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Sleuth

Country: UK, Language: English, 86 mins

Gay | Thriller | 2007

Director: Kenneth Branagh
Writer: Harold Pinter; Anthony Shaffer
Producer: Kenneth Branagh; Simon Halfon

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This screams of arrogance.

Jude Law takes on the young Michael Caine mantle (again) – in this souped-up re-make.

And...it just doesn’t work in the slightest, Law really doesn’t do a very good job at all.

The dialogue is laboured and definitely out-of-date – being Pinter’s last script, it’s a sad farewell.

Branagh’s direction is non-existent, the homo-undertones are too pronounced and, frankly, beyond belief.

This is a re-make that should never have been re-made – or made.

The main impact is lost because (1) the camera is just too close and, (2) Law couldn’t pull it off.

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The(ir) Blurb...

Two extremely clever British men are in a game of trickery and deceit. Andrew Wyke, an aging famous author who lives alone in a high-tech mansion, after his wife Maggie has left him for a younger man; and Milo Tindle, an aspiring actor, equipped with charm and wit, who demonstrates both qualities once again. When Wyke invites Tindle to his mansion, Tindle seeks to convince the former into letting his wife go by signing the divorce paper. However, Wyke seems far more interested in playing mind games with his wife's new lover, and lures him into a series of actions he thoroughly planned in seeking revenge on his unfaithful spouse.