Richard Haywood, a Californian high school's coolest kid, secretly teams up with another rich kid in his class, brilliant nerd Justin 'Bonaparte' Pendleton, whose erudition, specially in forensic matters, allows them to plan elaborately perfect murders, just for the kick, for which they set up Richard's marijuana supplier, their school's janitor Ray Feathers, as a psychotic serial killer. The case is assigned to detectives Cassie 'the hyena' Mayweather, who carries a sequoia-size chip on the shoulder from her previous life, and her brilliant new partner, Sam Kennedy, who just transferred from... the vice squad; they can work together very well, and even fit romantically, but fall out over different professional attitudes towards the investigation, which Captain Rod Cody and her understandably vindictive abused ex, Assistant D.A. Al Swanson, soon ban her from when she disobeys instructions and hand to him. When the plotting boys both dig class-mate Lisa Mills, their unnatural bond comes under stress- will it break, allowing the hard-pressed police to bring them down?
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Murder by Numbers Good if not exactly original tale of teens killing for the hell of it, directed by a back-to-his-best Schroeder and starring a resurgent Sandra Bullock
Murder By Numbers is based on the 1924 case of Richard Leopold and Nathan Loeb, a pair of wealthy teens who murdered 14-year-old Robert Franks for kicks. This killing also provided the inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock's Rope, Richard Fleischer's Corruption and Tom Kalin's Swoon. With such well-worn source material, Murder By Numbers ought to be as unpalatable as yesterday's chips.
But it's actually a hugely watchable, genuinely suspenseful thriller. A big hand must go to screenwrite...
Think of Murder by Numbers as a classic 1940s double bill uneasily contained within the confines of a single motion picture.
The A-picture at the top of the bill is a fairly standard star vehicle like those that used to be specially tailored for Joan Crawford or Barbara Stanwyck. This one features established diva Sandra Bullock as Cassie Mayweather, a sharp-tongued "get the hell out of my crime scene" type of homicide detective who has to solve the toughest case of her career.
The B-picture at the bottom of the bill is an intriguing study in aberrant psychology that stars hot young actors Ryan Gosling and Michael Pitt as two high school thrill killers ...
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