Sleuth (2007)

Very disappointing...

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

This movie is not even good enough for a ten line review. All it is is a waste of time of a guy showing another guy that has slept with his wife to breaking into his house to steal something out of his safe but really making it look like he has a reason to shoot him and kill him.This is the worst kind of movie anyone could want to watch. Really, are there that many stupid people out there that like this stuff? Michael Caine, should be ashamed of doing this remake. Even if this is his kind of take of the original.These movies are boring as hell. I should of killed myself after watching this. That is how bad this thing is and I have to waste more time to just say how bad it is on this site.

I remember liking the original 1970s "Sleuth" movie when it first came out, so I was interested to see what a modern update would be like, especially since Michael Caine would not only be returning, but playing the senior character this time around. Unfortunately, I thought this update was a big disappointment. For starters, the updated setting of the action is now a high tech environment, which feels absolutely cold and passionless, dragging the movie down to a depressing level. And while I can understand why they changed the last third of the story - you have to expect some major changes in a remake - I thought the new plotting in this last third was pretty silly. Michael Caine and Jude Law do give it their all, and their chemistry does on occasion distract you from the movie's shortcomings. But their characters are more mean-spirited than playfully devious, and that often leaves a bad taste. Track down a copy of the original movie instead.

I hate when a poorly made new and unnecessary film re-make pushes a superior original into the shadows. The Olivier original is in the Amazon Top 250 Films of All-Time....and yet try to find a copy of it on DVD AT A REASONABLE PRICE. Hopefully, someone will at Amazon will realize that the DVD isn't priced correctly and then the demand will result in a re-release of this DVD! How do we get Amazon to revise their prices? I see this happens sometimes with books on Amazon, but this is the first DVD I've wanted that's been affected by these computer glitches. Is there a CONTACT AMAZON or a complaint center we can refer this to? Please advise them if you know how...Until then, I'll just be patiently waiting for the price to come down on the DVDs of the original version.

This is a dark comedy-thriller, a remake of the 1972 film, based on a stage drama, here revisited by Harold Pinter. The plot moves around two characters: Andrew Wyke (interpreded by Micheal Caine), a millionaire egocentric novelist, who lives in an old mansion in the English countryside, turned into a high-tech "prison". One night he receives a visit from his wife's lover, Milo Tindle (interpreted by Jude Law), in search of his consent to the divorce. From the very first moment they meet, a mental, verbal and physical duel arises, in a kind of mouse and cat game, where roles interchange until the last act of the drama, which I will not reveal. Let's only say, we do not know if either of them really cares for this woman, only talked about but never visible, or if all this duel is only a matter of male superiority, the old and wealthy against the young and fascinating, an opposition of strong egos, in search for a final, definite self-determination. The movie has no flaws. The screenplay is acute and precise: let's not forget Harold Pinter modernized the original drama and filled it with sharp, minimal dialogues, where the most obvious word may carry subliminal meanings, capable of giving the right expression to the continuous intriguing trickery happening in this house. Direction is à la Kenneth Branagh, with his taste for the theatrical gesture which makes the viewer feel as a a theater spectator, and there are moments we have the impression of being in front of a stage. Acting is superb: I will not deny I'm a victim of Jude Law's amazing charm, here he takes the role played by Caine in the 1972 version, but objectively speaking, his interpretation here is brilliant to say the least, he is defiant, intense, shrewd, in the same way as Caine's interpretation sounds dry, biting, strong. It's a movie you may love or not, but you cannot deny its perfect execution, where every single detail is part of a thoroughly complete and well-built whole.