Suspect Zero (2003)

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Thomas Mackleway	Aaron Eckhart
Benjamin O'Ryan	Ben Kingsley
Fran Kulok	Carrie-Anne Moss
Harold Speck	Kevin Chamberlin
Highway Patrolman	Julian Reyes
Raymond Starkey	Keith Campbell

Review

There are quite a few great films in the vein of E. Elias Merhige's Suspect Zero. And when such films work, they can be both nail-bitingly exciting, groundbreaking creative and thematically interesting. Unfortunately, Suspect Zero fails miserably on the first two accounts. All possible suspense is killed with the disclosed narrative structure, and Zak Penn's script becomes painfully predictable in the process. Yes, there is thematic interest in here, and the Ben Kingsley character is worth a study (if only in the effect of being a Ben Kingsley performance), but the direction is pale as Merhige makes his film look more like a mediocre TV-series than a Seven or a Silence of the Lambs. Neither does it help that the same can be said about most of the performances, with Aaron Eckhart's forced temper and inability to re-act in conversations making his performance more a liability than an asset.