While the resolution may never be in doubt, how the film arrives there is a constant source of pleasure.
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A Perfect Murder (1998)
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Reviews Counted:48
Fresh:26
Rotten:22
Average Rating:6.2/10
Reviews for A Perfect Murder
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06/24/06
Top CriticWhat Andrew Davis has essentially done is to take one three-star movie and turn it into another three-star movie.
01/01/00
...A Perfect Murder has inexplicably managed to eliminate almost everything that was worthwhile about Dial M for Murder, leaving behind the nearly-unwatchable wreckage of a would-be '90s thriller.
01/01/00
...the story offers so many lapses in logic, so many plot holes and so much dialogue to howl for that there's plenty to talk about afterward.
01/01/00
His [Davis] direction is swift and very effective, and the movie, shot in shades of ebony (the color of black marble), looks exceptionally handsome.
01/01/00
As is the case with too many remakes, the slick new take falls short.
01/01/00
I think it works like a nasty little machine to keep us involved and disturbed; my attention never strayed, and one of the elements I liked was the way Paltrow's character isn't sentimentalized.
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Top CriticAndrew Davis (of Fugitive fame) has created a new and improved version, with first-rate performances.
01/01/00
Somewhere, Alfred Hitchcock is yawning.
01/01/00
You don't have to believe a word of the strained dialogue in A Perfect Murder to be seduced by the movie's chilly high-gloss ambiance and its skillfully plotted update of Frederick Knott's play...
01/01/00
Top CriticNone of the amusement gained in watching the performances, unfortunately, amounts to much, as the script, in a desperate attempt to lend action interest to the original, static, puzzle plot, compounds surprise turn after surprise turn.
04/12/02
...there's nothing about this thriller to prevent it from soon becoming enmeshed in the memory with others in which Michael Douglas wears a starched collar and grits his teeth.
01/01/00
...simpers along with relatively little suspense or thrills...
06/05/02
...the film is so lacking in anything original that it is hardly worth recommending.
12/08/02
A thriller without much genuine suspense isn't much of a thriller even if the atmospherics are dead-on.
01/01/00
An effective remake of an ineffective Hitchcock thriller.
01/01/00
slick and twisted tale provides two delicious hours of intrigue and mystery, along with some unexpected wit and black comedy...
07/02/03
A streamlined, high gloss, touch-tone remake of the lesser-Hitchcock classic. Harken ye back to the days of rotary dialing.
01/01/00
Paltrow, too, is generally a good actress but there is a paint-by-numbers quality to her work here.
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