Sleuth

Showcase of great acting. It is as theatrical as I would expect from Branagh. Even though it is not an original story, slick set design and cinematography brings something new to the table. For the first two thirds movie is lots of fun, but that only leads to extremely disappointing wrap up. I made a mistake watching this before original movie.

As far as remakes go this wasn't too bad, but Law looks so outmatched it doesn't really work. Combined with the short running time and weak third act it's all pretty disappointing. Watch the original, the watch this on a rainy day.

Do they expect us to believe Caine doesn't recognize him in "disguise"....?

A two man show with lots of twists and turns. Movie starts pretty well with Law and Caine taking shots at each other but as the movie goes on the plot becomes more and more stupid. The ending is really a let down.

Given the name values, it's truly one of the worst I ever saw. It's a pity, too, cause I'm a Branagh fan. Extreme theatrics don't gel with the cinematography at all. The plot is terrible. I couldn't believe that both leads could be forced to play this awfully. The music is cliché. The lighting is off. It's like a student film, really. I went in blind and was mighty disappointed.

Kenneth Branagh brings what I imagine is a well regarded play to the silver screen and keeps true to it's stage origins. I really loved how minimal this movie was. The back and forth between Caine and Law is wonderful. There are so many moments in their speech and in their delivery that are laced with double meanings and slick cues to what has already happened. I was surprised that Branagh wasn't in the film because he tends to show up in his own stuff. It's not for everyone but I liked it.

7/7

Michael Caine is excellent. Jude law is good when not playing the police inspector. I like the brisk pace compared to the 1972 version. I liked Cain's take on the character contrasted to Olivier's over the top portrayal.

a case study for interior/product designers.

Nice movie, enjoyable, but really, who talks like that??

57.500

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Alfie vs. Alfie. Who's the real joker? Only better thing than the original is Patrick Doyle's great tunes with piano and violin.

Really? Put a fake beard on, and nobody will recognize you?!

Starts quite promisingly but it's all downhill from there. Doesn't deserve to bear the name of a great movie.

Wonderful cat and mouse plot. Very intricate back and forth betweeen the main characters. Caine and Law play their characters to the hilt. Although the camera work may seem simplistic at first, once you look closer you see how carefully plotted it all was. Definately worth watching!

Brilliant

"It's tempting to call the new Sleuth a soulless remake, but that would imply that the original had a soul." - Fernando F. Croce

58.000

An anemic cuntknuckle of a remake.

It seems like this movie could have been much better, but I don't know exactly how.

Listen, I haven't seen the original film. Therefore, as a viewer with nothing to compare this to, I found it to be an enjoyable little film. Caine is the main reason I chose it - as I'm loving the man more and more these days - and he doesn't disappoint here. I will agree with detractors, though: the homoerotic subtext at the end feels shoehorned in and out of place. I'll see the original, and likely prefer it, but I hold no ill will towards this flick.

this atrocity is mind blowing. how can you put branagh, pinter, law and caine together and create something so slow-paced, boring, repetitive and mind-numbing as sleuth 2007? despite being someone who has not watched the original, i had my hopes up high. what i found was a disgrace. certainly something honorable was attempted here, but what happened instead was a claustrophobic mess of repeated patterns. an abundance of twists, no context and no pretext make a crappy movie. here's the proof.

Opening 15 minutes: quite promising, an interesting dialogue-based film with a minimalist, theatrical vibe. Remainder of the film: ridiculous trash. As usual with these "cleverer-than-you" films, the double crossing and bluffing all becomes terribly tedious, long before the credits roll.

Kenneth Branagh's direction imitates De Palma's multi-angled voyeurism, but the trite visual tricks interrupt the clipped language and tense interaction that are British theater's domain.

Law is lovely not for performance.

Bloated, pretentious remake of a great film. It's one thing to make a bad film. It's another to already have the source material and still screw it to pieces. Not sure what Pinter's homophobic, nonsensical ending has to do with the first 7/8's of the film. While the original was a clever who-done-it, this one is a brooding, arrogant why-bother. Poor Michael Caine.

Way more modern and with radically different sets and many close-ups, this "Sleuth" is an altogether different proposition that for the most part benefits from those variations. Caine delivers greatly and Law is also notable, especially in the middle part where he seems to be enjoying himself enormously. The elephant in the room is Pinter's adaptation: it might cut down the duration but at times strays unreasonably far from the original, thus affecting the film's realism, meaning and enjoyment.

Definitely a step down from the original "Sleuth", but this nevertheless remains a stylish, smart and compelling thriller containing some fresh twists. Caine is great (again) and Law is solid as well.

Only found the original in bad quality so I figured fuck it let's watch the remake then as the film's premise sounded like something I might like. Disappointing.

..Patrick Doyle's music was the only justifiable reason for this movie

Even though the original is perfect and one of my favorite films, I think the material actually lends itself to a next generation remake. The differences are quite interesting, and the performances are unsurprisingly great.

Nothing more than one of those two men in a cabin films.

I understand why people wouldn't like this, but I just loved the mmmmmActing!

watchable

awfull written, quite poor directed. man i like pinter - guess it is nice to watch in a theatre.

Poor remake of an excellent film.

grande prova d'attori, stupefacente law, ma grande anche la dentiera di caine. resta il grande dubbio sul finale. perché quel gesto???

This exercise in vanity is ultimately sunk by a ridiculous set design with an apparently illogical, and impossible floor-plan, that is a complete distraction at all times...