shattered Glass, Volcano) leap over it. There are heavy shades of Seven in this movie but it only illustrates how much of a better movie that was. I wish I had seen it tonight. Director E. Elias Merhige didn't help things by inserting a bunch of visually funky but grainy and blurry dream images. His penchant for extreme close-ups got annoying very quickly.

To his credit, Kingsley was creepy and intense. The rest of the cast was bland and forgettable much like the movie.