CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!

Helllins It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

bkoganbing Like the house in Long Day's Journey Into Night the estate on which Sleuth was shot almost is a character itself in this film adaption of Andrew Shaffer's play. From the cinematographer's point of view Sleuth can be best compared to that classic film of Eugene O'Neill's play. The souls of the dysfunctional Tyrone family are laid bare there. In Sleuth upper class mystery writer Laurence Olivier and hair salon owner Michael Caine are also laid bare. The difference is that these two are hardly related, in fact are antagonists in every way possible.That's because Caine has been bedding Olivier's wife. Not that it is of any real concern to Olivier as he has a mistress of his own. But there is a certain patrician pride involved.So he gets Caine over to his estate on a pretext and the two of them start playing mind games. Olivier is far more experienced at this then Caine, his set do it for sport. He beats Caine, but Caine comes back in a week for rematch and Caine who has a surname anglicized from Italian and had a humble station in life plays quite for real. He's also a fast learner.Dialog is almost all in this battle of wit and the repartee from Anthony Shaffer's pen is superb for both characters. Sleuth got four Oscar nominations and two of those went to both Olivier and Caine for Best Actor. But even with them splitting the Sleuth vote I doubt that either would have beaten Marlon Brando that year for the Oscar.I have not yet seen it, but I look forward to the remake of Sleuth with Caine now aged into the mystery writer's part. But this version is more than adequate, in fact superb.

rilana-1 I really enjoyed the cat and mouse intrigue of this movie. I was totally blown away by the mysterious happenings in it. I think the script and acting were superb and had me guessing most of the film. It was a total joy to watch it. What other films are as fun and challenging like Sleuth? I also have questions about the ending which really left me hanging. Did the pistol have real bullets or blanks loaded? Did Milo Tindle really die? I thought that maybe Milo Tindle put blanks in the ammunition box while he did all the other things to set up Andrew Wyke. Also, were the police car lights real and did the police really show up or was that another ploy of Milo Tindle? Please reply if you can help me understand the ending. Thanks, Rich

SnoopyStyle Crime fiction writer Andrew Wyke (Laurence Olivier) invites hairdresser Milo Tindle (Michael Caine). He surprises Milo with questioning if he wanted to marry his wife Marguerite. Marguerite is high maintenance and he suggests a scheme to Milo to steal his jewelery while he claims the insurance. After guiding Milo all around the house in a fake break-in, he shoots Milo. Inspector Doppler comes to investigate Milo's disappearance but it's only the start of the continuing twists.What's the motivation for Milo to go see Andrew in the first place? What's in the note? That kind of bothered me. It starts like an Agatha Christie murder mystery in that it feels fake. It's highly questionable why Milo would trust anything that Andrew comes up with. The whole fake break-in feels fake. Luckily it's a little comical. It's fun to have Olivier and Caine play around but I never bought into the whole premise. I'm not thrilled by all the twists and turns. It felt like manufactured story constructions but Olivier and Caine are wonderful.

jlimbo9 I watched this movie over a year ago, and it will forever be my favorite movie. Laurence Olivier and MIchael Caine deliver the best performances of their careers!The plot is intriguing, gripping, complicatedly complex and disturbing. The mental torture both characters go through, the twists that happen within the story are utterly mind bending! With every twist as good as the previous.Whilst Caine is pretending to be Inspector Doppler, we see how amazing both actors are, how Caine can play MIlo Tindle, a hairdresser in over his head, and then transform into a character seeking revenge, and how Andrew Wyke, a greedy, jealous old man who lives in fantasy and prides himself in his own success, goes from cunningly frightening, to completely helpless and distraught.For the whole film to be held by only two actors, should have won all 4 of it's Oscar nominations, but competing against The Godfather (1972), was proved impossible. A film 52 years old, is still better than any movie that has been released in the past 10 years, a film so simple, yet complex, could never be re-created in 2014, it is chilling, gripping, disturbing and unbelievable brilliant!No one should die without watching Sleuth.