The Numbers Station

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The Numbers Station

R

2013

1h 30m

Action

Mystery & Thriller

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Emerson, a disgraced CIA agent, guards Katherine, a code operator, in a top secret CIA installation in Britain. When heavily armed assailants lay siege to the compound, Emerson and Katherine have to stop the deadly plot before it's too late.

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Not even Cusack's bankable hitman angst can save this dimly lit, shaky-cam, wannabe thriller from missing its target.

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Bill Stamets

Chicago Sun-Times

May 11, 2013

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.

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Robert Abele

Los Angeles Times

Apr 26, 2013

2/5

A predictable hodgepodge of uninteresting psychological cat-and-mouse, dimly lighted action filmed by director Kasper Barfoed in standard-operating shaky-cam ...

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Lou Lumenick

New York Post

Apr 26, 2013

3/4

With Cusack's help, Barfoed holds your interest without resorting to car chases, a rarity in a contemporary thriller.

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Frank Ochieng

SF Crowsnest

Nov 17, 2018

2/4

The figures simply do not add up in director Kasper Barfoed's sleepy-eyed spy thriller The Numbers Station. Inexplicably stillborn and predictable, The Numbers Station struggles mightily to incorporate a sense of slow burn thrills

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Abby Olcese

Scene-Stealers.com

Jun 23, 2017

Ultimately this movie is better forgotten.

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Jeffrey M. Anderson

Common Sense Media

Sep 18, 2014

3/5

Danish director Kasper Barfoed, who makes his English-language debut here, makes fine use of the movie's tight constraints, painting it in concrete hallways, electrical panels, and glowing computer screens.

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Finn L

May 15, 2018

An action thriller so badly done that you can't tell whether they filmed a completely different story, but then attempted to edit the footage to tell this one, or if they just didn't care that everything is disjointed and contradictory. A shame, because clearly there was talent involved, just sad it was overwhelmed. Could have been good.

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Albus W

Feb 1, 2018

This is a low budget, limited script, straight to VHS if it was the '90s type of movie, but I can't help watching it with a sense that this is the flip side to Grosse Pointe Blank... Cusack is Emerson, who seems to be the inevitable persona that Martin Blank would have found himself if he hadn't decided to 'get out of the biz' back in '97... bleak, run down, unemotional and failing. Through that lens, I absolutely love this movie.

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Leia S

Apr 27, 2017

Middle of the road- competently made with good performances from the two leads. Interesting enough concept not fully realized. Limited sets and actors, not a bad film but not a great one either. Rental.

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Poe S

Feb 7, 2017

A serviceable action thriller.

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Hermione W

Sep 2, 2013

The Number Station is another one of those quiet movies with an uninteresting title that walled in obscurity, undeservedly. I like the attitude of the film, and the way the movie develops, like other similar movies that I have seen. Packed with some good action and suspense, overall it was worth seeing nut its better to rent then to own. So for this being a solid film, and solid acting, I give " The Number Station " a D.

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Synopsis

Emerson, a disgraced CIA agent, guards Katherine, a code operator, in a top secret CIA installation in Britain. When heavily armed assailants lay siege to the compound, Emerson and Katherine have to stop the deadly plot before it's too late.

Director: Kasper Barfoed
Producer: Sean Furst, Bryan Furst, Nigel Thomas
Screenwriter: F. Scott Frazier
Distributor: Image Entertainment
Production Co: Piccadilly Pictures
Rating: R (Violence|Language)
Genre: Action, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 26, 2013, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 18, 2016
Runtime: 1h 30m

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