Gordon-11 This film tells the story of a young man who moves to a town and takes up lodging with a unhappily married couple. The town gradually is plagued by mysterious murders, and residents can do nothing to stop the streak of untimely deaths.To be honest, I could not quite get into the story of "The Minus Man". Owen Wilson is too handsome and innocent looking for me to believe that he is a serial killer! His motives of killing are unclear to me either. There is no thrill, suspense or mystery in the film. The characters sail through the story, and there is nothing for me to hold my breath for. I find this film a little disappointing, as it could have been a thrilling mystery.

Alexia Verona (idontknowiknowthatidontknow) short/concise review: a drifter goes from town to town and rents a room from a couple, the stranger has a dark secret, and it's more than you'd guess.ambiguous review:a man drifts into a town and blends in like the mist seeps into the swamp. Always centered upon his own line of thought, he starts to unravel his nice but peculiar personality upon a dreamy town.philosophical review:What is going on in a person's life that makes one shelter one's self from one's conscience and let himself just be. Were his actions a product of his environment or did he choose to do what he did? Did he choose not to accept free will and let his destiny take its course? Like nature, he's never in a hurry, never a hint of discomfort. Like a destiny fulfilling itself, perhaps he knows what will happen, will happen.If you like thrillers, horror, psychological drama, and intriguing stories, you might find this movie very much to your liking.

antoniotierno It's a movie that prompts the viewer to look inward rather than show gore, tension or the usual thriller ingredients (this is the reason as to why I stressed the lack of thrill). The film's approach is very laid back, focusing on the ordinariness of life that hides something terrible; the pace is everything but fast, nevertheless the story is filled with some fascinating elements that compensate for the lagging rhythm. Despite suffering from this pacing "The Minus Man" is a smart movie because it makes reflect and presses to think twice about strangers we come across; there's a lot of character depth and the audience, in spite of never being really scared, becomes more interested when learning something about the killer.

manuel-pestalozzi Watching this movie, you will most probably start thinking about other titles. I'm my case they are Psycho, Arsenic and Old Lace, A Shadow of Doubt, A Beautiful Mind and The Night of the Hunter. I also had to think of Todd Solondz' Palindromes. The Minus Man is successful where Palindromes dismally fails; in creating a setting which is located between everyday reality and the dreamscape of personal imagination.The main character comes out of nowhere and vanishes there again. In between horror invades the proverbial Smallville USA. Evil probably never had a gentler appearance. It is useless to explain what happens and why, as this is not a movie which wants to explain anything.The story is seen from the perspective of a mass murderer. Something is terribly wrong with this meek, likable young man. He sometimes faints, has regular and recurring visions, suffers from a split personality - and likes to kill people. You are never sure if what he perceives is reality or figments of his imagination. Most people he meets act at times very strange and unnatural, even the way he sees objects is often very unsettling (the big, diamond shaped glass pane in the entrance door of his „adoptive parents" is one of the scariest things for me in this movie).What to me seemed unique in Minus Man is the way the disturbed man deals with the fact that something is wrong: He just seems to integrate everything into his everyday routine. Even the recurring dreams of Kafkaesque interrogations by a racially mixed team of some kind of investigators are faced with a cool, detached demeanour. In a strange, scary way the man seems to have found peace with himself and his condition. Others will have to pay with their lives.The Minus Man boasts an ensemble cast that is simply awesome. For some reason the female parts made a particularly deep impression on me, especially Mercedes Ruehl as the „adoptive mother" and Alex Warren as the supernatural state trooper. Janeane Garofalo is really cute and easily the most uplifting character of the movie. Watch her bungalow – it seems to come right out of a children's book of fairy stories.