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As much as I am completely intrigued, this is absolutely a film that did not need to be remade. And especially not in a creepy state-of-the-art high tech house vs. the original's charmingly dark and spooky English manor.
That being said, I adore Michael Caine and i think him getting to play the Olivier role is awesome.
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I'd never seen the original -- just checked it out on IMDB and thought I'd share w/ those who are also unfamiliar with it that Michael Caine played the role of the younger antagonist in the 1972 film. I'll be adding that to my Netflix queue.
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Michael Caine also starred with Christopher Reeves in a knockoff of Sleuth with the same basic plot called "Deathtrap" in 1982. Directed by Sidney Lumet. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083806/Posts: 407 | Registered: Mar 2006
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Okay, so that's why the plot sounded so familiar--I have seen Deathtrap. So I guess that adds to Leonide's comment about this film not needing to be made!
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I found it pretty ironic that Jude Law is playing against him. It's like the Alfie on Alfie smackdown!
I'm also somewhat encouraged to see that Branaugh is directing. I hope it's better than the Italian Job and Ocean's 11, which both were idiotic compared with their forebears.
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