The reworking of the old Frederick Knott damsel-in-distress stage play, Dial M for Murder, filmed originally (and in 3-D) by Alfred Hitchcock, is sufficient to qualify as too-many-cooks but not to qualify as genuine originality. Did the business with the key makes better sense in the 1954 film? (Why can't the homicidal husband give the hired assassin his personal key or a copy -- why does it have to be his wife's key -- when he intends to retrieve it after the killing anyway?) The match-up of Michael Douglas and Gwyneth Paltrow could make sense only to a Hollywood "packager." With Viggo Mortensen and David Suchet; directed by Andrew Davis. (1998) — Duncan Shepherd
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