Hey, everyone. "Moriarty" here with some Rumblings From The Lab.
Here's one that I keep forgetting is about to come out. I have to say... I may end up seeing it just because Ryan Gosling and Michael Pitt are in it. Those guys gave two of the best young male performances last year in THE BELIEVER and HEDWIG & THE ANGRY INCH, and seeing them together is enough to bait me into seeing the movie.
Plus I confess... I think Sandy Bullock is purty...
Hiya, guys! TheBlairZip here. Okay, so I got to see another preview last night here in Hotlanta, GA! This time it was the upcoming crime thriller Murder By Numbers, starring Sandra Bullock, Ben Chaplin, Ryan Gosling, and Michael Pitt. Now, I know that Sandra Bullock produced this film, but she needs to learn that sometimes you need to make certain sacrifices in order to advance the story...like not trying to make the whole movie about her character!
The story is about two high school students (one rich and popular, the other smart and anti-social) who formulate a plan to commit murder just to see if they can get away with it. Enter Sandra Bullock and Ben Chaplin as detectives trying to solve the case (once the body is found). The boys have planted evidence, created alibies, and cleaned up after themselves so well that the cops fall for the whole act. But Sandra has a feeling that all is not as it appears to be.
This movie could have been a great little Hitchcock-style thriller, but the movie spends too much time on getting to know Sandra's character rather than focusing on the actual crime itself. You see, something happened in her past that keeps haunting her throughout the film. And we get to know all about it...ALL about it. It just gets rather tedious after a while, especially when you are right in the middle of an intriguing murder investigation and then have to stop that to try and figure out what may or may not have happened to her in the past.
Ryan Gosling and Michael Pitt (Tommy Gnosis from Hedwig) are the real winners in this movie. They play their characters convincingly and with just the right amount of malice. If the script had spent more time focusing on these characters, and kept the detectives there to just do their jobs, this could have been an immensly entertaining thriller. With the way it is, most of the thrill is lost. They should have cut out all the stuff with Sandra's character and made that a separate TV movie for the Lifetime channel. But, I digress. It's still an entertaining movie, nonetheless. I do recommend this movie...but wait for the video/DVD.
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