Great idea destroyed by lack of focus, poor character development, unnecessary effects and hard to follow plot.
Honestly, I was trying to keep my attention on this film as I thought it would like Se7en. I'm a fan of Aaron Eckhart and Ben Kingsley, but poor guys got sucked into this crappy film.
Like Se7en, Suspect Zero tries to use fillers to show the psychotic break down of the character BUT sadly this film lacked in having a focus that made it everything but epic.
Suspect Zero tries to create suspense with music and artistic shots of drawings/playgrounds/deserted locations/close ups/choppy sequences of flashbacks. This would have worked if the entire film wasn't so filled with these artistic elements and barely any story line. It was like 80% artistic fillers and 20% story.
The character development was odd. At first Fran and Tom (Eckhart) was at each other's throats about some conflict in the past and Fran showing lack of patience with Tom. Then for whatever reason, after Tom gets crazy over the case, the two reconnects in this overdramatic scene. I couldn't connect with this scene because there was no transition between the two characters' relationship with one another. Also the connection between Tom, O'Ryan and the mystery truck drive was confusing. Then again, people would say you could just imagine the gaps, but this film seems to rely on audience imagining most of the gaps.
Aaron Eckhart and Ben Kingley were good, held up the movie despite the flaws.
Average.
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