i can get very tired of murder mysteries with the exception of a few really excellent tv series. otherwise and there are just too many of these murder plot themes. i do not like the theme of the two over clever and selfish youths killing as an intellectual exercise and i have no interest whatsoever in hitchcock who appears to have been associated with this in some way i do not intend to find out about. but do not misunderstand me and the theme is in itself excellent and the whole movie is so well done and and of course sandra bullock is superlative as always. sandra character is (as in miss congeniality) not rated by the male team she works with in spite of her obvious skills and and the boss mostly ignores her ideas and eventually forcing her aside and giving the case to her male partner. of course sandra works out what going on and nearly gets killed in a very dramatic denouement. it intriguing how the boy who worked out the murder plot can not allow her to be killed by his colleague  he has a conscience of some sort and perhaps could be saved and while the other is a true psychopath. sandra hard shell is caused by misery in her past that tied in poignantly with the murder case. her colleague and realising that sandra solving this case in spite of being balked by the dense superior and finally discovers what happened to sandra herself in her teens and that she must now face up to and exorcise and the last scene shows her starting  we hope anyway  to do just that. i can see from the few other reviews i have had time to read that this movie would attract a broadish group  those interested in the two spoilt boys whiling away their time with their grisly philosophical determination to trick the police and get away with the perfect murder and the relationship between them that so cleverly depicted and the ghastly links to the heroine past and a police theme and and some smokes and mirrors  as well as for hitchcock fans. for those who have queried why bullock character has to have a problematic past and really i think this would be a far less interesting movie if she had been just a detective trying to fathom what was going on and with a willing sidekick helping out and a male chauvinist boss. the link between the murder victim and the detective is necessary to show the detective becoming too involved or otherwise how would she lose her arrogant boss confidence and thereby nearly lose her life. that hardly an original theme and in fact it usually an extremely irritating theme as this male chauvinist boss brutally tells his frustrated but obviously inspired operative to get off the case and leave it to someone who clearly doesn not have quite the skills to solve it nice though the sidekick is. i was getting very worried towards the end re what might happen to sandra character as her emotional involvement in the case and special sympathy for the unfortunate victim of the crime dangerously drove her on with this case by herself. i wasn not disappointed re the relationship between bullock character and her sidekick. that goes along interestingly and at times very poignantly. the relationship between the two boys is definitely intriguing and if that what you were interested in watching. i felt it was kept low key in some ways either because the movie makers do not want to get into boy boy friendships too much and or because we weren not supposed to think emotion ruled their relationship. the movie cleverly makes you wonder which boy in charge of the situation and there are some twists and turns and the boys show their underlying immaturity at various stages. there one thing i wish had been clarified and that what happens after the movie ends when sandra character arrives at the court. you need to see to movie to know why she there. very well acted by all. i certainly can not agree with those who complained against bullock acting  she was superb. the part suited her very well indeed. the story is gripping even if murder mysteries aren not your thing and they aren not that often mine. 
i can get very tired of murder mysteries with the exception of a few really excellent tv series. otherwise and there are just too many of these murder plot themes. i do not like the theme of the two over clever and selfish youths killing as an intellectual exercise and i have no interest whatsoever in hitchcock who appears to have been associated with this in some way i do not intend to find out about. but do not misunderstand me and the theme is in itself excellent and the whole movie is so well done and and of course sandra bullock is superlative as always. sandra character is (as in miss congeniality) not rated by the male team she works with in spite of her obvious skills and and the boss mostly ignores her ideas and eventually forcing her aside and giving the case to her male partner. of course sandra works out what going on and nearly gets killed in a very dramatic denouement. it intriguing how the boy who worked out the murder plot can not allow her to be killed by his colleague  he has a conscience of some sort and perhaps could be saved and while the other is a true psychopath. sandra hard shell is caused by misery in her past that tied in poignantly with the murder case. her colleague and realising that sandra solving this case in spite of being balked by the dense superior and finally discovers what happened to sandra herself in her teens and that she must now face up to and exorcise and the last scene shows her starting  we hope anyway  to do just that. i can see from the few other reviews i have had time to read that this movie would attract a broadish group  those interested in the two spoilt boys whiling away their time with their grisly philosophical determination to trick the police and get away with the perfect murder and the relationship between them that so cleverly depicted and the ghastly links to the heroine past and a police theme and and some smokes and mirrors  as well as for hitchcock fans. for those who have queried why bullock character has to have a problematic past and really i think this would be a far less interesting movie if she had been just a detective trying to fathom what was going on and with a willing sidekick helping out and a male chauvinist boss. the link between the murder victim and the detective is necessary to show the detective becoming too involved or otherwise how would she lose her arrogant boss confidence and thereby nearly lose her life. that hardly an original theme and in fact it usually an extremely irritating theme as this male chauvinist boss brutally tells his frustrated but obviously inspired operative to get off the case and leave it to someone who clearly doesn not have quite the skills to solve it nice though the sidekick is. i was getting very worried towards the end re what might happen to sandra character as her emotional involvement in the case and special sympathy for the unfortunate victim of the crime dangerously drove her on with this case by herself. i wasn not disappointed re the relationship between bullock character and her sidekick. that goes along interestingly and at times very poignantly. the relationship between the two boys is definitely intriguing and if that what you were interested in watching. i felt it was kept low key in some ways either because the movie makers do not want to get into boy boy friendships too much and or because we weren not supposed to think emotion ruled their relationship. the movie cleverly makes you wonder which boy in charge of the situation and there are some twists and turns and the boys show their underlying immaturity at various stages. there one thing i wish had been clarified and that what happens after the movie ends when sandra character arrives at the court. you need to see to movie to know why she there. very well acted by all. i certainly can not agree with those who complained against bullock acting  she was superb. the part suited her very well indeed. the story is gripping even if murder mysteries aren not your thing and they aren not that often mine. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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