Thomas (Aaron Eckhart) is a big city FBI agent back from a suspension for using excessive force to capture a suspected serial killer. Recently reassigned to a small town office in New Mexico, he is regarded as a hotshot loser. When a traveling salesman is found murdered in his car, with his auto literally on the line of two states, the message that the killer is making this an interstate crime so the FBI will become involved initiates the suspense of the film.

There are real bad guys here who are serial killers and tough guy Ben (Ben Kingsley) appears to be after them. But is he also out to get Thomas? As Thomas works to solve the murder of the salesman, along with some recent kidnappings of children, FBI agent Fran (Carrie-Anne Moss), his former lover is sent to assist him.

Key clues with each crime are numbers that relate to a GPS (global positioning system) coordinate. Thomas experiences flashes of vivid insight into scenes involving deaths, much like a psychic and uses those clues to investigate the crime. Over time, Thomas’s ability to make a mental connection with Ben increases dramatically. There is a calculated reveal that Ben is a former FBI agent, trained in a once clandestine government program called "remote viewing."

The serial killers in this film are people that we as viewers are not able to care about. They tend to be cardboard or stock characters. To be a good villain, the character needs to reach a part of the dark side in us. A recent example of this was Tom Cruise in "Collateral."

Ben Kingsley is effective to a degree in this regard, but maybe his performance is "too good," in that peeking into the mind of a talented former FBI agent who loses himself to his insanity and his zeal to punish, makes you not want to know that person. Fans of the dark side of human nature such as portrayed in "Silence of the Lambs" may enjoy this film. Ben Kingsley wears the bad guy persona much as he did in "Beast" ??? xxx;

Carrie-Anne Moss sheds her action role from the "Matrix" series and returns to the moodiness of "Memento." Aaron Eckhart is the over-the- top cop who does not fulfill the neurotic nuance as Denzel Washington was able to achieve in "Manchurian Candidate."

George’s Take: The film was unnecessarily confusing to follow at times and if the end had a better payoff, it may have redeemed itself. We are okay with bad guys getting away with murder (literally) or if they get their comeuppance, we want to have a sense that some type of justice was achieved. In this case, "Suspect Zero" got off so easy that it makes an opponent of the death penalty want to electrocute somebody.

Pam’s Take: It’s certainly not easy to convey the idea of "remote viewing" to someone. Try to put it together for an interesting, cohesive and entertaining couple of hours of entertainment and your work is cut out for you as a storyteller. But most of us have experienced déjà vu. You know, where you feel like "I’ve lived this scenario, I know what’s going to happen next." Now, suppose those images were horrific and overtook your consciousness non-stop. Where do you suppose your mind might go next?

Bottom line is that "Suspect Zero" is a good movie that did not satisfy.