Murder By Numbers

Published 2024-05-05

Film info

Title Murder By Numbers
Director Barbet Schroeder
Year 2002
Run time 2hr 0m
Genres Thriller, Crime, Drama
Tagline The only flaw in their plan was her
Cast Sandra Bullock, Ryan Gosling

A troubled female cop must unravel the perfect murder as she matches wits with two homicidal schoolboys, who believe they can't be caught after committing a motiveless crime. As she gets ever closer to the truth she at once alienates her new partner and puts her own life in peril.

Live blog

Time	Comment
3:11	He seems far too smart for this level of school.
8:53	Following in someone's exact footsteps is harder than you might think.
16:24	She's surrounded by paintings of herself naked that she painted.
20:52	"I hear you finally passed the bar, Alan. What'd they do, change it to true or false?"
34:04	Always so convenient for the matching evidence to have been stolen from you.
39:19	"You're supposed to be identifying with the killer, not the victim."
52:16	Who keeps a baboon as a pet?
1:02:33	It's clever to replace the rubbish with another bag.
1:16:13	Love that she paid out of her own pocket.
1:21:47	They need to stop designing houses where kids can climb out the window.
1:32:07	I don't think pole vaulting is a beautiful sport, it's kinda gangly.
1:34:45	"Did you ever get help for all of this?" "Yea, I became a cop."
1:36:53	Woah, Ron Swanson just appeared as a random cop.
1:43:58	Definitely a risk having bullets in only one gun.
1:52:54	She's so smart.

Thoughts

I've seen this before and love it, it has all elements that appeal to me: a crime drama, a mystery to be solved, and Sandra Bullock being amazing as always. It's not so much a whodunit, because you know whodunit, but it's a how and will they get away with it kind of story. I had forgotten or not realised that Ryan Gosling is in this, he's in so many more films than I realised! But yea, dark crime movie that's a must watch.

Rating: 5 / 5