Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

GazerRise Fantastic!

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Raymond Sierra The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

tangreat-bk An Entertaining murder mystery that perhaps stretches it's gimmick a tad bit too long.Let's get this out of the way. The performance are fantastic. It's the verbal sparring between them that provides the movie's bread and butter. It's a treat to watch such immensely talented actors go at one another. It's worth watching the movie for them alone. While the movie is largely shot in one house you would be hard pressed to want a change of scenery. It's basically a two man show aside from the entry of one other actor. And it would be hard to lose one's attention from the witty banter between the leads.Sleuth starts with a simple premise that slowly grows more complex. There are joys to be found in the twists and turns of the plot. And even if the last act feels like a little long it's still intellectual enough to keep us invested. Guys like me who have grown up with detective stories will find a lot to enjoy in this. Why don't they more movies like this?Highly recommended. Had a great time.

Ross622 "Sleuth" was the final film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and so far it is the only one that I've ever seen, and it's a complete and total masterpiece. the movie is based on the popular Broadway play of the same name by Anthony Shaffer who also wrote the screenplay of the film as well. The main character of the film is a middle aged British crime novelist named Andrew Wyke (Laurence Olivier) who invites a young hairdresser to his huge mansion named Milo Tindle (Michael Caine) who happens to be in love with Wyke's wife and both men try to get revenge on each other by playing dangerous games on each other throughout the rest of the movie. The film was the second of four movies that Olivier and Caine made together and in this movie they give very impressive performances which are so good it surprises me that those two actually weren't the original actors for the original Broadway production, and as a result they both got well deserved best actor Oscar nominations for their profound work. Shaffer's script along with John Addison's Oscar nominated score and especially Mankiewicz's Oscar nominated direction kept me on the edge of my seat throughout most of the entire film. I wrote in my review of "Death on the Nile" that I felt like I was watching a clue game in the form of a movie, but with this movie I felt the same way but the only difference being that this movie only has a 2 person cast. It is very unfortunate to me that these days Hollywood is remaking a lot of the great masterpieces of the last century but this movie was remade in 2007, and this is a movie that should never have been remade. In an interview a few months before his death Paul Newman was looking back on his career as an actor and in that very same interview he said "No one should ever remake "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid." This movie is a pure example of what mystery movies should be like and how they should be made, and is arguably one of the best mysteries I've seen that wasn't directed by Alfred Hitchcock. This is one of 1972's ten best films

chaswe-28402 Takes the Mickey, as they say. Surprise, surprise. The joke's on Shaffer, but I don't think he knew it. He doesn't seem at all aware of it in his off-putting interview, so intensely modest. Lord Olivier, whom we all know as Larry, is first reported to have had an extremely low opinion of Sleuth. It's a piece of p, he is supposed to have told Anthony Quayle, while railing at him for appearing in the original stage performance. I can't help feeling that Larry eventually leapt at the opportunity of taking the p out of Shaffer by performing in it himself. He gives the hammiest ever act as the passé whodunnit writer, capturing every nuance of cliché, in wild exaggeration. No-one seems aware of just how corny he comes across; not Shaffer, Mankiewicz, or even Mickey Caine. Or are they ? Or we ? It's very difficult to tell. But these days it's also a little difficult to last the full distance. Its almost unaccountable past popularity must have been because it was different then, though virtually dead today. Do the young of these times catch the slightest whiff of this kind of whimsy Wimsey ?

Hitchcoc Michael Caine and Laurence Olivier together. Need I say more. This, of course, was based on an incredibly successful stage play. It involves more twists and turns than can be mentioned here. The cool thing is that there is gamesmanship at every turn, and these two wonderful British talents don't disappoint. It involves a plot to get rid of a extravagant woman through manipulation. The kicker is that the two principles are both masters at solving problems, using creative solutions. They are equals and that's where the fun comes in. I have always loved it when a mystery film has enough complexity to have me fooled. Being a suspicious viewer, I really watch for nuances in these films, but this time they got by me. One of the best films of the Seventies.