Sleuth (2007)

An awful remake of the 1972 movie based on the Anthony Shaffer play, in which everything about the now classic original film has been changed for the worse, including the role played by Michael Caine (now the older of the two protagonists), the set (modern and ridiculous), and many elements of the original story, presumably to mark this as different to the original masterpiece and give the false impression there was a need to remake it.

★☆☆☆☆

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Sleuth (1972)

Michael Caine and Laurence Olivier star in this film adaptation of Anthony Shaffer's delightfully sinister mystery stage play set in a remote Wiltshire mansion, about two men - a famous mystery writer and a hairdresser - facing off in a battle of wits that grows ever more deadly.

★★★★★

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