It's been an hour ago since I've seen this movie. Brilliant actors, magnificent cinematography and a very intense, creepy, dark film…and I love it. I still don't get it, but what the heck. That's what makes it stand out; it makes you think and creeps you in a very absurd way.I was in my normal movie mood day when I saw this DVD in blockbuster and to my surprise, it was a treasure.Eddie Redmayne (Alex) is a fine actor who doesn't need an Oscar to be remembered. His facial expressions and subtle performance in this work of art are good reasons why this film is one of my favorites to date. The headmaster's (Patrick Malahide) and Alex's confrontation scene is staggering; the acting tremendously surpasses the dialogue between Father and son.Toni Collete is a fine actress but she's okay in this film. I guess, she gave what was called for in her character.Like Eddie, Tom Sturridge found his niche in the entertainment scene in this film. He was the other half of the movie. His tenuous act in this movie is very evident in its entirety and a job well done for the makeup artist involved. His innocent-pale-boyish-appearance makes his character more believable and it wouldn't be realistic enough without the help of the staff and crew who made him the heartless and fearless Nigel.Murderous Intent is a must see for audience who are tired of commercially-driven films. Nigel made a lifetime mark on Alex's life and so much so with the moviegoers 'coz I can get off this movie out of my mind. I need to see it again before the end of this week to figure out what really happened, when it happened and who did it.

I passed this film up on several trips to Blockbuster because I disliked the title and didn't care much for the photo on the DVD box. But, Blockbuster showcases so much crap, and I had basically exhausted all of my viewing choices when I finally settled on this DVD. To my great surprise, this is a fascinating movie, with just enough twists and turns to keep the viewer interested. Toni Colette is wonderful and believable in the role of a forensic psychologist tasked with interviewing a murder suspect. Her job: to weave together the fragments of his harrowing narrative in order to ascertain his culpability, which the impetuous arresting officer (he has testosterone seeping out of his pores) is eager to have confirmed. The film is brilliant because it pitches together a smart forensic psychologist who eventually has to pull her dusty textbooks off the shelf to read up on Gestalt, with a young man of remarkable, quiet brilliance and the cunning of a fox at the chicken coop. Well worth viewing.

Yet another weird psychological thriller added to the collection. Nobody talks in clear sentences. Everything the characters say is cryptic and vague and spooky. Nobody can just answer a damn question straightforward. "Did you kill so and so?" Answer: "Did you know back in 1209 the Pope did this and that and the other thing in the Vatican?" Can't anyone in movies act or speak normally? Pure torture. I'm tired of these movies with "shocking" twists that we have to wait for at the end. We're still feeling the effects of the Sixth Sense 10 years later. The Sixth Sense is done let's move on. Toni Collette is prominently featured on the DVD box as if she's the main character. Of course another blatant lie as she's barely in the movie. She's a good actress but she couldn't save this because she wasn't in it enough. The two boys in the clichéd boarding school in a clichéd rainy foggy English countryside are clichéd gay I assume. I'm not sure what their attraction was to each other because as I said, nobody acts like a normal human being or says a normal human sentence so we have to guess what these two weirdos are about. Nobody notices that the one boy is a raving psychopath who dissects animals. This doesn't bother anyone at the school. Why? How could the people who made this movie let that happen? Nobody on the set mentioned how unrealistic that is? The story that I barely paid any attention to moved at a glacial pace.Here's my advice to people who make movies. Make a normal movie about normal people saying normal things. People like those movies. Here's some examples: Sideways. Beyond Sunset. Adaptation. Even the 40 Year Old Virgin is better than this. There aren't too many examples because most people suck at making movies. Enough with the overly weird cryptic spooky creepy crap.

The film starts out very simple, a dead body and a kid as the most likely suspect. Toni Collette plays a psychologist trying to get an idea of whether or not he is guilty. The rest of the film is told in flashback, starting with Alex, the kid suspected, being introduced to the world of Nigel, his new roommate, who believes that he is something more than what people see him as, and he wonders if Alex may be a part of it. From there, the events leading up to Nigel's death is unraveled, leading up to the final climatic ending.This film tries to do what several successful films have done in the past by posing a semi-twist ending. Unfortunately it falls a little short of getting there, and becoming more of an open-ended film to think about, open to your own interpretation.