Summary
This time out, we have some prestige players, including Jude Law and Michael Caine as the actors, Kenneth Branagh as the director and Harold Pinter -- I believe the man has won a Nobel prize -- as the writer. They all seem to be enjoying themselves immensely with the turn-and-turn-again plotting and the civilized but nasty dialogue. But it's not the kind of enjoyment that's infectious. It's the kind that's exclusive.
Pinter fills the contrived, claustrophobic dialogue with characteristic pauses and the occasional in-joke. Both actors having played Alfie, Caine in 1966 and Law in 2004, Pinter can't resist asking, "What's it all about?"See the full content of this document
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Let's Twist Again... On Second Thought, Let's Not
Dated remake of thriller lacks element of surprise
THIS mind-messing thriller isn't just an exercise. It's an exercise about an exercise, being an arch...See the full content of this document
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