SLEUTH (2007) ** Michael Caine, Jude Law. Remake of the 1972 mystery/drama that now has Caine in the Laurence Olivier role as the cuckolded genre author matching wits with his wife's lover, Law as Caine's original character a boastful 'hairdresser/actor' who may have met his match in cunning mind-games
or is it vice versea? Director Kenneth Branagh employs a new strategy by employing acclaimed playwright Harold Pinter to adapt the Anthony Shaffer play (reportedly have never read nor seen a performance of the production prior) with decidedly mixed results with a somewhat boring outcome in the long run, in spite of the game Brits having an actors' field day. Trivia note: this is Law's second consecutive Michael Caine film updating ("ALFIE" being the first).
Review of Sleuth
