Suspect Zero Critic Reviews
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Based upon 13 Critic Reviews- Highest Rated
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A grisly, depraved and wholly uninvolving exercise in empty mannerism. Read the full review
A plodding and familiar "cop sees what the killer sees" riff that plays like a poorly inflated "The X-Files" episode.Read the full review
It's merely adequate, with one riveting element but limited chills.Read the full review
The movie's premise is as dopey as they come: A serial killer with a conscience is killing other serial killers. Read the full review
Directed by E. Elias Merhige, the film is never less than entertaining, but Sir Ben's portrayal of a sympathetic psychopath gives it a special zing.Read the full review
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 the full review
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 the full review
Suspect Zero has enough going for it to eventually develop a cult following. But compared to "Silence of the Lambs" and "Seven," it's still the minor leagues. Read the full review
The truth is, the freakiness kinda turns the director on, and he nearly strangles Suspect Zero with love.Read the full review
Finally, a serial-killer movie so preposterous, so garnished with accidental laugh lines and absent essential narrative logic it may actually put a permanent kibosh on this tediously overworked crime subgenre. Here's hoping, at any rate.Read the full review
