Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- John CusackEmerson
- Malin ÅkermanKatherine
- Hannah MurrayRachel Davis
- Liam CunninghamGrey
- Lucy GriffithsMeredith
- Bryan DickDavid
- Richard BrakeMax
- Finbar LynchMichaels
- Joey AnsahDerne
- Victor GardenerFischer
Recommendations
- 75
New York Post
The agent in this interesting little thriller — well played by John Cusack — is up to the Company’s usual dirty tricks. - 70
Village Voice
There are some decent shootouts, but the movie's strongest assets are the soulful performances Danish director Kasper Barfoed, making his American debut, draws from Cusack and Akerman. - 50
The A.V. Club
In The Numbers Station, a joyless sins-of-the-government thriller, Cusack sinks to new depths of meditative glumness to play a black-ops agent nursing a guilty conscience. - 50
Chicago Sun-Times
Director Kasper Barfoed defaults to intense replays of surveillance audio recordings, frantic strokes on computer keyboards, and standard-issue chases. - 40
Variety
Sentencing a sad-looking John Cusack and a hard-working Malin Akerman to roughly 90 minutes of solitary confinement in a poorly lit underground bunker, this glum, juiceless spy thriller is a by-the-numbers affair indeed, unlikely to find an audience on any frequency. - 25
Slant Magazine
Sits awkwardly between shoot 'em up and psychological thriller without offering the excitement of either. - 20
The New York Times
This dreary spy drama is as flat and airless as the concrete bunker in which it unfolds. - 20
Los Angeles Times
A predictable hodgepodge of uninteresting psychological cat-and-mouse, dimly lighted action.
