THE OXFORD MURDERS (2008) ¢ ¢ ¢
D: Alex de la Iglesia
Elijah Wood, John Hurt, Leonor Watling,
Jim Carter, Julie Cox, Burn Gorman,
Anna Massey, Alex Cox, Dominique Pinon
A university professor and a new grad student, both egghead academics, turn up together at the scene of a murder, and since they both knew the victim, decide to figure out whodunit. You'd need a post-doc in math to understand what these guys are talking about sometimes, but they're still not smart enough to keep themselves off the suspect list. It's a tricky intellectual puzzle and a movie you have to watch with your brain plugged in. Viewers who remember Hurt as the dictator in "V For Vendetta" should appreciate the Guy Fawkes outfit he wears to a concert on (of course) the fifth of November.
