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| Sleuth [2007] | ![Sleuth [2007]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51BsgS%2BKTCL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Kenneth Branagh
Actors: Michael Caine, Jude Law
Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment (UK)
Category: DVD
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Running Time: 85 minutes
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pThirty-five years after Michael Caine played the role of crass boy-toy Milo Tindle in Joseph L. Mankiewicz?s screen adaptation of Anthony Shaffer?s hit play Sleuth, the actor takes over his 1972 co-star Laurence Olivier?s role of rich cuckold Andrew Wyke in Kenneth Branagh?s updated remake of the same story. Where Olivier brought a seething, upper-class disgust to mystery-novelist Wyke?s attitude toward Tindle - who is having an affair with the former?s wife and has come to the writer?s mansion to request that Wyke divorce her - Caine basks in the comic absurdity of a superficial man like Tindle (Jude Law) led by the nose into one or another illusion of happiness. The new film?s script by Harold Pinter has the arid air of expectation familiar to his work, the weight of things not said whenever someone speaks. That?s a considerable weight indeed, in iSleuth/i?s story of a psychological contest between two very different men who despise one another beneath outward civility. The story finds Tindle arriving at Wyke?s home. Following various small humiliations, he is invited by the older man to steal his wife?s jewels in a scheme that benefits everyone. There?s more than meets the eye to Wyke?s proposal, however, leading to unexpected developments and surprises in the film?s second half. Branagh?s direction is suitably cool and sleek in the beginning, when the characters? emotions are still in check and the oddness of Wyke?s gadget-filled world is still entertaining to behold. (The film?s set design is one of its strongest elements.) But once voices rise and threats appear and the like, Branagh can?t seem to penetrate the surface of things. Unlike Mankiewicz?s take, the new version is caught up in the insularity of the characters? tit-for-tat gamesmanship, lacking the intriguing, class-warfare subtext of the earlier work. A gay angle thrown into the last half-hour sits uncomfortably and irrelevantly with the rest of the material. The best thing about this Sleuth are the performances of Law and Caine, who could have been even better with a great script. --Tom Keogh /p?
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 Limited. October 12, 2008
I disregarded critical appraisals of this movie in comparing it to the original, as I've never seen the original. Caine and Law give great performances, Caine at his aserbick best and Jude Law doing his damnedest to keep pace. I watched open mouthed at the appearance and subsequent unvailing of the loud Mancunian detective. No I didn't suss it, just wondered what the hell was going on. br /Unfortunately, despite the skill of the actors, I was unable to accept the basic premise. There was an 'Edger Allen Poe, short story'feel about it. Which was spun out into a feature length movie. To that end, I felt the whole excersise unworthy and unecessary.
Get the original August 19, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Bought the DVD with high hopes. Had seen the 1972 original several times, 2 key attributes 1) chemistry between the actors, 2) plot twists. Branagh: heavy-handed as ever, man has all the subtlety of a sledgehammer. Yet again proves he's a wannabe, ripping off Olivier for what the third/fourth time in his career. Anyways, the mood lighting/CCTV thing is way off base. Caine gives a great performance; Law not bad, tries to keep up. But sadly film mauled by director...oh and Pinter's tinkering not really adding v. much. If you can get through first half hour without throwing the remote at the TV you're probably OK. But strongly advise buying the original. This could have been so much better.
 Recommended May 14, 2008
I loved the movie. On the strength of it, I purchased the original 1972 version and comparing them I do not think one can stay true to the original if it is to be believable today. I mean dressing up as a clown - come on! br /br /Jude Law is a good actor; he's certainly not the worst. He had me fooled as Inspector Black. I had no idea it was he until the make up came off. And to change Jude Law, (a pulchritudinous guy), to let's say a plainer one, must had been very hard work - it's a credit to the make up lady. br /br /I'm glad I bought the DVD I have watched it more than twelve times and on my meager budget it would had cost a fortune at a cinema. br /br /I'm not sure I liked the ending; it could had higlighted Jude Law's talent a little more but in all a very good buy.br /br /br /
6-0, 6-0, 6-0 to Caine March 19, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The first time I watched this, I'm not embarrassed to say, I just didn't get it at all. Being a huge fan of the Anthony Shaffer/Joseph L. Mankiewicz version, all I noticed -- through my tears, and between sighs -- were Harold Pinter's drastic alterations and the frosty overall tone. "Surely there's enough misery in the world," I told my cat, "without necessitating the surgical removal of every ounce of pleasure from two hours of delightfully witty entertainment." The cat concurred: "CCTV and homoerotic overtones are no substitute for good, old-fashioned belly laughs. Meow!"br /br /It was only when I watched it a second time that I realised there are more good things than bad on offer, and I began to appreciate Pinter's novel tinkering with the character relationships. For instance, Andrew Wyke's (Michael Caine's) adulterous spouse is now an old man's trophy wife, rather than a toy boy's meal ticket. More interesting still, Pinter turns the love-triangle completely on its head, leaving the woman out in the cold, for a time at least.br /br /The use of CCTV to internalise the outside world is ingenious, but it creates a glaring problem that the script fails to address: prospective burglar Milo Tindle (Jude Law) doesn't think to ask Wyke about the ubiquitous cameras, and strangely but conveniently, Detective Inspector Black never asks to see any surveillance footage of Tindle's visit. The 1972 "Sleuth" was a fascinating summit meeting of two very different acting schools; the 2007 version is more David versus Goliath than a clash of titans, and Jude Law definitely forgot to bring his slingshot. Seemingly aware that he is being acted off the screen, Law overplays to the hilt. Caine, however, is brilliant.
acting lessons on screen February 26, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I recommend this movie for both actors.Extraordinary performances.br /The second one is a different movie from the first and as usual with remakes comparison comes too easily to the mind.I saw the original a few hours ago to remember it (alas in the french version) and must say I like both movies for different reasons. br /The directing may be more theatrical in the second (due to Branagh's taste for drama and to the awesome setting) but gives us the opportunity to see Law in his "theatrical" know how-especially for us foreigners deprived of his performances on stage.This guy is amazing (amazingly different in each part even in his physical appearance).I got back to drama school and amateur acting (ages after I started) after seeing him in the Holiday (turning a shallow part into a witty, touching and clever Graham).Alfie was brillantly redone and Sleuth is as well.I must say I always liked Michael Caine too.br /I think one should try to forget the originals when seeing remakes.After all many different sculptors or painters worked on the same themes without anyone objecting.Why is it not the same with movies?Why deny one's delight?br /By the way I ordered Hamlet tickets for 2009.
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