A Perfect Murder 1998 123movies

Watch: A Perfect Murder 1998 123movies, Full Movie Online – Millionaire industrialist Steven Taylor is a man who has everything but what he craves most: the love and fidelity of his wife. A hugely successful player in the New York financial world, he considers her to be his most treasured acquisition. But she needs more than simply the role of dazzling accessory. Brilliant in her own right, she works at the U.N. and is involved with a struggling artist who fulfills her emotional needs. When her husband discovers her indiscretion, he sets out to commit the perfect murder and inherit her considerable trust fund in the bargain..
Plot: Millionaire industrialist Steven Taylor is a man who has everything but what he craves most: the love and fidelity of his wife. A hugely successful player in the New York financial world, he considers her to be his most treasured acquisition. But she needs more than simply the role of dazzling accessory.
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Ratings:

	6.6/10 Votes: 86,510
	56% | RottenTomatoes
	50/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 1138 Popularity: 20.77 | TMDB

Reviews:

You should thank me. Artists are always appreciated more after they’re dead!

A Perfect Murder is directed by Andrew Davis and written by Frederick Knott and Patrick Smith Kelly. It stars Michael Douglas, Gwyneth Paltrow, Viggo Mortensen, David Suchet and Sarita Choudhury. Music is by James Newton Howard and cinematography by Dariusz Wolski.

A powerful husband. An unfaithful wife. A jealous lover. All of them have a motive. Each of them has a plan.

A re-imaging of “Alfred Hitchcock’s Dial M for Murder”, which itself was by the great director’s admission not one of his best, Andrew Davis’ (“The Fugitive”) film may not reach great heights, but it at least is its own animal. The twists and turns are solid enough for entertainment purpose, and suspense is never far away. The characterisations bring about differing and alternating responses from the viewers, which is a nice trick in the tale, and while the finale seems a touch “popcorn crowd appeasing”, this rounds out as a satisfying suspense thriller. 7/10

This is one I’ve seen a few times over the years (last time was nearly 10 years ago). Wonderfully devious performance from Michael Douglas and Gwyneth Paltrow holds her own (and looks great). Not an amazing thriller but kept my attention to the end. Fine direction by Andrew Davis who a few years before directed the great thriller, The Fugitive. **3.75/5**

This update of the Hitchcock thriller is not bad…
… the original being “Dial M for Murder” from 1954. Lots has changed in the ensuing 44 years, and those changes to society are reflected in the remade film. Here the wife is cheating, not with a guy who is an upright citizen if you overlook he is bedding a friend’s wife, but with an artist who has a criminal past of conning rich ladies. Gwyneth Paltrow is the young wife, Emily, with inherited wealth, Michael Douglas plays Steven, the older husband whose financial interests are crumbling and figures out his wife is cheating and with who. He threatens the artist with exposure – to his wife and the police – if he does not agree to kill his wife for money so that Steven can inherit her money and save his business.

So everybody is guilty to a degree. There are not “good” characters and “bad” characters as in Dial M. Society has become too cynical for that to work. Keys still play a big part in the plot as do phone calls, but instead of the brilliant inspector Hubbard figuring everything out, here it is the wife that unravels the plan. The detective in this modern film is largely useless. In the original film the wife is a damsel in distress, unable to determine what exactly has happened and the forces that are arrayed against her. But Paltrow as Emily is an empowered would have been victim.

slick Douglas but don’t care about couple
Emily (Gwyneth Paltrow) is the wife of wealthy New Yorker Steven Taylor (Michael Douglas). She’s an aide to UN Ambassador Alice Wills and having an affair with painter David Shaw (Viggo Mortensen). Steven suspects her infidelity and is in dire financial trouble. He also discovers that David is con man named Winston Lagrange and offers him $500k to kill his wife. After the break-in, police detective Mohamed Karaman (David Suchet) investigates.

In the original, Alfred Hitchcock is able to create some limited sympathy for Grace Kelly by making her a blackmail victim. There is no such feelings for Gwyneth Paltrow. Also David Shaw is a con man in this version so there is no likability for the cheating couple. Douglas is a great slick puppet master but I don’t really care about these people. It’s great to have Douglas slithering across the screen but director Andrew Davis is unable to generated the needed tension or thrills.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 47 min (107 min)
Budget 60000000
Revenue 128038368
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director Andrew Davis
Writer Frederick Knott, Patrick Smith Kelly
Actors Michael Douglas, Gwyneth Paltrow, Viggo Mortensen
Country United States
Awards 2 wins & 3 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Panavision Cameras and Lenses
Laboratory Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak)
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm