SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

Glucedee It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

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

Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

saima-85097 The movie begins well and does keep you interested till just the end. At which point you realize that the story is totally flawed!!! There is just no way to justify the story or the murders and other happenings in the movie. The acting is OK.The filming is alright but what to do with a movie that lacks all logic!! Especially when the whole script revolves around lectures of logic and reasoning. The movie is sure to leave you disappointed,dissatisfied and somewhat disturbed if you think even a little while watching it. And anyone who disagrees should and must tell that HOW and WHY does Seldom randomly choose the fish as the 2nd symbol???Because he clearly doesn't know the third one in the sequence as evident by the blank paper and his admittance of the fact that he didn't know at that time.It's very very hard to believe that out of all the symbols in the world he chooses the fish to be the second symbol,all the while being ignorant of the existence of a sequence containing it.Plus,Seldom's ignorance of the series/sequence simply contradicts his stature as one of the math greats out there. The solutions to the murders in the movie that are offered to the viewer are simply unacceptable and unbelievable which is why this movie is a total waste of time. How could this be a book????

SnoopyStyle American student Martin (Elijah Wood) arrives at the University of Oxford looking to have his idol Prof. Arthur Seldom (William Hurt) be his thesis supervisor. He rents a room from Seldom's friend Mrs. Eagleton and her daughter Beth. The women snap at each other. Martin finds a girlfriend in Lorna. Seldom loves Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus stating that there is no absolute truth. Martin tries to impress him by disputing it but Seldom ridicules him. Podorov is a bitter fellow student rejected by Seldom. Martin and Seldom discover Mrs. Eagleton's murdered body at the same time. Martin says he received a note predicting the murder but he discarded it. Seldom supposes that a murderer is daring Seldom to solve the case. Inspector Petersen is confounded by the murder and the math puzzles.I love the whodunit aspect of the story. The addition of math, logic and even a Clue-like game are all great although the math sounds a bit gobberdygoop. It also makes the dialog more clunky than regular speech. The movie goes on a little too long and it doesn't seem to advance for a stretch in the middle. The last act is also problematic. There are no thrills and the puzzle is not something the viewer can solve. I'm often a sucker for a whodunit mystery. This one starts with an interesting setup but it doesn't have much tension or payoff. Adapting this from a novel may have missed some needed cinematic elements.

ignatiusloyala As an Oxonian, this film is really painful to watch. It captured little of Oxford's beauty or intellectual wealth. All it has were a bunch of mediocre actors (save John Hurt) that complement an equally terrible screenplay.I don't know how truthful it is to the original, but I find the attempted wittiness in the dialogues very unnatural and clumsily pretentious. It didn't help that it had Elijah Wood and other unexciting actors to deliver them in the most monotonous way possible. Burn Gorman (the Russian, if you can tell) was a constant eyesore whose character seems to have served absolutely no purpose in the story. In fact, the so-called sub-plots and the characters in them were all unpleasantly and purposelessly distracting that one is left wondering what the story is trying to take the audience to. And then of course there's the main plot, which is full of plot holes. Just to mention one, if the series is common enough to be mentioned in a diagram that takes up half a page of a textbook, how convincing is it for Elijah Wood, supposedly a nerdy mathematician, not to figure the pattern out upon seeing the second symbol in the series? I mean, I don't do maths, but hell, I knew the second I saw the 'fish'.John Hurt was excellent and that's all the good things I can say about this movie. Seriously, if the plot of a murder mystery sucks, you don't expect the movie to go anywhere near greatness. Too bad this film happened to be set in my town and my uni, and let's hope the audience won't think we Oxonians are as dumb.

kluseba The Oxford Murders is a dark crime movie that convinces with a charming location, many mathematic mysteries and puzzles and several twists in the end of the movie that you simply can't see coming.I really liked the unusual technical approach and the scientific and especially philosophical content of the movie as well as the fact that a slow tension is built up that is hold on until the very last seconds of the film. The soundtrack of the movie is interesting and the camera work an interesting nod to the works of Brian De Palma and therefor quite artistic and interesting. This movie got some very good inspirations.But this film also has a few important flaws. First of all, the acting is somehow weak. All characters have different interesting aspects and a good book surely makes these factors evolve but the movie fails to do so. The film is overall too short and the acting is rather mellow. The main actors and especially Elijah Wood seem emotionless and uninspired at some points. You don't feel with the characters that all seem rather antisocial and not very attracting.The characters are simply not develop profoundly enough. Especially the main role should have been developed more: where does the American student come from? Why is he so interested in meeting Seldom? The backgrounds of the other characters are also not very clear. We can't really understand the despair of Beth and the role of her assassinated mother Mrs. Eagleton. The reactions of Lorna are also strange. She meets with her old lover Seldom and the American student Martin in a restaurant even if she obviously can't stand the first one anymore. She doesn't want to get in touch with Seldom or Martin as she says towards the second third of the movie just to meet and sleep with Martin again after a short while and little discussion. In the end, she suddenly wants to leave the country with a young man she barely knows and even though she has a good job. There are many confusing aspects like these that seem random and even strange. It seems as if some important scenes or details have been cut and that there must be a director's cut that explains it all in a better and more coherent way.There are many missed occasions in this movie. The plot is great, the locations are amazing and the budget was there. But the acting is disappointing, the characters remain superficial and strange and the movie seems sometimes too intellectual. Mathematically, there are as many positive points as there are bad points. But as we learned from the movie, not everything can be simply explained by mathematics and that's why I still give a rather favourable rating. The ending reserves many surprises and is definitely worth the wait and there are a couple of truly original ideas in this still very solid European movie. If you like dark British crime movies and surprising plots, you should definitely not miss the chance to check this film out. If you expect a strong acting, an amazing Elijah Wood as in the Lord Of The Rings trilogy or simply several addicting characters, you may be disappointed and should skip this movie.