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Eddie Furlong performances are genius, so thats one reason to watch this cyber mystery!
Thomas Cross, the 'hero' of this movie, is a sallow-faced, baggy-eyed, sartorially-challenged Billy-No-Mates: the kind of harmless lowlife who you could easily imagine passing his evenings – before the rise of the internet – furtively peering between the curtains of old women's bedrooms. Cross is played by Edward Furlong, who admirably makes no effort to elevate the character he plays above the somewhat necessarily seedy demeanour demanded by his role. Cross is a computer programmer with a thing for installing cameras about his workplace so that he can watch female colleagues adjusting their tights, etc. When he's not ogling the women he works with, he sits alone in front of his computer screen ogling a woman he doesn't know, courtesy of a webcam site. One night, however, having sidestepped a firewall intended to block unwanted visitors, he witnesses the woman's grisly murder, and quickly finds himself the main suspect (he's in London and she's in Holland but what the hell…). Only comely policewoman Claire Bligh (Emilia Fox) believes he is innocent and, when she is taken off the case and it is closed unsolved, she enlists the help of Mark Hayward (Chiwetel Ejiofor), another (less nerdy) techie, and it is this trio that makes up the three blind mice of the title.
There's an intriguing idea behind the story, but it's one that needs a surer hand than that of unknown director Mathias Ledoux, and a much larger budget to match its undeniable ambition. It does manage to avoid the problem of many movies in which computers play a large part, in that we aren't faced with interminable scenes of people tapping away on their keyboards with expressions that match the content of the message that their disembodied voices speak, but unfortunately, this flick doesn't have a lot more going for it. You get the impression it's supposed to be making some great statement about the intrusion of survei