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"Murder by Numbers" is a psychological triller, where two high school boys want to commit the perfect crime.
Sandra Bullock (Cassie Mayweather) is a cop who has to investigate a crime of a young woman. This crime is a little related to her dark-past, which Cassie (Sandra Bullock) wants to forget.

Sandra Bullock is really deep, and this is one of her best perfomances. You're used to see her making laugh you, but this time, she's a cop with a crude, dark past that she wants, but can't forget...

Ryan Gosling and Michael Pitt's perfomances are really good...Ryan Gosling plays Richard Haywood, the "cool" high school kid who together with his friend Justin Pendleton (Michael Pitt) "the smart one" want to commit the perfect murder, and want to prove they're smarter than the caps.

Ben Chaplin is the new San Benito Police detective Sam Kennedy, who is helping Cassie (Sandra Bullock) in this case.

Surprisingly, Cassie (Sandra Bullock) try to have a "rare" relationship with her partner Sam (Ben Chaplin)...but with all the lack of romanticism...

This movie is rated R, for violence, strong language, a sex scene (it really would be called "sex scene"?) and brief drug use.

Murder by Numbers bolstered by great acting ensemble
Sandra Bullock shows her most versatile side as an FBI agent not generating laughs with pageantry as in Miss Congeniality but as detective Cassie Mayweather who inebriates to soothe her tormented and abused soul. She is cynical as well as spiteful - and subjects men to humiliation. Her latest muse is her rookie partner Ben Chaplin in a thankless role.

Murder by Numbers is essentially Bullock's star vehicle to feature her as a serious actress. She is tough and spare but when her trauma becomes too overwrought and grossly indulged, it butchers the movie to become a melodrama. Director Barbet Schroeder is at his best when deftly constructing the thriller part - closing in on a perfect murder scheme masterminded by a pair of high-school seniors. Cassie engages into a cat-and-mouse game to examine their strangled victim dumped in a river, ward off their deliberately set-up ruse and fence off their advances. The killing seems random but Cassie suspects it to be planned.

Inspired by the 1924 case of Leopold and Loeb which is the source of Hitchcock's Rope, Murder by Numbers is a why-dun-it hence the suspense is left to the grisly atmosphere imbued by Schroeder. Ryan Gosling and Michael Pitt pitch their acting skills to a visceral mode, charging their performance with homo-erotic tension. Gosling is the arrogant Congressman's son with scornful virulence; Pitt is the reclusive nerd who is overshadowed by the cool kid Gosling. The boys' Nietzchean dance of death is eerie and morbid - and Schroeder of Reversal of Fortune paints the deranged with darkness.

Murder by Numbers is thus a promising thriller only let down by the unfocused story-line when it wanders to Cassie's abused past. The pace may be slow but the ride there is one glossed by exceptional performances from the cast.

Dumb and depressing!
This movie is so boring that I like literally found a cure for caffeine overload! Nothing is worth pointing out because there is virtually nothing worth watching iwth this film. Nothing else to say but that this crime borer is one to pass up.