Agnes Bruckner, Ben Chaplin, Chris Penn
The body of a young woman is found in a ditch in the woods of the small California coastal town of San Benito. Cassie Mayweather, the seasoned homicide detective and tenacious crime scene specialist i...( read more
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DVD Release Date: September 24, 2002
Stats: 1,826 reviews
Murder by Numbers is certainly a by the numbers thriller. Two teenagers plan out the perfect murder. Just like the Hitchcock classic, Rope. Unlike that film, Murder by the Numbers has none of the intensity or dread. Gosling and Pitt make an excellent disturbed duo and play their ...( read more)
Numbers takes Richard (Gosling) and Justin (Pitt), two high school students at opposite ends of the popularity spectrum and plots them against Cassie (Bullock) and her new forensics partner Sam (Chaplin) in a tale of who dunit murder. Murder By Numbers is a film that opts for a c...( read more)
Great thriller! Michael Pitt and Ryan Gosling have the most amazing chemistry.
Two high school students plot and carry out perfect murders but hot on their tail is Cassie (Sandra) a detective. The movie has a good plot.
I love this film and have watched it over and over, Ryan Gosling and Michael Pitt play great roles as young school kids plotting a more than perfect murder.
I much prefer seeing Sandra Bullock in this kind of film and of course co-staring is British Actor Ben Chaplin.
No ...( read more)
Kind of odd... just, eh... and any movie where I figure out the "twist ending" before it happens is pretty average.
The bright spot I thought was Ryan Gosling.
And why is it when Female Detectives are smart, great detectives something traumatic has to have happened in their past...( read more)
A respectable but uninspired thriller that's intelligent and considered in its details, but ultimately weak in its impact. full review
Bullock does a good job here of working against her natural likability. full review
What's missing in Murder by Numbers is any real psychological grounding for the teens' deviant behaviour. Being latently gay and liking to read are hardly enough. full review
Follows well-worn paths of the cops-and-psycho-killer routine. full review
Bullock ... seems to have nothing deeper in mind than doing a sappy big-screen version of TV's CSI. full review
A really good thriller! Better than I thought it would be. The actingwork was good, and the story as well. Unpredictable, I liked it.
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