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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 0043396225220
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: March 11, 2008
Running Time: 86 minutes
Sales Rank: 19294
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
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Product Description:
Directed by critically-acclaimed director Kenneth Branagh Jude Law and two-time Oscar-winner Michael Caine (1987 Best Supporting Actor 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.System Requirements:Running Time: 89 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: MYSTERY/SUSPENSE/AMATEUR SLEUTHS Rating: R UPC: 043396225220 Manufacturer No: 22522
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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:  - Good, but Different
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Nobody Drowns in Mineral Lake
This remake of the 1972 filming of Anthony Shaffer's 2-person stage play is as good as the original, just different. Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine were the stars of the original picture. In this version, Caine assumes the Olivier role and Jude Law takes on the part Caine played in 1972.
Screenwriter Harold Pinter follows the general plot outline of Shaffer's play, but the smart, witty dialogue is all his and he ... Read More
Rating:  - Blown away....
O.k so these are two brilliant and skillful leads.....BUT what a performance. It had me on the edge of my seat both with suspense and uncontrollabe laughter. It's amazing the way the seemed to switch roles as the plot thickened... sort of like an elevated form of Daffy vs Bugs bunny. Truly a brilliant performance by both men.
Rating: - Different View
I look at this movie in a different way. Jude Law was a producer on the film. He has been compared with Micheal Caine. Hey "Alfie"? Possibly it was a slip or intended that the hairdresser was an actor was a hairdresser. How can you remake something? Maybe it is just different? There is context and distraction from the vantage of new technology that interlaces the film. It was a play and that was dialog. Now its video tech?
Micheal Caine at his worst is always good. Jude law could ... Read More
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 momentum ... Read More
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