lunedì 20 luglio 2015

Suspect Zero - 2004

Not really that much, I thing that with other actors I wouldn't have watched it to the end. I stayed because Ben Kingsley portrayed a very interesting madman. There is also Aaron Eckhart, not bad himself, and with wet hair he also looked kinda sexy, which was a nice plus.
Eckhart is Tom Mackelway, an Fbi agent suspended because he assaulted a rapist and in trial, because of this, he walked free (yep, that's the world we live in). Now he's here to work with Rich (Harry Lennix) and Fran ( Carrie-Ann Moss). The fact that Tom and Fran have a past together, and he's still in love with her, is completely useless in the movie.
They start to find bodies killed in the same way, at least three, one of them being the rapist Tom knows so well, and that was actually raping a poor girl when his killer stopped him. Good timing.
Tom is personally involved because this person sends him drawings, faxes, directly to him. Eventually Tom realizes that this Benjamin O'Ryan (Kingsley) is killing serial-killers.
O'Ryan knows what they are because he was in a special program of the Fbi, project Icarus, and he can see them, their actions, with his 'special sight'. Actually he has no choice, he doesn't know how to stop his visions anymore, he's gone mad, and has killed some of them to stop it. Tom shares a bit of that ability, and O'Ryan knows this better than he himself does. When Benjamin gets Tom, and threatens to kill him, Tom is not scared because he's convinced that O'Ryan kills only the guilty. He was right. Benjamin frees him and shows him the 'suspect zero', the ultimate serial killer, that has killed so so many without trace. Tom runs after him, they fight and Tom beats him to death. He can't believe what he has done, and refuses O'Ryan words that they are the same. O'Ryan can't live with all that pain and asks him to kill him, but Tom wouldn't; O'Ryan then pretends to attack him so that Fran would shoot him to save Tom. It's absurd that Fran could really be there in such a short time: he just called her and they appear to be in the middle of nowhere!
She saves the kid that would have been the latest victim, but still manages to find them on time.
Now, the movie has many boring moments in which we just look at Tom being consumed by this obsession and by his headaches, plus many boring-and-unclear moments that represent all the pieces of visions both of them have. Really too much.
Fran was a useless character, that served no real purpose at all. Only things I really liked , here, were cute Aaron and all of Kingsley's scenes.

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