Suspect Zero - In the Assassin's Eye

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Movie
German title Suspect Zero - In the Assassin's Eye
Original title Suspect Zero
Country of production USA , UK
original language English
Publishing year 2004
length 99 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director E. Elias Merhige
script Zak Penn ,
Billy Ray
production Paula Wagner ,
Gaye Hirsch ,
Tom Cruise (anonymous)
music Clint Mansell
camera Michael Chapman
cut John Gilroy ,
Robert K. Lambert
occupation

Suspect Zero - In the Eye of the Killer (Original title: Suspect Zero ) is an American thriller from director E. Elias Merhige ( Shadow of the Vampire ) from 2004. The film came on 27 August 2004 in the US and in German cinemas on October 14, 2004 .

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FBI agent Thomas Mackelway was transferred to remote New Mexico because a serial killer was released through his mistake. As soon as he arrived at his new post, he received mysterious, anonymous faxes with reports of missing persons. The faxes have comments such as: Look carefully or just a circle with a line through it.

A sales representative is killed and Mackelway is investigated because the car with the body is parked exactly on the border between two states and the FBI is therefore responsible. At the scene of the crime he finds the same crossed-out circle as on the disturbing faxes.

Further murders and clues lead Mackelway and his partner Fran Kulok on the trail of the lonely psychopath Benjamin O'Ryan.

O'Ryan has the capability of remote viewing , a mixture of clairvoyance and remote viewing . He is said to have learned this skill in a CIA program. He is also said to have been an FBI agent himself, but there is nothing about him in the files. Obviously he is out hunting other killers, killing them and removing their eyelids. He sends Mackelway various clues as faxes from missing people in order to lure him on the trail of the psychopath Suspect Zero, who is randomly murdering through the country, and apparently his own.

Mackelway manages to contact Benjamin O'Ryan and meet him. Together they set out to find out where the killer lives. You drive to the house and notice many graves of the missing persons on its property. Suddenly the killer appears and they see that it is a truck driver who has meanwhile found a new victim. He notices them and flees with his truck. But they still manage to catch the killer and kill him.

But now there is one last showdown between O'Ryan and Mackelway, in which O'Ryan demands that he kill him because he can no longer bear the voices and visions in his head. When Mackelway refuses, O'Ryan points his gun at Mackelway. Suddenly Mackelway's colleague and ex-wife Fran Kulok stands behind O'Ryan and shoots him to save Mackelway.

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Movie reviews

  • The lexicon of international films says: "A promising thriller in terms of staging, but whose initially intense atmosphere only increasingly turns out to be window dressing in order to conceal the unsurprising plot."
  • The reviewer of the Berliner Zeitung found that Ben Kingsley played the other actors smoothly against the wall. The story is unnecessarily complicated and the film technology (bold cuts, alienating lighting and perspectives) is also presented in an "utterly mysterious" way.
  • The Hamburger Morgenpost saw a "visually convincing, but rather absurd serial killer thriller with a brilliant Ben Kingsley".
  • BZ took the director to court even more severely ; she sees in his work the half-baked finger exercises of a would-be avant-gardist .
  • “Not a bad film” was seen on filmbessprechungen.de . Although the film reveals a lot too quickly at the beginning, the director manages to create a convincing atmosphere. According to the online magazine, Oscar winner Ben Kingsley was also completely convincing.
  • Deike Stagge found the film “absolutely average” on filmstarts.de . She wrote literally: "Fans of the genre will certainly get their money's worth, but not really challenged."
  • Roger Ebert was a little bored when he saw the film. He thinks E. Elias Merhige is a really talented director, but in this film all the effects only served to cover up the weaknesses of the story, wrote the film critic in the Chicago Sun-Times .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Suspect Zero - In the eye of the murderer . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2004 (PDF; test number: 99 933 K).
  2. ↑ Suspect Zero - In the Assassin's Eye. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ criticism. In: Berliner Zeitung , October 14, 2004
  4. ↑ criticism. ( Memento of the original from August 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Hamburger Morgenpost , October 14, 2004 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / archiv.mopo.de
  5. ↑ criticism.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: BZ , October 14, 2004@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.bz-berlin.de  
  6. ↑ filmbessprechungen.de ( Memento of the original from November 28, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.filmbessprechungen.de
  7. ↑ filmstarts.de
  8. ↑ rogerebert.suntimes.com