Sick Product of a Sick System

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Comparisons against the original 1972 film starring Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine in the Milo role have not been favorable for this remake. I haven't seen the prior picture but will likely seek it out now, based on other reviewers' comments on this board. My main point of concern with the story is with the character of Milo Tindle, portrayed by Jude Law. To my mind, anyone dumb enough to fall for the plan laid out by Andrew Wycke (Michael Caine) to simulate a break-in and steal his jewelry, wouldn't be smart enough to come up with the revenge plan he masterminded to even the score. Not only that, but Milo was ready to accept Andrew's second proposition to live in the guest suite and cut Maggie, the woman we never see, right out of the picture. I'll admit, I didn't see the original twist coming that revealed Wyche's third gun shot to be a blank, but knowing that he was an utterly remorseless liar, it didn't take much effort to figure he would set his opponent up for the kill for real. The finale was a bit more abrupt than I expected, but quite welcome given the absurd nature of the story.

I understand why everybody speaks about how remake stayed in the shadow of the original, but I've first watched this one and I was impressed. Maybe because I love the movies with the talking and expressing feelings rather than some car chase action or romantic crap with silly humor. Two great actors, great movie and nothing else (M.Caine from original movie, but in different role now).After watching, I've enjoyed in original black-white movie even more.

I hate when a poorly made new and unnecessary film re-make pushes a superior original into the shadows. The Olivier original is in the Amazon Top 250 Films of All-Time....and yet try to find a copy of it on DVD AT A REASONABLE PRICE. Hopefully, someone will at Amazon will realize that the DVD isn't priced correctly and then the demand will result in a re-release of this DVD! How do we get Amazon to revise their prices? I see this happens sometimes with books on Amazon, but this is the first DVD I've wanted that's been affected by these computer glitches. Is there a CONTACT AMAZON or a complaint center we can refer this to? Please advise them if you know how...Until then, I'll just be patiently waiting for the price to come down on the DVDs of the original version.

This film came recommended to me by a good friend who knew I was into revenge type films, a bit of a slow start (I found it quite arty-farty ) I watched it to the end hoping there was some kind of epic twist to make it all worth the wait, very disappointed, literally the only nice thing about this movie was the house it was filmed in.If you are in to movies where everything is based in 1 spot, with very poor attempts of using witty 'English' language to make an already boring plot more interesting...Then this one's for you.To sum it up, it's like a musical but without the singing.rated 1/10