Peereddi I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.

Cunninghamolga This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Cheryl A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

tubeist- dan Pierce Brosnan is a college professor who teaches a creative writing course that requires students to actually write a plausible murder scenario. A complication is that the prof himself actually wrote a book implicating a friend in a murder, for which his friend is found guilty and sent to prison. There is a twist at the very end of this really good-cinema quality-movie that has had only passing reference here among the User reviews, so this critique seeks to explore that twist in more detail.Spoiler A number of reviewers have mentioned the twist at the end without specifying whether they are alluding to the conventional penultimate twist-the one we never suspected-or the finale in the last 30 seconds leading up to the credits.One reviewer found this the same device as in Chicago Joe and the Show Girl, but in fact that movie was content to keep jiggling the fourth wall. Murder101 does not do that until the last moment, where the wall is not merely jiggled but sort of turned into the conceptual equivalent of a time-loop. It seems the outer movie, the one we are watching on our screens, is but a tableaux to present a movie-in-the-making, a movie that lo and behold was based on a screenplay developed from the murder-assignment of one of the Prof's students, who plays an integral part in the piece himself.I can't think of this as nothing so much as a cinematic analogue of Escher's mutually drawing hands. Everyone character in the movie is in fact also an actor playing... their own part, and to make that clear at the close, the dolly-shot backwards reveals not merely the set boom-mike, but some of the 'dead' victims as very well and alive.This leads to a furious amount of re-thinking, after the movie, of everything presupposed, including plot-'holes' (eg. It had bothered me that the clever student had a cast-iron alibi-he was giving a presentation, at the time of Francesca's death, so the Prof had let off his suspicion; so why did he re-adopt his suspicion later on?), yet are these holes in the movie itself? Or are they defects in the self-referencing 'student's' self-referencing assignment-turned-movie script?And it would explain something that bothered me: the student had written an absolutely STELLAR assignment; probably the most block-buster assignment any undergrad had ever written anywhere, ever. I was expecting with its impending cover-page reveal to see an "A+". Why only an "A"? Because a few... plot-holes?

sol ***SPOILERS*** Gem of a whodunit that will keep you guessing right up to the closing credits and even then make you wonder just how those making the film "Murder 101" came up with it. Creative writing professor Charlie Lattimor, Pierce Brosnan, has been writing both fiction and true life crime stories where he's now one of the most read and celebrated crime novelists in the country. It turns out that a book Charlie just had published about a good friend of his Tim Ryder, J. Kenneth Campbell, whom he with the evidence he unearthed for the police help convict of his wife's Mrs. Anne Ryders, Terry Markwell, murder would later in the film come back to haunt him.With Ryder put away for life and Charlie's book about his crime hitting the top of the best sellers list things couldn't be better for Charlie but due to circumstances beyond his control they aren't with his estranged wife Laura, Dey Young. Laura is engaged to the pompous and sneering Harry Potter, Mark L. Taylor, who besides being a big pain in the behind to Charlie is now his boss at Hempstead Collage as it's head of its English Department. It's there where Harry ins in the perfect to make Charlie's life miserable. The very handsome and witty Charlie is also not immune to the romantic feeling and fantasies that some of his young attractive and sexually active female students have for him, which he can hardly resist. One of those students is Francesca Lavin,Kim Thompson, who's really got the hots for Charlie and doesn't mind, in fact she wants, the entire town to know about it even his wife and soon to be husband the obnoxious and snooty Harry Potter.All these what seems like unrelated items soon fall into place when Charlie decides to have his students write an essay on pulling off the perfect crime. One of Charlie's students the nerdy Robert Miner, Raphael Sbarge, decides in his work assignment that the now convicted Tim Ryder was the victim of one; a perfect crime that he was framed by the person who committed it to take the blame for. Charlie not finding Robert's accusations of him being part of Tim Ryders frame-up funny at all tries to disprove his absurd theory. As hard as Charlie does in trying to disprove it that fact that Ryder was set-up and framed for his wife's murder it becomes more and more evident with Charlie ending up in the same boat later in the movie; a pasty for a murder that he didn't commit but can't prove that he didn't.The movie, or Mrs. Ryders real killer, slowly sets Charlie up for the kill by having him spend the evening with hot to trot Francesc who's maneuvered, without her or Charlie knowing, into not only having an affair with him but being strangled in the same motel-room that she and Charlie are spending the night together! With Hampstead police chief and good friend Mike Dowling, Antoni Corone, having no choice but to arrest Charlie for Francesc's murder Charlie becomes a fugitive from the law having his wife hide him out until he can find out who set him up. Still the biggest surprise is yet to come when the man who Charlie feels curtain was the one who murdered Francesc and framed him for it turns out the be the killers next victim with, as you would expect, Charlie also being the prime murder suspect.The film leads up to where we find out just who the killer of both Mrs. Ryder and Francese as well as another person, that shall remain nameless, really is. The biggest and most unexpected surprise in the film is that the whole string of events,and murders, were skillfully and unknowingly planned far in advance with everyone, but those of us watching the movie, somewhat subconsciously knowing just what the outcome would be! That more then anything else is what makes "Murder 101" the real shocker that it eventually turned out to be.P.S There was one glaring inconsistency in the movie that almost ruined it for me and that was when Charlie was on the run from the police he found time to visit the convicted Tim Ryder in prison! This without the prison administrators guards and not to mention the local police not as much as having a clue that Charlie was at the time a fugitive from justice!

Judith-4 This movie has a professor teaching students how to write a good mystery story, yet it doesn't play fair with its audience. SPOILER MAYBE. When I first saw this movie, I could tell halfway through that it wasn't playing fair, so I was able to figure out who the killer was, someone you not only wouldn't suspect but someone you shouldn't have suspected. Someone gets murdered in the movie, but it doesn't accomplish the killer's purpose, whereas killing someone else would have. There are also implausible incidents where the killer has opportunity or when they don't really have time to show up when they do. Also, the professor behaves stupidly when first confronted with his dilemma. Finding a body does not automatically make you the prime suspect. All in all, a badly written plot and the characters are not interesting enough to make up for it.

Jan Lipsansky I saw this movie in terrible Czech dubbing, but there are good jokes and satire in this movie which is difficult to erase. Slow motion in story but great in atmosphere, cast and in total feeling. And if you are a fan of Pierce Brosnan, don't miss this movie.