The Numbers Station

The Numbers Station was a little thriller last year which I'd wanted to see because it stars John Kusack and Malin Ackerman. It was massively disappointing. A completely predictable thriller with predictable tension, a predictable huge plot handwave, and a pre-ordained outcome. Kusack plays a nearly washed-up CIA agent who's put out to pasture babysitting a cryptographer (Ackerman) out in the boondocks at a "numbers station" which broadcasts encrypted instructions to spies in the field as seemingly random digits over-the-air. I was not impressed. They should both know better.