Suspect Zero (2004)
4/10
Ecch Files
9 November 2005
SUSPECT ZERO (2 outta 5 stars) Intriguing movie about a serial killer (Ben Kingsley) who is stalking OTHER serial killers starts out well... but soon gets way too confusing and hard-to-swallow as it goes on. At a certain point you'll start thinking that this movie was based on a rejected X-Files script. On the killer's trail are a pair of FBI agents with some romantic tension between them. (Doesn't the FBI have policies against people in a relationship working together? Heck, they must be the only place of business that *doesn't* these days.) One of them (Aaron Eckhart) develops a mental link to the killer they are hunting but, of course, no one believes that the agent's "visions" can possibly be worth investigating. The only thing that keeps this movie at all interesting is Ben Kingsley's attempt at doing a Hannibal Lector kind of role. I admire Kingsley for taking on a role so far from his usual "serious" parts and for giving it his all... but what in the world made him choose this script? His performance really belongs in a much better movie than this.
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