Rotten
John Cusack replays his role as a lethal operative with occupational angst for a routine thriller with a female cryptographer at secret CIA site. Dire workplace issues ensue.
Bill Stamets, Chicago Sun-Times
The Numbers Station
The code has never been compromised. Until now.
2013 · 1h 30m · R
Action, Thriller
Directed by
Kasper Barfoed
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The Numbers Station
Overview
When the moral values of a longtime wetwork black ops agent is tested during his last operation, he receives an unfavorable psych evaluation. Now he is given a break and a seemingly uncomplicated assignment of simply protecting the security of a young female code announcer, code resources and remote station they are assigned to. After an ambush and one phone call later, it becomes a complicated fight for their survival.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
31%
Tomatometer
Rotten
A predictable hodgepodge of uninteresting psychological cat-and-mouse, dimly lighted action filmed by director Kasper Barfoed in standard-operating shaky-cam ...
Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times
Fresh
With Cusack's help, Barfoed holds your interest without resorting to car chases, a rarity in a contemporary thriller.
Lou Lumenick, New York Post
Rotten
This dreary spy drama is as flat and airless as the concrete bunker in which it unfolds.
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
Rotten
Akerman does work hard to keep up the energy level. Cusack, though, seems bored by the superficial proceedings, which don't even offer the distraction of a real romantic connection or a suspenseful confrontation.
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News
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