Stellead Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Dorathen Better Late Then Never

Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Predrag Good acting in this one, especially with the leads: Bill Pullman and Kim Dickens who have a great chemistry. A well written yarn obviously with nods to other stories. What I love is that it is an intelligent story with some realism and where the characters use their minds and hearts. There is no chase scene. There is no action. But there is suspense because of the story. That is what makes this movie stand out that Jake Kashdan, could make a really intriguing movie without tricks. Zero actually solves the whodunnit very early on and yet the movie continues on intriguing because of who actually did it and why that person is doing it.It is a new director and it shows some. There appears to be a change in tone. The movie starts out more absurd and then changes as the case gets on. Secondly there are some directorial decisions which are questionable such as a long tracking shot from under a table which has little meaning and detracts. You also have the subplot with Arlo and his girlfriend which could have been eliminated. Films seem to need a whiny woman as a subplot for some reason that I can't explain. All the parts are very well acted, and Stiller is no exception. Bill Pullman does a terrific job, as a the genius, but socially incompetent, and seriously (but brilliantly) disturbed Darryl Zero. There are comparisons to Holmes, including a reference to the effect that he does not have the luxury of having a Watson to record his methods, and chronicle his cases... and so: "I'm forced to do it myself." Like Holmes, he misses nothing and anticipates everything, but the way that Darryl explains his "methods" (in that soft style of Bill Pullman) are so brilliant, and so true, that his explanations (as brilliant as they are) seem so obvious, so as to be humorous...Overall rating: 9 out of 10.

Prismark10 This is a rather obscure and cultish film from Jake Kasdan (son of Lawrence Kasdan). Bill Pullman is 'the world's greatest detective' Daryl Zero. The plot is loosely based on the Sherlock Holmes story 'A Scandal in Bohemia.'Zero besides being a great detective is quirky and a misanthrope. He never meets or has direct contact with his clients. Instead he leaves it to his put upon assistant, Steve Arlo (Ben Stiller).Zero and Arlo are hired by a millionaire Gregory Stark (Ryan O'Neal) who has lost the key to a safe deposit box and is being blackmailed by an unknown person who forces him to follow elaborate instructions to deliver the cash payments.From early on in the film you see Zero is very much a combination of Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes as well as Nero Wolfe. Pullman delivers an intense and yet distant performance very much in keeping with his character. Ben Stiller in an early role plays the everyman role, dedicated to and yet also frustrated by Zero.The film is small scale and enjoyable which depends on its actors to deliver the goods. Jake Kasdan never gets the pacing entirely right and its debt to Conan Doyle is rather obvious.

meshback14 Witty, well written and well done. One of Ben Stiller's best (Mystery Men) performances, and I think Bill Pullman's best to date. Kim Dickens though, she really stole the show as far as I'm concerned. A really moving performance, strong, yet fragile, beguilingly mysterious. The narrative is interesting and amusing, not too studious or too slapstick. Cinematographically nicely done, well shot and apparently accurate geographically, seemed to capture the Northwestern feeling. The elephant in the room, that no one mentions, is that both main characters seem to be suffering from Asberger's Syndrome (or something similar), which can cause savant like abilities to process data, or observations. How else could they deduce what they did. So to me this is an Autistic Love Story.

Frank Dudley Berry, Jr. I am with those of the posters who see this as two different pictures. The opening scenes, and the casting of Ben Stiller, lead the viewer to expect a raucous comedy. But it isn't, and it probably wouldn't have been a good one. In any case, Darryl Zero turns out to be anything but a goofy, off-the-wall, comic detective. And therein lies the point.The 'second picture' is the really good one. It consists of a series of dialogs between two of the characters, in which a tremendous, touching intimacy comes to be. The plot twists are not neutral, but actually touch upon and expand the growing rapport. These are wonderfully intense scenes that are what give the movie its value. The ending is heartbreaking.