Murder By Numbers (2002) 8/10

Starring : Sandra Bullock, Ben Chaplin, Ryan Gosling, Michael Pitt, Agnes Bruckner, Chris Penn
Director : Barbet Schroeder
Running Time : 115mins

Highly intelligent students Richard Haywood (Gosling) and Justin Pendleton (Pitt) decide to execute the perfect murder to prove to themselves and everyone else that they are smart enough to get away with murder, but through a series of overconfident errors they start to draw attention to themselves as they are investigated by detective Cassie Mayweather (Bullock) and her new partner Sam Kennedy (Chaplin).

It's fun to watch the two criminals in this movie as they make mistake after mistake in spite of their vast intelligence, but it is Bullocks determination to catch them, due to her own past attack by a serial killer, that make this ever the more gripping. It's a shame that her back story isn't explored further, but the primary story is really enough to keep the movie flowing.

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