Jodi Speaks Her Mind

thumbs down 4/20/2002

We saw the movie Murder by Numbers last night. Thankfully, we used free movie passes because I would NOT recommend anyone paying to see this movie in theaters. Okay to rent it but I declare it unworthy of theater-viewing by my standards anyhow.

Now the story itself wasn’t ALL bad, but it was pretty ho-hum. Sandra Bullock was…. well, Sandra Bullock. I like her movies and I like her, but most of her characters are the same. This movie is no exception.

What I DID enjoy were the performances of the two teenage “killers” played by Ryan Gosling and Michael Pitt. Their characters were frighteningly believable as intelligent teenagers psychologically “messed up” enough to commit a murder just to prove that they could do it without getting caught. The rest of the movie wasn’t even as good as any episode of C.S.I., which is one of my new fave TV shows. Perhaps it was my love of the TV show that ruined the movie for me…Anyhow, it was disappointing. I will say that I’ll keep an eye out for the two young actors, though. They showed definite promise!