Murder By Numbers (DVD)

Where there is a murder, there is always a motive. This is a simple fact on which the police rely if they are to bring a killer to justice. So what if somebody set about killing somebody simply because they could? They might pick a total stranger at random, carefully select the means, identify the opportunity and carry out the terrible task. To make matters worse, they might deliberately leave items of forensic evidence in order to lead the police to believe certain things. It’s an unusual – and quite frightening – premise, and it forms the basis of the film Murder by Numbers. Richard Haywood and Justin Pendleton are two gifted high school students. Richard is ...  Read the complete review

Looking at them, you wouldn't know that popular rich kid Richard Haywood (Ryan Gosling) and school geek Justin Pendleton (Michael Pitt) had anything in common. In high school terms they live completely different lives; Richard is good looking, wealthy and funny whereas Justin is the school misfit who's aptitude for biology makes him an easy target for bullies... in the form of Richard. What no one knows about the oddly matched duo is that they have a deep dark secret; a desire to kill. Detective Cassie Mayweather (Sandra Bullock) is given the arduous task that no detective wants to be faced with; to catch a killer with no motive. According to police, behind ...  Read the complete review

Richard Haywood (Ryan Gosling) is a high school superstar, with his charismatic charm; everybody loves him including nerdy Justin Pendleton (Michael Pitt), an intelligent pupil who due to his dark nature is a bit of a loner. But between them they have a very dark secret, for the past few months, they have researched, plotted, planned and executed the perfect murder, just to see if they could get away with it. After the dead body of a middle-aged woman is discovered in the local woods, homicide detectives Cassie Mayweather (Sandra Bullock) and her new partner Sam Kennedy (Ben Chaplin) are assigned to the case. All the clues initially lead them to the high ...  Read the complete review

Murder by Numbers starts off with the intriguing premise of a murder committed by two students, one of whom has become an expert in forensics and knows exactly what the homicide squad will be looking for, and thus what to cover up… The murder is planned in detail, with everything taken care of to set up someone else – or so they think… Enter Cassie Mayweather (Bullock), “unorthodox homicide detective”, and new partner Sam Kennedy (Ben Chaplin). They begin to piece the case together, forming an unlikely relationship that just gets unlikelier. Enter the complete failure of what could have been a very good film. The main problem is that ...  Read the complete review

Another DVD arrived on my doormat from dvdsontap, and this time it was a film I had heard little about, but what I had heard was good. Sandra Bullock stars in the film, and it is another attempt for her to be seen as a ?straight actress?, and not as the lightweight which as lot of critics and also moviegoers perceive her to be. I think she can be both, I liked her in ?Miss Congeniality?, and I hope that this may be the film where people start to think of her differently. The plot of the film is refreshingly new compared to a lot of thrillers I have seen lately. Basically, it challenges the notion that every murder is commited for a reason, that there is a motive ...  Read the complete review