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- 2013
- R
- Image Entertainment
- 1 h 29 m
- 2013
- R
- Image Entertainment
- 1 h 29 m
Summary A CIA black ops agent and the young woman he's assigned to protect fight for survival after a team of heavily armed assailants attack the top-secret remote CIA base where she works as a code operator.
Directed By: Kasper Barfoed
Written By: F. Scott Frazier
- 2013
- R
- Image Entertainment
- 1 h 29 m
- 2013
- R
- Image Entertainment
- 1 h 29 m
The Numbers Station
39
5.4
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Summary A CIA black ops agent and the young woman he's assigned to protect fight for survival after a team of heavily armed assailants attack the top-secret remote CIA base where she works as a code operator.
Directed By: Kasper Barfoed
Written By: F. Scott Frazier
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
39
25% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
38% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
38% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
39
25% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
38% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
38% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
The agent in this interesting little thriller — well played by John Cusack — is up to the Company’s usual dirty tricks.
There are some decent shootouts, but the movie's strongest assets are the soulful performances Danish director Kasper Barfoed, making his American debut, draws from Cusack and Akerman.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 29 User Ratings
5.4
34% Positive
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
45% Mixed
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
21% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 29 User Ratings
5.4
34% Positive
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
45% Mixed
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
21% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
Actually a really suspenseful movie new concept, no overly complex backstory, characters that aren't overexplained. John Cusack carries the movie, the bad guys are bad and believable, the narrative is structured for slow unveil. Worth watching. No clue why the critics hated it.
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Here's the thing: The Num8bers Station isn't a James Bond gimmick-fest. It's not a Wick action-murder fantasy. It's not Tom Cruise flying helicopters into railway tunnels or going for a jog on the 80th floor windows of a ****. It's a spy flick. The plot involves someone, apparently the Russians, using our own intelligence infrastructure against us in an attempt to decapitate the US intelligence services. Because in the world of this film assassinations are commonplace and the ends justify the means, any means, any time, anywhere, and never mind how savage the means might be.
Well, there's at least one guy with a conscience who decides that wholesale slaughter isn't quite what he signed up for.
So the film delivers no glamorous super agents. There are no fist fights or gun battles lasting half an hour. No car chases with people driving off the roofs of buildings. No Cigarette boats jumping from one canal to another. No helicopters flying upside down inside aquariums full of molten lava. No Plenty O'Tooles in bikinis.
It's mostly about this one spook in a bunker. His job: protect the numbers, the codes, the computers, and the woman who runs them. If that's not enough then go look for some guy in a jetsuit. Just follow the trail of centerfold models.
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Director Kasper Barfoed defaults to intense replays of surveillance audio recordings, frantic strokes on computer keyboards, and standard-issue chases.
Sentencing a sad-looking John Cusack and a hard-working Malin Akerman to roughly 90 minutes of solitary confinement in a poorly lit underground bunker, this glum, juiceless spy thriller is a by-the-numbers affair indeed, unlikely to find an audience on any frequency.
Sits awkwardly between shoot 'em up and psychological thriller without offering the excitement of either.
A predictable hodgepodge of uninteresting psychological cat-and-mouse, dimly lighted action.
This dreary spy drama is as flat and airless as the concrete bunker in which it unfolds.
Unfairly maligned by most everyone who seemed to be demanding Grosse Pointe Blank II. This definitely is not that movie. Also not the standard action thriller suggested by the trailer. It is a very good existential portrait of a spy/assassin ground down by the reality of his profession. Emerson Kent could be Martin Blank, 15 years later, if he had missed his high school reunion. Cusack's performance reminds me a bit of John Hurt's anxiety- ridden killer in The Hit (1984).
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Um filme com bons atores mais totalmente esquesivel, infelizmente poderia ser mais caprichado!!!
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When one's professional ethics were tested.
The idea for a film seems good, but it did not work out for this film. The screenplay lacks some good scenes. The suspense was weaker and so the action sequences. Though the film had good actors in the lead and visually looked fine, like the locations. Most of the story was set in a single location, except the opening sequence. Almost a minimal cast film. So it had all the qualities to succeed if the plot was developed smartly.
The story of a CIA's field agent who has been assigned to one of their remote stations in England after he had failed to obey the order from his fellow senior officer. A code operator Katherine, whom he has to protect find himself in a tight position when their building was breached. Once again, his professional ethics are tested, but how he deals the situation is what covered in the remaining parts.
Its most certain that John Cusack days are over in the entertainment industry, just like Nicolas Cage and John Travolta. But it's good to see them at least in small flicks like this. So I did not expect much from it, hence not got disappointed. But I thought it should have been better in a few areas, because I've seen lots of good B movies these days. One time watchable film, but looks like it is a simplified version of 'Wanted'.
5/10
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The Numbers Station had a very interesting plot with tons of potential. The problem was, the movie was actually very boring, I hated John Cusack's take on his character, and the last 10% of the film was just stupid. Addressing each of those issues one-by-one, the bore factor was on the mediocre writing. The setting had the potential for an intense spy thriller but it was badly underutilized. As for Cusack, while I'm normally a fan of his, I didn't like the direction they went with his character. I think a Jason Bourne type of personality would've came across better on the screen. Instead Cusack almost seemed just empty. While I imagine that's what they were going for, it doesn't make for a very good protagonist. Lastly, the ending was just weak. Without getting into spoilers, it just felt unrealistic and almost rushed. For a movie that went nowhere for way too long, everything wrapped up a bit too quickly. Overall this film had some potential but was poorly executed.
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Production Company
ContentFilm International,
Echo Lake Entertainment,
Piccadilly Pictures,
Atlantic Swiss Productions,
Blue Lake Media Fund,
Furst Films,
Matador Pictures,
International Pictures One,
Tax Shelter du Gouvernement Fédéral Belge,
uFilm,
Umedia
Release Date Apr 26, 2013
Duration 1 h 29 m
Rating R
Tagline The code has never been compromised. Until now.
Awards
Golden Trailer Awards
• 1 Nomination
