Movie_Review__Murder_By_Numbers

Movie Review: Murder By Numbers Cassie Mayweather: Sandra Bullock Richard Haywood: Ryan Gosling Justin Pendleton: Michael Pitt Sam Kennedy: Ben Chaplin Lisa: Agnes Penn Warner Bros. presents a film directed by Barber Schroeder. Written by Tony Gayton. Running time: 119 minutes. Rated R (for violence, language, and sex scene and brief drug use). Richard and Justin, the high school killers in "Murder by Numbers," may not have heard of leopold and Loeb, or seen Hitchcock's "Rope," or studied and of the other fictional versions of the infamous murder pact between two brainy and amoral young men. But they're channeling it. "Murder by Numbers" crosses Leopold/Loeb with a police procedural and adds an interesting touch: Insteas of toying with the audience, it toys with the charactrers. We have information they desperately desire, and we watch them dueling in misdirection. The movie stars Sandra Bullock as Vassie Mayweather, a veteran detective, experienced enough to trust her hunches and resist the obvious answers, Ben Chaplin is Sam Kennedy, her by-the-book Partner, the kind of cop who gets an A for every step of his investigation but ends up with the wrong Conclusion. Paired against murder, movie, cassie, between, sam, richard, justin, young, two, police, numbers, kind, herself, good, film, character, bullock, work, turned, suspect, schroeder, school, scene, sandra, pendleton, partner, pact, obvious, men, mayweather, loeb, leopold, leads, lady, killers