Cinema: Sleuth

Directed by Kenneth Branagh, Nationwide, 15A

Directed by Kenneth Branagh, Nationwide, 15A

A far less interesting attempt at revisionist retelling in Kenneth Branagh’s Sleuth, in which Michael Caine plays the same role Laurence Olivier did in 1972.

Jude Law fills in for him as the younger man and Anthony Shaffer’s cat-and-mouse stage play is rejigged as a spiteful seduction by Harold Pinter.

Caine plays millionaire crime novelist Andrew Wyke, the ‘master of menace’.

Law is Milo Tindale, a young ...