Due studenti di liceo progettano e portano a termine un delitto perfetto, per poi imbarcarsi in una lotta mentale con una veterana detective della squadra omicidi.Due studenti di liceo progettano e portano a termine un delitto perfetto, per poi imbarcarsi in una lotta mentale con una veterana detective della squadra omicidi.Due studenti di liceo progettano e portano a termine un delitto perfetto, per poi imbarcarsi in una lotta mentale con una veterana detective della squadra omicidi.
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- ConnessioniFeatured in Six Feet Under: I'll Take You (2002)
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I definitely liked this movie, despite several flaws. The premise is fairly original (although Hitchcock's "Rope" inmediately comes to mind), the pace is fine, and the acting is overall great, with a 22-year old Ryan Gosling standing out in his multi-layered portrayal of the self-assured, manipulative, spoilt rich kid Richard. And in my opinion Sandra Bullock did a pretty convincing job (while watching her is by the way always a treat). I even liked the cliché shoot-out ending, it gave this otherwise low-on-action movie an exciting finale.
What did annoy me however, was the way Bullock's character detective Cassie Mayweather was written. Why this elaborate traumatic background?! It did not serve any purpose for the central story of the movie (the ordeal in her past being totally different from the crime that she now had to investigate) but did take lots of screentime. I guess it had to explain her cranky behavior, and maybe her apparent casual attitude to sex. But she was also pictured as a brilliant professional detective. So why this totally inappropriate sexual harrassment of her newbie partner? Or the innuendos of a sensual attraction towards her major crime-suspect?
It's a strange convention in so many crime-movies, that detectives on duty have to have some troublesome past or an addiction or a conflicting bad divorce or whatever, I always yawn when yet another one of these traumatized police-officers comes along. Either make it essential to the story, or leave it, I would say.
Anyway, as an interesting psychological portrayal of two young wannabe killers, and as an extended well-acted CSI episode, it made for an entertaining but slightly overlong two hours.
What did annoy me however, was the way Bullock's character detective Cassie Mayweather was written. Why this elaborate traumatic background?! It did not serve any purpose for the central story of the movie (the ordeal in her past being totally different from the crime that she now had to investigate) but did take lots of screentime. I guess it had to explain her cranky behavior, and maybe her apparent casual attitude to sex. But she was also pictured as a brilliant professional detective. So why this totally inappropriate sexual harrassment of her newbie partner? Or the innuendos of a sensual attraction towards her major crime-suspect?
It's a strange convention in so many crime-movies, that detectives on duty have to have some troublesome past or an addiction or a conflicting bad divorce or whatever, I always yawn when yet another one of these traumatized police-officers comes along. Either make it essential to the story, or leave it, I would say.
Anyway, as an interesting psychological portrayal of two young wannabe killers, and as an extended well-acted CSI episode, it made for an entertaining but slightly overlong two hours.
- johannes2000-1
- 21 giu 2022
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- Celebre anche come
- Murder by Numbers
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- Budget
- 50.000.000 USD (previsto)
- Lordo Stati Uniti e Canada
- 31.945.749 USD
- Fine settimana di apertura Stati Uniti e Canada
- 9.307.394 USD
- 21 apr 2002
- Lordo in tutto il mondo
- 56.714.147 USD
- Tempo di esecuzione1 ora 55 minuti
- Mix di suoni
- Proporzioni
- 1.85 : 1
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