Directed by E Elias Merhige who made the intriguing Shadow of the Vampire comes another film with an intriguing premise.Aaron Eckhart plays a FBI agent Tom Mackelway who seems to have been downgraded after being suspended. He has moved to the Albuquerque office and immediately starts investigating a killing.He also starts receiving faxes about unsolved crimes. Mackleway seems to have some sort of empathy and vision regarding what seems to be random acts of murder but some of the clues point towards an ex FBI agent O'Ryan (Ben Kingsley) who might be a suspect or can see in the mind of a super serial killer and wants to assist Mackleway in catching him.The film starts promisingly enough but it quickly became muddled and confusing. At times I had to rewind parts of the film and put the volume up to understand it. The muddle lets the film down, Eckhart and Kingsley are fine, Carrie-Anne Moss is wasted.

Directed by E. Elias Merhige, Suspect Zero follows the disgraced FBI Agent Thomas Mackelway, who was transferred to a desolate area in Albuquerque, New Mexico as punishment for botching a procedure which ultimately led to the release of one of the most notorious criminals on the FBI's list.It features Aaron Eckhart,Ben Kingsley and Carrie-Anne Moss together with Kevin Chamberlin and Harry J. Lennix.Mackelway is given an opportunity to redeem himself, however, when he is called in to investigate the strange murder of a traveling salesman. Mysteriously, the mark of a circle with a line through it is the only clue that the killer left behind. Before long, the prime suspect is identified as former agent Benjamin O'Ryan, who is seemingly obsessed with hunting down serial killers and murdering them rather than turning them in to the proper authorities. Though Mackelway believes he knows the area where O'Ryan is living, he has no idea what he looks like a problem that the rogue agent exploits with great success. Despite his brilliance, Mackelway finds himself caught in a psychological labyrinth of sorts, and is faced with an even greater quandary after learning that O'Ryan is looking for none other than Suspect Zero, a murderer of hundreds and the FBI's most wanted man.The movie is that rare case of a dull idea redeemed by sharp talent.But other than that,there is not much to like in this preposterous thriller.Probably one could say that this is a visually jarring, psychologically daring trip that explores terror in a fresh, if crazy, manner.But nevertheless,only the cast particularly Ben Kingsley saves this film from a complete disaster.

In the world of suspense and drama, there are all sorts of sub-genre. File this one under psychic possibilities. Aaron Eckhart is a troubled man, a disgraced agent who the agency has decided can keep his badge, as long as he accepts a post in a remote station, out of the spotlight. Beside the stigma of being an agent who lost control and violated a suspects rights, he has headaches. Constant, severe headaches. And they aren't getting better. His supervisor is used to seeing this kind of agent, he knows the drill, probably left in charge of this office from a past problem of his own. I've read other reviews that seem to pan this film, and I have to agree it is not for everyone. The premise is unnerving, to say the least. And it is based to some extent in truth. There was a time when the U. S. government conducted experiments in Remote Viewing, a psychic phenomena where people with no prior knowledge of an area are tasked to report on things that are occurring in an enemy camp. The government has said this project was abandoned, since it proved to produce less than accurate results. But what of the remote viewers who were accurate? What happens to someone who is taught to look into the minds of serial killers and is never taught how to turn it off? Ben Kingsley gives a haunting performance as Ben O'Ryan, a former remote viewer now turned serial killer. Aaron Eckhart is the disgraced agent, targeted by O'Ryan to replace him. It's a film worth watching once if you are a believer in psychic phenomena. Otherwise, you might want to look for something else.

Emotional, suspenseful, somewhat gory and, unfortunately, subject matter that will probably always be relevant. Crazy rapist/murderer/child abductor, those things I cannot even begin to get into. As far as remote viewing is concerned, who knows? Our minds have such untouched capabilities. Its almost indisputable that certain people have what appears to be unnatural insights, but are they really unnatural? Uncovering the source of these discernments would certainly be revelatory. Could it be genetics? How about a God given Spirit driven talent only for the chosen? Maybe we all have the ability, same as walking or talking, but we have been over-socialized and under-transcendentalised.Aaron Ekhart and Carrie-Ann Moss were just OK as two FBI agents/love interests working together, once again, after experiencing problems in another field office. Ekhart definitely had his moments but Moss never did seem to commit to her role, as she usually does.Ben Kingsley, on the other hand, was absolutely brilliant, as usual. I even teared up at the end, empathizing with the pain he felt regarding sticking around in a world where one would continuously perceive the anguish of past brutality. In fact, it might have benefited the storyline, I think, to have examined his character's experiences just a bit further, maybe in a sort of abstract way. In my very inexperienced opinion, the movie would have benefited from more time with Kingsley's character, for the sake of further developing his character, and just for the quality of this film. But, what do I know? Ben Kingsley rocks!