Murder by Numbers

Tenacious homicide detective Cassie Mayweather and her still-green partner are working a murder case, attempting to profile two malevolently brilliant young men: cold, calculating killers whose dark secrets might explain their crimes.

Cast

Sandra Bullock

as Cassie Mayweather

Ben Chaplin

as Sam Kennedy

Ryan Gosling

as Richard Haywood

Michael Pitt

as Justin Pendleton

Agnes Bruckner

as Lisa Mills

Chris Penn

as Ray Feathers

R. D. Call

as Rod Cody

Tom Verica

as Al Swanson

Janni Brenn

as Ms. Elder

John Vickery

as Restaurant Manager

Reviews

John Chard

A pact made with relentless fire that requires that, while some live, others die. A modern spin on the Leopold and Loeb case, directed by Barbet Schroeder and starring Sandra Bullock as a cop with emotional baggage trying to prove that two high school kids (Ryan Gosling and Michael Pitt) have com...

JPV852

Decent crime-thriller that I saw back in 2002 (probably in theaters as I did go on a weekly basis back then) and while never really impressed me, still found it watchable thanks to the performances from a young Ryan Gosling (only his fifth film) and Michael Pitt, and Sandra Bullock was alright as a ...

CinemaSerf

This is yet another role in which Sandra Bullock plays a cop on the outskirts of her team. She is "Cassie", a woman with intimacy issues who gets teamed up with "Sam" (Ben Chaplin) whom she toys with as if he were a kitten both personally and on their case to investigate what looks like the perfect ...

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