Suspect Zero

Name: Suspect Zero
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Released: August 27, 2004
Duration: 99 min
Rating: 37
Cast: Aaron Eckhart, Ben Kingsley, Carrie-Anne Moss

2004

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Paramount Pictures | Release Date: August 27, 2004 | R

Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Ben Kingsley, Carrie-Anne Moss

Summary: A thriller about an FBI agent tracking down a serial killer who targets serial killers.

Director: E. Elias Merhige

Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Thriller, Horror, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 99 min

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Kevin Thomas

Merhige understands how exciting going to the edge of credibility can be without falling off, and he has the bravura talent and imagination needed to pull off the sheer, hurtling audacity of Suspect Zero. Read full review

Liam Lacey

The trouble is that the plot is so elliptical to be almost unfollowable (though it helps to have seen the trailer). Read full review

Wesley Morris

Eckhart, who gets more rugged by the picture, certainly works hard to bring the audience along. But he's a nervous wreck for nothing. This movie isn't talking to us, it's talking to other serial killer movies. Read full review

Dallas Observer Gregory Weinkauf

Merhige is too talented to be dismissed as a wannabe, but here his gifts for clever angles and oogy feelings are tethered to blasé genre redundancies and clunky storytelling. Looks great, less thrilling. I blame the screenwriters. Read full review

Keith Phipps

Given nothing to do, Carrie-Anne Moss looks on from the sidelines as the film halfheartedly toys with the tired old notion that only a thin line separates the dogged investigator and the compulsive killer. She looks bored, and she should. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Ethan Alter

It's not easy to make a thriller that's both incredibly convoluted and intensely boring, but director E. Elias Merhige scores on both counts with this lame excuse for a spooky crime story. Read full review

Ann Hornaday

A grisly, depraved and wholly uninvolving exercise in empty mannerism. Read full review

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Diameter

Apr 28, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Revealing mistake

Near the end we are supposed to be seeing the graves of many of the victims of Suspect Zero supposedly killed over years, but all the mounds look fresh.… Expand

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Vial44

May 1, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. There was no Project Icarus in the FBI but it sounds like it was based on the Stargate Project run by the Defense Intelligence Agency. It was dedicated to investigating whether soldiers could be taught to develop psychic powers such as remote viewing. This was treated more humorously in "The Men Who Stare at Goats."… Expand

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Vadertime

Feb 22, 2016

This was a weird and creepy movie. It's another one of those suspense thrillers in a long line of movies about serial killers, except this one has a bit of a twist in it. Ending was very anticlimactic. I found it to be entertaining, but not at the level of "Silence of the Lambs" or "Zodiac".

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ryancarroll88

Sep 28, 2010

"Suspect Zero" is really as bad as thrillers come - it looks and feels like it took its inspiration from daytime television and bad serials. The movie builds tension and suspense, but at no time did I wonder what's going to happen next - I just kept wondering why the movie was going through"Suspect Zero" is really as bad as thrillers come - it looks and feels like it took its inspiration from daytime television and bad serials. The movie builds tension and suspense, but at no time did I wonder what's going to happen next - I just kept wondering why the movie was going through so much effort to get there. Ben Kingsley could be considered a saving grace, but to me the fact that he is in here at all is more an indicator of how badly his career has fallen this decade (just look at his recent filmography).… Expand

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