The Numbers Station

An assassin for an intelligence agency (John Cusack) is reassigned to a “numbers station,” a top secret location where instructions are broadcast to agents in the field via code. There he’s tasked with protecting the female code announcer (Malin Akerman) and the station itself, a job that gets immediately difficult when the station is compromised by outside agents and the two operatives are ambushed. It becomes a mission of damage assessment and, more importantly, survival.

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There is some sporadic profanity in The Numbers Station, handled easily by ClearPlay. The 20 or 30 instances pale in comparison to the violence, which is often bloody and graphic. ClearPlay trims scenes of gunshots, bloody wounds, sewing stitches, and other wince-inducing images. The ClearPlayed version is a sleek if simple suspense shoot-‘em-up.

Are events at this Station played strictly by the numbers?...

The Numbers Station is strikingly similar to last year’s Denzel Washington vehicle Safe House. There isn’t a lot of complexity to the action outside of figuring out who is doing what, but the two main characters are its redeeming grace. Cusack and Akerman are strong in this light-weight actioner.

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Rated R for violence and language; 89 min; Directed by Kasper Barfoed