Murder by Numbers

2002
R
1h 55m

IMDb RATING

6.2/10

64K

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Psychological Thriller Crime Mystery Thriller

Two gifted high school students execute a perfect murder - then become engaged in an intellectual contest with a seasoned homicide detective.Two gifted high school students execute a perfect murder - then become engaged in an intellectual contest with a seasoned homicide detective.Two gifted high school students execute a perfect murder - then become engaged in an intellectual contest with a seasoned homicide detective.

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IMDb RATING

6.2/10

64K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 2 nominations

Videos7

Trailer 2:08

Murder By Numbers

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Murder By Numbers Scenes: You Never Did This In Vice

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Murder By Numbers Scenes: You Never Did This In Vice

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Murder By Numbers Scenes: Work Cut Out For Them

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Murder By Numbers Scenes: Hey, Bonaparte!

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Murder By Numbers Scenes: Run Her Prints

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Murder By Numbers Scenes: Whoever Talks First Is The Winner

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Trivia
The characters Richard Haywood and Justin Pendleton are loosely based on real-life murderers Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold.

Goofs
It is said that there are no fingerprints from Justin or Richard, but they are shown carrying Olivia's dead body wrapped in plastic to the car and neither of them have gloves on, thus there should have been fingerprints from Richard and Justin found on the plastic that the dead body was wrapped in.

Quotes
Justin: All real freedom risks crime. Indeed, freedom *is* crime, because it thinks first of itself and not of the group.

Connections
Featured in Six Feet Under: I'll Take You (2002)

Soundtracks
Smooth Rock
Written by Chris Goulstone
Courtesy of Associated Production Music LLC

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Featured review

6/10

Entertaining Run of the Mill Thriller

Cassie Mayweather (Sandra Bullock) is a homicide detective with a disturbing past, she and her partner Sam Kennedy (Ben Chaplin) are called in to investigate the murder of a young woman found abandoned in a ditch. When everything seems to point at the killer, Cassie's gut tells her that things are not quite as they appear, and the real killers find that they can't hide as easily as they first thought.

Murder by numbers does have some good intrigue and suspense in the plot, and yes it does try very hard to do something a fresh and different, but in the end it just seems pretty run of the mill.

6/10 It entertains and it does have a good cast, but its just not quite sharp enough on the details.