A Perfect Murder (1998)

Were we supposed to sympathize with adulterous couple Gwyneth Paltrow and Viggo Mortensen, because from the start of this movie I was rooting for Michael Douglas to pull off A Perfect Murder as promised. He doesn't of course, and the twists and turns of loyalties abound in this lose update on Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder, a superior film. The biggest problem I had with this movie was the lack of chemistry amongst the leads, and the lack of strong rooting interest in anybody, at least after Douglas's first variant on his scheme ends in failure. David Suchet, Hercule Poirot himself is in this, and as a police detective no less, however he is given very little to do and is almost an afterthought. This movie isn't badly put together, still I lost interest pretty quick. **