The agent in this interesting little thriller — well played by John Cusack — is up to the Company’s usual dirty tricks.
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Village VoiceChuck Wilson
Village VoiceChuck Wilson
There are some decent shootouts, but the movie's strongest assets are the soulful performances Danish director Kasper Barfoed, making his American debut, draws from Cusack and Akerman.
In The Numbers Station, a joyless sins-of-the-government thriller, Cusack sinks to new depths of meditative glumness to play a black-ops agent nursing a guilty conscience.
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Chicago Sun-TimesBill Stamets
Chicago Sun-TimesBill Stamets
Director Kasper Barfoed defaults to intense replays of surveillance audio recordings, frantic strokes on computer keyboards, and standard-issue chases.
Sentencing a sad-looking John Cusack and a hard-working Malin Akerman to roughly 90 minutes of solitary confinement in a poorly lit underground bunker, this glum, juiceless spy thriller is a by-the-numbers affair indeed, unlikely to find an audience on any frequency.
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Slant Magazine
Slant Magazine
Sits awkwardly between shoot 'em up and psychological thriller without offering the excitement of either.