The Oxford Murders: A very stilted, overly theatrical film, about an eccentric professor (John Hurt) and doctoral candidate student (Elijah Wood) solving a string of mathematically-based murders in and around Oxford University. Based on the book of the same name, this not a thrilling thriller and comes across as a poor man‘s Umberto Ecco. The dialogue here is equal parts pretentious and crap. The people in the film don’t talk and act like human beings, they talk like characters in a bad stage play, nor are 99% of them likable in any way. The reveal is telegraphed out an hour in advance if you’re paying attention and delivered with a complete lack of profundity. Disappointing all the way around. Woodchuck sez, “Skip it.”
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