68 out of 72 people found the following review helpful:

Intelligent whodunnit

A Customer from London, 4th May, 2008

An American PhD student (Elijah Wood) arrives in Oxford hoping to have his thesis supervised by legendary mathematician Arthur Seldom (John Hurt). Instead, the two of them become tangled up in a series of murders with mathematical clues leading to a place neither of them suspects... This is an intelligent whodunnit, and keeps to the spirit of the book despite a few changes. Both the leads do a great job and the pace and the tension are kept up throughout. A thoroughly entertaining film (spot the slightly gruesome cameo appearance from cult film director Alex Cox!), good story, excellent direction and nice performances.

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41 out of 42 people found the following review helpful:

Appalling

A Customer from Worcestershire, 6th July, 2008

I've no doubt the book is probably quite good, but this is appalling. You're better off watching an episode of Morse or Midsomer Murders - better acting and directing in both and Midosomer Murders is probably more realistic!! Set in 1993 but not believable. Must be for the American markets, avoid at all costs.

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27 out of 28 people found the following review helpful:

I never write reviews, but this film annoyed me sooooooo much!

WeeVee from , 18th July, 2008

Honestly! About as clever and profound as a wet flannel. Just horriby wordy and up itself. Badly directed, completely unbelievable, and a total waste of some good actors' time. Sub-, sub-, sub- Dan Brown. At least you can laugh at all his Templar nonsense. (Although I thought there were a few moments when this was TRYING to be funny...) Another reviewer's comment about being better off watching a Morse is spot on.

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20 out of 21 people found the following review helpful:

Truly terrible

A Customer from Barnet, 26th July, 2008

This really is bad. A shame to see John Hurt prostituting himself on something quite so awful (I know he's done some dodgy stuff lately, but, John, is the taxman really chasing you so hard you had to go this downmarket?) Utterly preposterous plot, particularly the possibllity that two rather tasty looking birds would get the hots for that pasty faced shortarse yank Frodo considering what else must be on offer around Oxford. 'Bloody hell!' he exclaims at one point, which was probably the (unintentionally) funniest bit of the whole sorry saga. The psychotic Russian also lends some comic relief, again unintended. The contrived ending with the bus is risible, the sterotypical halfwit plods 'on the case' are just that, and Frodo's final encounter with his idol is plain daft. Avoid. And please, John - I hope Hellboy 2's a lot better than this dross.

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the oxford murders

TIDY from , 9th March, 2010

This film was a load of old rubbish i nearly turned it off. But i waited for it to get better and it didnt. Shame two good actors wasted in this film. bad film whoever made this and i was not interested who did but maybe i should have been then i would make sure i didnt watch their films anymore.

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OXFORD MURDERS

A Customer from Ilminster Somerset, 1st March, 2010

Don't waste your credits on this load of drivel. The worst film I have seen in a long time. All the other review sum it up.

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worst film ever made

Sally Jastrzebski-Lloyd from Manchester, 20th February, 2010

oh dear! Terrible. John Hurt hammy. Elijah Wood(en) Only made it through half and hour of this, sorry.

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Oxford Murders

Ollfie from , 16th February, 2010

Starts off ok but I think Elijah Wood is miscast, Green Street To Frodo to Oxford?.... Nah! doesn't work for me. The sub plots are a little too passe and i think the film lets itself down by trying to be just a little too clever thinking because its set in Oxford every body from the burger flipper in MacDonalds to a bus driver must all be academically gifted and the Big issue seller has a D. Phil just for the hell of it.

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