The Oxford Murders

It's been almost half a year since I posted a review. I came on here to check the reviews and not one of them mentions basghetti getting eaten off of the woman's chest during sexy times. I don't even know what this site is for anymore.

Wants to be clever, but ends up plain stupid. According to the DVD-cover the director is a master at his craft....??!!!! Nice tits, though.

Repulisvely wannabe-witty dialogue with banal philosophys seasoned with terrible acting and cliché characters.

Goofiest shit I've seen all year, too unintentionally funny to hate -even the dubbing. A 'so bad I'm still waiting for my eyebrows to settle back into place' rating.

Complicated without being complex, pretentious without being intelligent. But John Hurt has fun with it and so we have fun too, and he almost makes us believe that it all makes sense, which of course it doesn't. Elijah Wood looks sensitive and soulful, the girls are pretty, the direction is occasionally flashy and interesting, but--paradoxical for a film about math--the whole is considerably less than the sum of its parts.

Fascinating philosophical ideas abound, but film never manages to gel, due to an overly expositional approach to the material; admittedly the subject matter would be better suited to the page than the screen. The awkward DA VINCI-like killer subplot throws the production seriously off kilter; Hurt is terrific as always, but American Wood feels out of place in this otherwise British production. Unexpectedly graphic sex scenes and language also undermines film's otherwise light hearted tone.

I have to copy-paste this wonderful comment: `Repulisvely wannabe-witty dialogue with banal philosophys seasoned with terrible acting and cliché characters` :)

A mediocre murder mystery pulled down by lousy dialog and worse directing. A particular nuisance is the mathematical/logical/"intellectual" riddles that make the likes of Da Vinci Code seem high browed. Only the location scouter should be applauded on this movie...

Coming across like something a wannabe-hip teacher would show to a class of schoolkids, the overall soap opera quality and gratuitous mathmatical mumbo-jumbo hurl this onto the 'knew I shouldn't have bothered' pile. Becomes almost so-bad-it's-good with two or three (unintentionally) laugh-out-loud moments, and pretty much confirms what I always suspected: Elijah Wood can't act.

I have read the book this movie is based on. I have also read and watched The Davinci Code. They are the exact same bullshit. Instead of arts and histoty, they used math to try appear smart, while using the most stupid cliche story ever. Fuck all of them

Bad acting, miserable plot.

Instead of leaving out 50% of the plot, as film adaptations of novels usually do, this one just dashes through plot and character development like a....I don't know...Something fast...going really fast...I guess. :(

* Casting, Acting : 6 * Script : 7 * Directing, Aura : 5 * Ease of Viewing : 6 * Naked Eye : 6

It was a half-decent murder mystery through a lot of the movie, but the ending was just ridiculous.

That's some fantastic overacting you've got there, Mr. Hurt.

Nice. It tries to be really smart using mathematics to analyze everything. In the end, it leaves things open. Well, it's nice to Wood and Hurt.

a good murder mystery good cast of stars 10 out of 10

Every movie which is somehow related to Pythagoras is better that that stupid movie without reference

What a stupid ending that was..

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watchable

good movie, the math is not that big a deal really

it is not a good movie. it is very complicated and full of math