The Oxford Murders details
| Format: | 15 DVD |
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| Starring: | John Hurt, Elijah Wood, Leonor Watling, Julie Cox, Burn Gorman, Anna Massey, Jim Carter, Jim Carter, Alan David, Dominique Pinon |
| Director: | Alex De La Iglesia |
| Genres: | Drama - General, Thriller - Mystery |
| Name | Discs | |
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The Oxford Murders |
15 Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 47 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 01 Sep 2008 |
| Main languages: | English |
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Intelligent whodunnit
By a customer from London , 04 May 2008[Highly rated reviewer]
An American PhD student (Elijah Wood) arrives in Oxford hoping to have his thesis supervised by legendary mathematician Arthur Seldom (John Hurt). Instead, the two of them become tangled up in a series of murders with mathematical clues leading to a place neither of them suspects...
This is an intelligent whodunnit, and keeps to the spirit of the book despite a few changes. Both the leads do a great job and the pace and the tension are kept up throughout. A thoroughly entertaining film (spot the slightly gruesome cameo appearance from cult film director Alex Cox!), good story, excellent direction and nice performances.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(235)Don't bother.
By a customer , 13 Jun 2012I thought this film was going to be an underrated piece of brilliance, that maybe everyone had it wrong because they misunderstood it. I was wrong. The storyline could have been great but the acting performances (which I suspect was something to do with the director) were stilted and unconvincing. I sat throughout the whole film asking myself why I hadn't turned it off and it was because I thought that maybe, just maybe it would get better in a minute. It really didn't. It got worse as the seconds ticked by and by the time the inevitable conclusion came round I sat there stunned at the sheer rubbish that I had just made myself watch.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Tries to be needlessly intellectual
By MrAndyC (91 reviews) from York , 08 Mar 2012Although watchable I found that this film was trying to be more intelligent than it needed to or could achieve.
There was a lot of discussion about logic and the Fibonacci sequence which made it feel like it was written by a Mathematics/Philosophy undergraduate. Often far more reference that was required which may needlessly alienate some viewers.
The underlying story could have been taken out of an average episode of Inspector Morse. The only real redeeming feature which brings it up to 3 stars for me is an excellent performance by John Hurt.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Weary and tired
By Lollardo (6 reviews) from London , 28 Jan 2012Ho-hum. Uninvolving and rather tedious, with a dodgy performance from Elijah Wood, while John Hurt phones one in. Oxford looks great though.- Was this review helpful to you?
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visualy stunning, shame about the direction and acting
By a customer , 21 Jan 2012trouble with this film is the director...the original book is great. but director bought the rights to book (its written in english) he is spanish and just didnt get the tone of the book or the english language. john hurt is the usual john hurt, elijah wood is just so crap and wooden, but then he always is, the sex scenes were just yuk, elijah is no sexy god, there is no way he would have pulled a girl like that, visually they didnt fit, little boy man with sexy strong independent women. so bad casting too, i just dont think elijah should have been in it.
visually its a stunning film.... just so sad the director ruined it all including what was a good book too.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Good enough film.
By bettie84 (9 reviews) , 19 Oct 2011I thought it was a good film. It showed some nice places of Oxford. Really got you going to see who did it. You need to look at it closely.- Was this review helpful to you?
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