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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Paramount
EAN: 0097360539448
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 12, 2005
Running Time: 99 minutes
Sales Rank: 78823
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: August 27, 2004
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Description:
In SUSPECT ZERO, FBI Agent Tom Mackelway finds himself caught in a cat-and-mouse game with a brutal serial killer, and all clues point to a renegade agent 'gone native.' Trained by the government to use his psychic abilities to track and capture other serial killers, the renegade is killing other serial killers and claims to be in pursuit of the ultimate serial killer, a man he calls Suspect Zero. As Mackelway becomes increasingly obsessed with his suspect, he must decide what happens when pursuer and prey come face to face – and if rational justice or primal revenge will prevail.
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If you're into serial-killer thrillers, you'll want to see Suspect Zero if only to soak up the genre's reliable penchant for creepy atmosphere and creepier behavior. Dark, anguished, and saturated with superficial style, it's a passable exercise in mystery from E. Elias Merhige, who fared better (both critically and artistically) with his acclaimed 2001 film Shadow of the Vampire. The directorial vision evident in that film is also apparent here, but it's pretentiously over-indulged in a grisly plot about the tormented victim of a secret, psychically abusive crime-fighting program (Ben Kingsley) whose pursuit of serial killers in New Mexico is designed to lure a similarly tormented FBI agent (Aaron Eckhart) and his understanding partner (Carrie-Anne Moss) into an investigation that grows increasingly violent and tragically intense. Like Eckhart's character, you may need a handful of aspirin after subjecting yourself to Merhige's visual excess, but as yet another variant of Seven, Suspect Zero scores points for attempting something different. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Wasted potential
An FBI agent with a troubled past hunts a serial killer. Or so it seems. An interesting idea an a good cast, Aaron Eckhart, Ben Kingsley and Carrie Anne Moss, are wasted on a boring, uninspired screenplay and unappealing characters. There are only a few interesting scenes with a lot of time in between them. The director has managed to create a dark atmosphere, but it doesn't keep the movie from being boring. It feels much longer than its 99 minute running time. I wanted to like it but I didn't. Not recommended.
Rating:  - Alternate ending was better than the actual ending
Ben Kingsley is absolutely fantastic in this thriller; without him I would give this movie *** and I had never really seen him in anything like this movie. Very creative plot that unfolds slowly and I think the alternate ending provided in the Special Features is better than the one selected for the film---such a touch of irony! This film is worth seeing and I think owning although you may want to rent it first to see if you like it.
Rating:  - Psychic Spy
The DVD extras on this disc may be as interesting as the film itself. Hearing the documentary basis for this film with the military's efforts to psychically spy on the Russians and pursue tips gained from remote viewing was extremely interesting.
E. Elias Merhige directs this tale with a psychotic visual style that is intended to be disturbing. Aaron Eckhart who was in The Black Dahlia (Widescreen Edition) & "Erin Brockovich" does a good job as discredited F.B.I. agent Thomas Mackelway; however, he doesn't totally seem to be able to take us into the spooky reality demanded by the script nearly as well as Ben Kingsley. Kingsley won the Oscar in 1982 for "Ghandi" and has been nominated three other times for "Bugsy," "Sexy Beast," & "The House of Sand & Fog." As former F.B.I. agent Benjamin O'Ryan who was one of five psychic spies of a secret project called Icarus, he maintains a search to find serial killers who do not have a pattern and are not easily identifiable. This is "Suspect Zero." Kingsley is positively chilling as he was in "House of Sand & Fog." Carrie-Anne Moss plays F.B.I. agent Fran Kulock who has a past relationship with Mackelway & finds herself suddenly assigned to working a case with him. Moss will probably forever be remembered as Trinity from "The Matrix" series. Harry J. Lennix who was in the last two Matrix films with Moss as well as playing an army sergeant in Across the Universe (Two-Disc Special Edition) plays the F.B.I. boss Rick ... Read More
Rating: - Dull
The film is based upon the idea that the FBI's long discredited `remote viewing' experiments of the 1970s and 1980s were actually successful and drove some of its participating agents insane. One of them, Benjamin O'Ryan (Ben Kingsley) is now, himself a serial killer, albeit a serial killer of serial killers, whom he tracks down by connecting to the images of their crimes in his head, acting as the Charles Bronsonian Avenging Angel (see Death Wish and its sequels) of the film. The film is about his attempts to recruit and groom a replacement named Thomas Mackelway (Aaron Eckhart), from the FBI, as he tracks down a serial killer he terms Suspect Zero, because he has figured out the way to avoid detection is to, unlike most serial killers, constantly change his modus operandi. The first half of the film, where Mackelway is investigating O'Ryan's crimes, is outstanding, with very believable portraits of the two men- far more so than, say, in a film like Heat. O'Ryan taunts Mackelway by fax, to the point where he turns to....an ex-lover, conveniently reassigned by the FBI, from Dallas, to assist Mackelway in his new digs in the Albuquerque, New Mexico office.... This film is about on par with the flawed but daring Shadow Of The Vampire, but Merhige needs to take on more realistic and adult projects, to flex his directorial chops, lest (especially with his initialized `first' name) he merely ends up the B film version of M. Night Shyamalan. That director's bad enough, do we really need a shadow of him?
Rating:  - Weird but Pretty Good
I liked this movie. It had an interesting concept and Aaron Eckhart, Carrie Ann Moss and Ben Kinglsey were all excellent. It isn't a great movie but it is interesting enough and compelling enough for a watch. If you like serial killer movies and lots of suspense check it out.
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