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ODYSSEY VIDEO Murder Without Motive [1992]
Release Date: 2003-06-30, Rating Parental Guidance,
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WARNER HOME VIDEO Murder At 1600 [1997]
The discovery of a dead female staffer in a White House restroom galvanizes a D.C. homicide cop (Wesley Snipes), but the results aren't hard to predict: the crime implicates the Oval Office, the presidential bureaucracy impedes the investigation, and so on. What isn't so predictable is that the whole thing leads to an improbable climax involving secret tunnels created by Abraham Lincoln. (Snipes's character, by the way, is a Civil War buff.) The creaky mystery feels a little anachronistic from the get-go, with some particularly corny and laughable dialogue. <I>--Tom Keogh</I>
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ODYSSEY VIDEO Murder At Devil's Glen [1999]
Release Date: 2003-09-22, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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Universal Pictures Video Murder She Wrote - Season 1
Release Date: 2005-08-29, Rating Parental Guidance,
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WARNER HOME VIDEO Murder By Numbers [2002]
<I>Murder by Numbers</I> is a satisfying, if hardly earth-shattering, addition to Sandy Bullock's CV and the thriller genre in general. While director Barbet Schroeder ratcheted up the tension in his <I>Single White Female</I>, here the action coasts along at a more sedate pace with a tale of teenage murderers that's loosely based on a real incident. (The same incident was the basis for two other movies: <I>Rope</I> and <I>Compulsion</I>. ) <p> Bullock plays seasoned cop Cassie Mayweather, who links the murder of a young woman in Los Angeles to two high-school students. Cassie and her partner (Ben Chaplin) engage in the obligatory game of cat-and-mouse with the two teenagers before the ludicrous finale. It could have been a good film, but <I>Murder by Numbers</I> continually misses the interesting point that this was a crime committed by highly intelligent young men simply for the intellectual thrill of it; instead, it serves up a by-the-numbers thriller with all the trappings of a TV movie. The performances are solid (especially that by Ryan Gosling, who plays one of the murderous teens) but there are so many gaping holes in both plot and logic that the film pretty much manages to disappear into them. <p> <B>On the DVD:</B> <I>Murder by Numbers</I> gets a by-the-numbers DVD release. The normally commentary-friendly Ms Bullock is absent from the chit-chat here, and the director and editor really don't throw up anything of significant interest beyond discussing an extra scene that they claim is included on the DVD but in fact seems absent and giving the reasons why they couldn't use the high school locations originally planned. The DVD also includes the trailer. A good sharp transfer and strong Dolby 5.1 mix are the plus points. --<I>Jon Weir</I>
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