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While reinventing Leopold and Loeb for a new and troubled millennium, Murder by Numbers probes the disturbing psychology of two teenaged murderers and the cleverness of their crime. Like Hitchc...( read more 
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MCT:September 28, 2008Loved Ryan Gosling and Micheal Pitt in this....Sandra Bullock wasn't bad either. But Ryan stole the show...
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MCT:September 1, 2008
This movie is ok.
not really what i was hoping for but still watchable
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Richard Haywood, a Californian high school's coolest kid, secretly teams up with another rich kid in his class, brilliant nerd Justin 'Bonaparte' Pendleton, whose erudition, specially in forensic matters, allows them to plan elaborately perfect murders, just for the kick, for which they set up Richard's marijuana supplier, their school's janitor Ray Feathers, as a psychotic serial killer. The case is assigned to detectives Cassie 'the hyena' Mayweather, who carries a sequoia-size chip on the shoulder from her previous life, and her brilliant new partner, Sam Kennedy, who just transferred from the vice squad; they can work together very well, and even fit romantically, but fall out over different professional attitudes towards the investigation, which Captain Rod Cody and her understandably vindictive abused ex, Assistant D.A. Al Swanson, soon ban her from when she disobeys instructions and hand to him. When the plotting boys both dig class-mate Lisa Mills, their unnatural bond comes under stress- will it break, allowing the hard-pressed police to bring them down?
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MCT:August 31, 200808-24-08 --What seems to be a smartly made movie just turns out to be a murder mystery with a bunch of twists to keep you watching. It was a good movie now don't get me wrong. Sandra Bullock was ok Ryan Gosling was better. By genre this may be a must see for some people.
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MCT:August 11, 2008
Well i'm deeply confused here. This film contains very smart elements enriching the plot, but it's ultra dumb at the same time !
I mean couldn't they just track their phones for example ?
Leads to a silly and predictable hollywoodish finale.
Pretty much fair flick I can say, with some rather good suspensful moments, but we've all seen it before. -
MCT:August 9, 2008
Numbers takes Richard (Gosling) and Justin (Pitt), two high school students at opposite ends of the popularity spectrum and plots them against Cassie (Bullock) and her new forensics partner Sam (Chaplin) in a tale of who dunit murder. Murder By Numbers is a film that opts for a conservative outlook on disturbed psychology. It argues that people don?t kill because their fundamental thinking is subject to such abuse or isolation at an early age that they cannot function in anything other than compulsive ways or maintain normal relationships, but rather that they do so simply out of a conscious choice to be evil or a moral vacuum at the center of their lives. Murder By Numbers is a film that you feel ever so slightly has drawn up firm moral divides about the nature of teen crime. Here the teens are conducting some kind of experiment in amorality. The brillant performances by Michael Pitt and Ryan Gosling. They are bad guys, but they have what it takes to get you to like them. They also like each other. Using each other's weaknesses against one another, it's a game of power and control where often times it seems as if at any moment the pair were going to break out into mad monkey sex. But alas the plot simply was too overburdened in other places to allow such a devilish twist, and we're achingly pulled back into the tired boring cop storyline. Sandra Bullock unfortunately comes nowhere near giving the role the harder edge that it is written with. She's just the same cute, vaguely flustered Sandra Bullock she always is and the character's toughness never extends beyond a couple of scenes where she chews out her co-workers.
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MCT:July 22, 2008Really good movie. It seemed like the perfect murder. Michael Pitt and Ryan Gosling are great in this movie. I can't believe the ending though.
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MCT:July 13, 2008
creepy to see the kid from Funny Games in a similar film. I think this would've been a better film if the story focused on either the killers or the detective, taking on both seemed underdeveloped and unfocused.
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MCT:June 28, 2008Best murder movie ever. The motive based on unbelieveable philosophical background. (Now, people need to be aware how dangerous it is) Gosling is simply amazing!
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MCT:May 18, 2008
Loved the whole weird gay thingy going on.. And the whole 'CSI feel'. Loved everything except the ending. You pick a villian and he falls to his death. End of story? Happy ever after? Noo.. Frail innocent partner-in-crime turns out to be the ultimate baddie. Come on, writer-who-wrote-cheesy-scene, that's so cliched. Oh and despite my loving her performance, Bullock's wardrobe was just plain yucky, seriously. Surely, anti-social, loner crime-fighters can find decent clothing?
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MCT:May 17, 2008
good and solid film with a good pace and good acting by the cast, the only thing i dint understood was the titile, what does it have to do with the movie?
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MCT:May 13, 2008
What does the title have to do with anything in the movie? Whatever, its still a solid story. Ms. Bullock acts a little retarded in the beginning, but she cuts it loose at the end. Worth that third star. Yay.
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MCT:April 28, 2008I did'nt like this movie with Sandra Bullock and she's my most favourite actress, you knew who the killers who from the beginning, I like to guess and figure out who killed the victim.
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MCT:April 26, 2008
Two high school students plot and carry out perfect murders but hot on their tail is Cassie (Sandra) a detective. The movie has a good plot.
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MCT:March 25, 2008
Saw this on TV once and it wasn't too bad. I wouldn't have known it was a take on Rope, which was definately better, but it was fine on its own. I did like the outcome. A little unexpected.
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MCT:March 22, 2008
A clever story of murder and betrayl that unfolds before your very eyes. Engaging the whole way through, this film literally leaves you hanging on the edge of your seat! Well explained and with good development of characters, this film a definite to watch.
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MCT:February 29, 2008
This movie gives its own spoiler, which is disappointing. Bullock's performance is good, but somehow unengaging. I still prefer Hitchcock's approach in "Rope" to this updated version.
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MCT:February 16, 2008
Bullock was great in this one. Good solid film. Gosling was good also. Great film! Keeps you interested. Great film.
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MCT:January 14, 2008
Very good thriller. The story flows very nicely and you can follow it normally, it's not one of those movies you have to crack your head to understand it (The Black Dahlia for instance).
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MCT:December 28, 2007
Murder mystery, Michael Pitt, Ryan Gossling and Sandra Bullock...why are you still reading this, you should already be renting the movie!
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MCT:December 4, 2007
This movie took me by surprise. Wonderful characters, especially Bullock's. Great acting by Gosling. The movie had great flow, story and editing-wise.
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MCT:November 20, 2007
Awesome performance by Ryan Gosling!!! this is the main reason why I rated it so high. Sandra Bullock wasn't right for the role, the story was okay tho.
Richard: "Man cannot live freely without embracing suicide and crime. "
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MCT:November 19, 2007
It's an alright movie, if you like one of the actors, check it out. Other then that it's just ok. Gosling was great again.
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MCT:November 18, 2007Ryan Gosling gives a memorable performance in this otherwise forgetful remake of Hitchcock's Rope. Note to Sandra Bullock - stick to cute and vulnerable, not bitchy/bossy/macho and vulnerable.
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