There is much to
laugh at in “The Oxford Murders,” a serial murder thriller mixing in
philosophy, math, and Frodo (Elijah Wood) as a hunk of smooth manliness wooing
the English ladies with spaghetti and meatball themed sex. Not intended as a
comedy, this flick is hilarious. Wood stars an American student who puts all
his life into entering Oxford U to study under John Hunt’s wild-haired fruit
loop professor’s logic class only to learn after
his arrival on campus that the professor has retired from teaching. The kid is
stunned. Really? Adults wrote and directed. The adults are Jorge
Guerricaechevarria and Álex de la Iglesia (real
names?) and they dish up all the genre thriller clichés sprinkled with
inane philosophical babble and algorithm riddles that only nerds must think
clever, with Wood – I must mention this again – as the stud wooing woman thrillingly
open to pasta experimentation. Might all this be satire? Dig Jim Carter’s
inspector who slowly catches on that serial murderers kill multiple
victims. Dud. D+
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