The Numbers Station

The Numbers Station is an British-American action thriller film, starring John Cusack and Malin Åkerman, about a disgraced CIA black ops agent assigned to protect the code operator at secret American numbers station somewhere in the British countryside.The film is directed by Danish director Kasper Barfoed (four episodes of Those Who Kill, The Candidate, The Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar), and the camera work is by Icelandic cinematographer Óttar Guðnason (Love, Wedding, Marriage, Inhale, A Little Trip to Heaven). It is produced by brothers Sean and Bryan Furst of American Furst Films (Daybreakers, The Girl in the Park, The Matador) and Nigel Thomas at British production and film finance company Matador Pictures (Princess Ka iulani, Dread, Book of Blood).The film is partly shot at RAF Bentwaters, a former RAF and USAF air force base north-east of Ipswich in Suffolk, which was closed down in 1993. It is now known as Bentwaters Parks and has been turned into a film studio.The Numbers Station is scheduled for release in Denmark on 18 April 2013, in the United States on 26 April 2013, and in Iceland on 3 May 2013. The movie has been pre-released in early April 2013 on Apple`s video streaming service Apple TV. Watch The Numbers Station for free has received mostly negative reviews from critics. It currently holds a 29% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. One of the movie`s most positive reviews came from Chuck Wilson of Village Voice who noted there are some decent shootouts, but the movie`s strongest assets are the soulful performances from John Cusack and Malin Akerman. Another positive review came from Lou Lumenick of The New York Post who rated the film three out of four stars and stated Kasper Barfoed, a Danish director in his English-language debut, makes great use of the main location, a bunker on a former airbase in the UK, as well as a novel premise. With Cusack s help, Barfoed holds your interest without resorting to car chases, a rarity in a contemporary thriller.