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chupisfunky

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Ambos son muy buenos actores, pero la pelicula es tan tan aburrida!...

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Posted mar 7, 2008 2:34 pm pt

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I've seen the original of Sleuth and thought I might as well see the remake. Plus, Michael Caine is a great actor, and I still kind of like Jude Law. After seeing the movie, I was left with a lot of questions. For some reason, this movie was...
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I've seen the original of Sleuth and thought I might as well see the remake. Plus, Michael Caine is a great actor, and I still kind of like Jude Law. After seeing the movie, I was left with a lot of questions. For some reason, this movie was confusing. It is the type I have to see twice to really get the full meaning of it. Mostly, it wasn't as good as I thought it'd be and left a lot to be desired. Why there the need to remake classics is something I will never know.

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Posted feb 25, 2008 9:48 am pt

• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  75
  It's like "Deathtrap" crossed with "Cribs" as staged by Stanley Kubrick.

  by Owen Gleiberman | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Sun-Times
  
  75
  Caine, who has never been much for the stage, is a superb screen actor, so good his master classes on acting for the camera are on DVD. Here, dry and clipped, biting and savage, he goes for the kill.

  by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »
• [+] Charlotte Observer
  
  75
  A pretty good movie. It just isn't a very good "Sleuth," exactly.

  by Lawrence Toppman | Read Full Review »
• [+] Los Angeles Times
  
  70
  Language this lethal has all but disappeared from the movies, and it's an unmitigated pleasure to observe Caine and Law attack it with such ferocity. Sleuth is nasty fun.

  by Carina Chocano | Read Full Review »
• [+] Salon.com
  
  70
  Sleuth is well acted, and directed by Branagh with chilly, distant ingenuity. It has a certain edge and daring, or more to the point it pretends to.

  by Andrew O'Hehir | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Magazine
  
  70
  I think the movie works best if you know the original and have a taste for goofy revisionism.

  by David Edelstein | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Hollywood Reporter
  
  70
  Despite top-flight acting from Michael Caine and Jude Law, it loses its grip in the third act and let's the air out of what might have been a memorably gripping film.

  by Ray Bennett | Read Full Review »
• [+] ReelViews
  
  63
  The 1972 movie was better paced and presented a superior story but this one has its own pleasures. It's an interesting failure - a film that works more successfully as a study of technique and writing than as a motion picture.

  by James Berardinelli | Read Full Review »
• [+] USA Today
  
  63
  While the entire premise of Sleuth is a gimmick, having Michael Caine and Jude Law remake the 1972 adaptation of Anthony Shaffer's Tony Award-winning play heightens the gimmick quotient.

  by Claudia Puig | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Post
  
  63
  Just when things should be getting exciting and complex, they become repetitive and predictable. Subtext becomes hint becomes statement becomes declaration. For once, Pinter is a little too easy to understand.

  by Kyle Smith | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Tribune
  
  63
  Caine and Law may not be playing human beings, but Pinter's sense of humor is at least more interesting than Shaffer's. Caine in particular appears to enjoy honing his cold-eyed stare.

  by Michael Phillips | Read Full Review »
• [+] Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  
  58
  At 86 minutes, Sleuth '07 plays like a Cliffs Notes version of the original (which was skillfully adapted by Anthony Shaffer from his own hit play) with far too much of its pacing and delicious texture ruthlessly cut.

  by William Arnold | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  
  50
  A high-pedigree, low-interest affair that serves mostly as an exercise in postmortem speculation: Why is a project with so many prominent names attached to it so sterile and lifeless?

  by Liam Lacey | Read Full Review »
• [+] Miami Herald
  
  50
  This might have been OK for cable, but as a night out at the movies, it feels like a bit of a cheat.

  by Rene Rodriguez | Read Full Review »
• [+] Portland Oregonian
  
  50
  It's not a disaster: Branagh is an actor's director, and there are biting moments throughout and solid performances from Caine and Law.

  by M. E. Russell | Read Full Review »