The script isn't really good enough to worry about whether it's being over-directed; in fact, E. Elias Merhige's over-direction is one of the best things about this movie--along with Ben Kingsley's grimly unstoppable killer-of-killers, Benjamin O'Ryan.
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The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
Suspect Zero has enough going for it to eventually develop a cult following. But compared to "Silence of the Lambs" and "Seven," it's still the minor leagues.
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Dallas Observer
Gregory Weinkauf
Merhige is too talented to be dismissed as a wannabe, but here his gifts for clever angles and oogy feelings are tethered to blasé genre redundancies and clunky storytelling. Looks great, less thrilling. I blame the screenwriters.
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Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
The truth is, the freakiness kinda turns the director on, and he nearly strangles Suspect Zero with love.