Boring

best movie i've ever seen.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

I have no personal experience of the dark worlds of espionage and the so-called "security" services. It has intrigued me that the supposed lives and exploits of those who inhabit those worlds have been used to such an extent in books and in films. I have always suspected that the truth is probably too nasty and too boring to make really good box office. This is a film which probably gets closer to the truth of it all than any I have seen. It might be a little bit more violent and it might over emphasise how alone those sort of people are... but it has a feeling of "reality" which is reliably absent from so many in the genre.But that is not all. This film is so much more than a "bang, bang, woop, woop" espionage thriller. This is thanks to the writing, the setting and the performances from the actors. We start with Cusack, inhabiting a grey world with "no life outside" and Akerman tantalising... and yet neither trying nor likely to succeed in re-connecting him with "life". It's not very long and there are no seismic shifts in their surroundings... even though quite a lot of stuff does go bang. Which means that the character development... and there is quite a bit of that... rests entirely on the two leads. It's subtle so don't be embarrassed if you miss it. They do a brilliant job and it's been a long time since I was inclined to applaud.It seems to me that this film is ultimately about redemption, primarily Cusack's but also Akerman's. If anything it's underplayed... but it's all the more effective because of that. I congratulate all those involved in making a film which allows you to care about the characters and which actually has something to say.

This B-movie thriller has the unusual setting of Suffolk as a basis for the typical Hollywood-style action. The action is centred in and around the titular building, which is owned by the CIA and used for broadcasts. The problem is that some traitorous bad guys want to access the system to broadcast their own messages, which is where a weary John Cusack steps in.Cusack plays a burnt-out operative who has been reassigned to an easy duty but finds it anything but. His pretty young associate is played by Malin Akerman, of WATCHMEN fame. The two of them are involved in a cat and mouse game that takes place mainly in dark corridors and the like; the problem is that it's obviously a cheaply-made film and boy, does it look it. There are a few brief faces in support - namely Lucy Griffiths (ROBIN HOOD), Hannah Murray (GAME OF THRONES), Richard Brake (BATMAN BEGINS), and a welcome Liam Cunningham - but mostly this is oddly generic stuff, and not very enthralling.

I thought to give The Numbers Station a chance but I was wrong. John Cusack was the only actor who saved this thriller from a complete disaster. The story is boring and the soundtrack very cheap. It is too overrated and believe me you don't' miss anything. I'm not surprised now that this movie didn't earn a cent at the box-office. This must be an example not to buy again such a DVD when critics here tell already these bad experience.Sorry, but my expectations are higher and for these reasons I give 2/10. I hope I have enough lines to transmit review because there is not much more to say about.

Everybody has seen films about 'black ops' stuff. This film is completely different. In this film you see 'black ops' guys acting like barbarians towards other human beings who did nothing to deserve it. The fact that 'they might compromise something' is hardly a qualifier for shooting down an unarmed teenage girl-which is what the film depicts. The term 'disgraced black ops person' as that applies to John Cusack's character has about as much meaning as a poem from Pol Pot. I have never seen the world of clandestine operations depicted in quite this way before. It of course makes me wonder if it is true. The acting is as usual great from all involved. I think movies are not about the actors anymore-they are about the ideas presented in the movies. This isn't a very glossy film but it is thought provoking-if making people think was the filmmakers objective I think they achieved their objective.