I thought my movie report on "SUSPECT X" below had no spoilers yet possibly touched upon some plot elements so be careful, OK? "SUSPECT X" was a sequel of the popular mystery drama on TV "GALILEO". I would most certainly be satisfied if I could enjoy this one free of charge on TV or a DVD rental at most. I wished the director or the screen writer had spent more time on elaborating the plot line and characters.
As a mystery, the story was neither thrilling nor exciting, in my point of view. It was kind of too easy for me to guess what would happen next and what was awaiting in the end. The highlight of this TV drama was to shake the alibi of suspects through logical thinking and scientific approach; unfortunately the highlight seemed to be neglected this time.
As a human drama plus love story, this one could have achieved a movie quality impression if the following conditions were taken into account. First, why was the suspect X or the math genius in terrible despair? Second, how could the heroine and her daughter cheer up this unsociable mathematician and help him to rebound from that despair? And third, how could the accidental death of the pimp or the ex-husband of the heroine be significant enough to involve all innocent people into tragedy and had them resign to their fate? It was a premise to thoroughly describe above why and how to develop characters and convince me of X's self-sacrifice or his unconditional love, I thought.
By the way, If I were the X, I would recommend she give herself up to the police and confess that she had no choice but protect her and her daughter in self-defence. And If I were the detective, I would refer to autopsy reports and look up call logs and put X behind bars in three days. That is it.
As a mystery, the story was neither thrilling nor exciting, in my point of view. It was kind of too easy for me to guess what would happen next and what was awaiting in the end. The highlight of this TV drama was to shake the alibi of suspects through logical thinking and scientific approach; unfortunately the highlight seemed to be neglected this time.
As a human drama plus love story, this one could have achieved a movie quality impression if the following conditions were taken into account. First, why was the suspect X or the math genius in terrible despair? Second, how could the heroine and her daughter cheer up this unsociable mathematician and help him to rebound from that despair? And third, how could the accidental death of the pimp or the ex-husband of the heroine be significant enough to involve all innocent people into tragedy and had them resign to their fate? It was a premise to thoroughly describe above why and how to develop characters and convince me of X's self-sacrifice or his unconditional love, I thought.
By the way, If I were the X, I would recommend she give herself up to the police and confess that she had no choice but protect her and her daughter in self-defence. And If I were the detective, I would refer to autopsy reports and look up call logs and put X behind bars in three days. That is it.