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my impression of this one..

posted 11 years ago by sml7799
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It started out slow...but I wound up really liking it.

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I thought that it was a little chilling how JW's character was like, a paragon of affability, and then, with mere minutes left to go in the flick and he pulled a persona 180 in a nanosecond and was suddenly a very bad baddie. I feel as if I should've expected it...but I totally didn't.

Also I was amused how the secret society folk met up with those ominous looking tea cozies over their heads and refer to each other by numbers rather than names (which reminds me lots of The Prisoner). But at the end you learn that everybody knows everybody else and they're all good chums. It's like the number-names and headgear was a gimmick for the benefit of anyone who might be spying from the closet.

[–] marcia_lou 11 years ago

I liked it too. I thought it was pretty funny - a spoof of the English drawing room murder mystery.

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[–] gridoon 10 years ago

James Warwick seems like a caricature of the "cultured English gentleman" for much of the film....until you get to the end and you realize that his "poor" acting was actually very purposeful.

[–] Klein_Returns 10 years ago

Interesting.

[–] louiseculmer 7 years ago

I think it's a very good adaptation of the novel. I remember being astonished by the ending the first time I read it - everything turning out the exact opposite of what you have been led to believe. I think this TV version manages very well.