Suspect zero film wikipedia

We should be grateful, I suppose, when the serial killers in movies pause in their carnage long enough to concoct elaborate webs of clues, hints and tantalizing challenges for their pursuers. Lives may be saved because of the time it takes them to plant enigmatic clues, send cryptic faxes, and pose for extreme closeups in which they look like some guy in a photo booth trying to look tortured.

The serial killer or killers in “Suspect Zero” have obviously spent a lot of time watching old thrillers.

They have learned in particular that it is important to zero in on one particular lawman, show that they’re familiar with his secrets, and then challenge him to stop them before they kill or fax again.

In “Suspect Zero,” the fated target is FBI agent Thomas Mackelway (Aaron Eckhart), who got in some kind of trouble in Texas and has been demoted to New Mexico.

He chews handfuls of aspirin to ease his pain, as Travis Bickle did in “Taxi Driver“; thi