Genre: Crime, Thriller, Drama, Horror, Murder, Suspense, Serial Killer, Police, Detectives, Psychic, Investigation, Psychos
Tagline: Who's next?
Plot: When Dallas FBI Agent Thomas Mackelway (Aaron Eckhart) violates serial killer Raymond Starkey's civil rights during an unorthodox arrest, Starkey goes free and Mackelway is demoted to a remote branch of the agency in Albuquerque. His first day on the job, Mackelway investigates the murder of a traveling salesman Harold Speck, which turns out to be the first of three seemingly random killings. Or perhaps they are not random at all; the last to die is Mackelway's nemesis, Raymond Starkey.The assignment consumes him. His past mistakes haunt him. His head throbs constantly as he tries to find the link between the victims that will lead him to their killer. The case becomes increasingly gruesome and patently personal. This does not go unnoticed by his unflappable partner Fran Kulok (Carrie-Anne Moss), who knows of Mackelway's past and the demons that afflict him. Like Mackelway, she becomes drawn into the labyrinth of chilling clues, all of which point to the enigmatic Benjamin O'Ryan (Ben Kingsley). O'Ryan clearly has a connection to the murders, a connection he flaunts; quite possibly, he may also harbor a sinister link to
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 Ben Kingsley plays a mad killer in this cheap thriller for the expensively educated.--Stephanie Zacharek (Salon)
Merhige is a gifted director with a good visual sense and a way of creating tension where it should not exist. But "Suspect Zero" is too devised and elaborate to really engage us.  --Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times)
“Suspect Zero” is a first class ticket to dullsville. A bone-dry thriller without any thrills, the plot, which pits a serial killer against other serial killers, is almost too ludicrous for words, and features a director who could care less about it. D--Brian Orndorf (FilmJerk.com)
A film like ‘Suspect Zero’ begs for a rewrite or two, because, if done correctly, it could have been a superbly original film. As is though, it is yet another merely average entry into the ever-growing serial killer thriller sub-genre.  --Joe Rickey (Movie-Gurus.com)
Another by-the-book serial killer thriller that uses David Fincher’s Seven as its guide, Zero takes a clever premise and buries it beneath layers of substandard detective clichés and crude camera tricks meant to deceive us. It’s so desperate to keep us in the dark for as long as physically possible that it finally begins to lose its own way.  --Sean O'Connell (FilmCritic.com)
All told it’s Suspect Zero, Audience Zero, and anyone who’s seen a movie in last ten years, Bored To Tears. --Blake Snyder (MovieWeb)
SUSPECT ZERO is a thriller that really does keep you guessing until the very last shot, which answers many questions while raising one or two others. Challenging, infuriating, hate it or love it, it has the distinction of being unforgettable.  --Andrea Chase (Killer Movie Reviews)
"Suspect Zero" has two good ideas, and it squanders them both. C---Eric D. Snider (EricDSnider.com)
This preposterous, physically hideous paranormal thriller won't be seen by enough people to cover the cost of the press release announcing the deal.  --Jack Mathews (New York Daily News)
The clichéd and pre dictable "Suspect Zero" is the latest evidence that Holly wood has run the se rial-killer thriller into the ground through overuse — the same way it earlier exhausted, say, buddy action-comedies.  --Lou Lumenick (New York Post)
Suspect Zero ends underwhelmingly, not adding up to as much as one is lead to anticipate, but remains admirable in its smart avoidance of a predictable fight/shoot-out.  --Dustin Putman (The Movie Insider)
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