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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: Blu-ray
Brand: Sony
EAN: 0043396244528
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 11, 2008
Running Time: 86 minutes
Sales Rank: 26717
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
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Sony Pictures Sleuth (Blu-ray)
Directed by critically-acclaimed director Kenneth Branagh, Jude Law and two-timeOscar-winner Michael Caine (1987, Best SupportingActor, 'Hannah And Her Sisters'; 2000, Best Supporting Actor, 'Cider House Rules') join forces in this sharp-witted, modern adaptation of the 1972 classic, 'Sleuth.' Locked in a high-tech English manor, bound in a deadly duel of wits, Andrew Wyke (Caine) and Milo Tindle (Law) come together as English gentlemen to discuss the matter of Wyke's wife:the woman both are sleeping with. But as wit becomes wicked and clever becomes cutthroat, Wyke and Tindle's game of one-upmanship spirals out of control, in an escalating chess match that can have only one outcome: murder.
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Thirty-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 Sleuth’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
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Rating:  - A NO GO
I wasn't aware of the original. Almost "clever", but fails miserably at the end, huge let down!
Rating:  - Absolutely ridiculous
Absolutely ridiculous. Harold Pinter's rambling, incoherent screenplay plays like a first draft of a trashy B movie script. This is, of course, a remake of the 1972 original starring Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine, with Caine playing the role Jude Law played in the remake. While the original had it's faults, such as being a bit too long and dragging in some spots, it stands as a truly underrated classic written by the superb Anthony Schaffer. The games playing between Olivier and Caine build ... Read More
Rating:  - Absolutely brilliant...except for the last 15 minutes
I knew even before I watched "Sleuth" that I would absolutely love it. This is a remake of the 1972 film with the same name that stars Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine. Caine also appears in the remake, but he plays the Olivier role, and Jude Law takes over as Caine's old character from 35 years ago. The story revolves entirely around a twisted confrontation between eccentric novelist Andrew Wyke (Caine) and Milo Tindle (Law), an out-of-work actor who's having an affair with Tindle's wife. Directed ... Read More
Rating: - What a shame
I usually like Branagh's work, I more than like Michael Caine (saw him first in 1965 with 'Ipcress File' and didn't miss much since). but I couldn't stand 10 minutes of this thing, since I got the feeling the director was more interested in contemplating his navel while getting the camera in the sky or crawling on the floor to no avail : close-ups on feet as ssen by a dog might have pleased fans of Godard (I was never one) 40 years ago, but now it's pitiful. Very few remakes were worthy being made, this ... Read More
Rating: - brilliant
Brilliant acting from Michael Caine who is truly remarkable here. One of his best performances.
Jude Law is... well, Jude Law. Overacting at times, he nevertheless was well cast.
Suprisingly decent directing by Branagh who gets on my nerves - usually.
A truly remarkable production with a fantastic ending.
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