Beautiful, moving film.

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Suspect Zero is an interesting piece, particularly to me. Although it's almost universally looked at as a failure, a shell of what it could have been, I'm crazy about it the way it is and think they did a fantastic job. It has a bit of a muddy past: Zak Penn wrote the script back in the 90's, after which it gained much interest from the likes of Tom Cruise, Ben Affleck and others. It took til 2004 to finally get the film made, with a version that many frown upon and frankly consider a shitty movie. Balls to them. It's a grim, eerie serial killer chiller with an atmosphere thick enough to slice with a razor, and one extremely unsettling lead performance from a haggard, haunted Ben Kingsley. He plays Benjamin O Ryan, an ex FBI agent. Or is he? He's efficiently hunting down and murdering random people (or are they?), leaving vicious visual calling cards and deliberately leaving victims lying on state lines to ensure the Bureau's involvement. In particular he takes a shine to raw boned Agent Mackleway (Aaron Eckhart), leaving specific clues for him. O Ryan employs a metaphysical method of finding his victims, using an old psychic technique from a scrapped program the feds once explored. This gives the filmmakers a reason to throw sketchy, disconcerting images, sounds and editing our way, providing a visually and aurally chafing experience. The film's director, E. Elias Merhige, is infamous for making the surreal, experimental shocker 'Begotten', and he brings the same stark, discomforting qualities to the proceedings here. I'm reminded of another experimental director who brought a near elemental aesthetic to an otherwise grounded serial killer flick: Tarsem Singh with his brilliant psychological fantasy 'The Cell'. Suspect Zero is the grimy, fragmentary cousin to The Cell's grandiose beauty. There's also traces of Sev7n, Silence Of The Lambs, Millennium and more, yet the film finds its own groove and never sinks into derivative gestures. Composer Clint Mansell ditches his trademark celestial tones for something truly unique, a dread soaked nightmarish lullaby that gives the film an otherworldly tone to linger in dreams. If you can forgive a few instances of murky plotting and one or two cheap plot turns, you'll hopefully enjoy this as much as me. It really deserves better attention and praise than its got so far.

Not knowing anything about this movie before seeing it I decided to see to a spot of detective work and read some of the comments on the message board and found out that it was originally written in the mid 1990s by Zak Penn and did the rounds on the Hollywood pitch circuit . Warning sign number one , if a screenplay is doing the rounds and no one wants to produce it there might be a very good reason for this . When the screenplay did get snapped up it went through several uncredited rewrites . Warning sign number two , the more writers who worked on a movie script the worse it becomes so the signs aren't good The film starts with Ben Kingsley abducting someone . Perhaps this is warning sign number three ? Sir Ben Kingsley slumming it in a movie for the money leaves my spidey senses tingling that there's a bad movie ahead . Some people might add that since it's the opening sequence there's no suspense to be had because we know from the outset who the bad guy is but that's to miss the point that it's an American crime drama . Americans don't go for the Agatha Christie whodunit type of crime drama . Instead American crime drama is a more psychological type of story where the story concentrates on the flawed obsessive detective trying to catch the killer with constant obstacles in their way And this how SUSPECT ZERO plays out as detective Thomas Mackleway tries to track down Benjamin O'Ryan . The problem is that film has a very persuasive and original premise of a serial killer who is hunting down other serial killers . However this is not developed at all well and you're left thinking that you're watching a low grade version MANHUNTER or SILENCE OF THE LAMBS that has psychic pretensions . It's not quite art-house and not quite mainstream but never feels unique or idiosyncratic enough to life itself out the shadows of more better known and better made thrillers

A brilliant serial killer develops a telepathic bond with a disgraced FBI agent who, along with the stalwart female partner with whom he has been recently reunited, tries to figure out all the patterns and catch the killer.Sound familiar? Still, as derivative as this film is, there is enough in the way of suspense, action, intrigue, twists, layers, and semi-original detail to probably make it worth watching if you're a fan of this sort of thing. SUSPECT ZERO does have a few small but prominent plot-holes. While there is a good bit of blatant gore, it is not too gratuitous in that respect.A lot's been said about Ben Kingsley's fine performance, and I agree. Aaron Eckhart's acting is rather staid and stilted, but it's oddly fitting for the character that he portrays. Carrie-Anne Moss does an exceptional job of playing Mackelway (Eckhart)'s stalwart, no-nonsense, but compassionate female partner.

Directed by E. Elias Merhige, Suspect Zero follows the disgraced FBI Agent Thomas Mackelway, who was transferred to a desolate area in Albuquerque, New Mexico as punishment for botching a procedure which ultimately led to the release of one of the most notorious criminals on the FBI's list.It features Aaron Eckhart,Ben Kingsley and Carrie-Anne Moss together with Kevin Chamberlin and Harry J. Lennix.Mackelway is given an opportunity to redeem himself, however, when he is called in to investigate the strange murder of a traveling salesman. Mysteriously, the mark of a circle with a line through it is the only clue that the killer left behind. Before long, the prime suspect is identified as former agent Benjamin O'Ryan, who is seemingly obsessed with hunting down serial killers and murdering them rather than turning them in to the proper authorities. Though Mackelway believes he knows the area where O'Ryan is living, he has no idea what he looks like a problem that the rogue agent exploits with great success. Despite his brilliance, Mackelway finds himself caught in a psychological labyrinth of sorts, and is faced with an even greater quandary after learning that O'Ryan is looking for none other than Suspect Zero, a murderer of hundreds and the FBI's most wanted man.The movie is that rare case of a dull idea redeemed by sharp talent.But other than that,there is not much to like in this preposterous thriller.Probably one could say that this is a visually jarring, psychologically daring trip that explores terror in a fresh, if crazy, manner.But nevertheless,only the cast particularly Ben Kingsley saves this film from a complete disaster.