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Subject: A Perfect Performance

Author:
L Watson

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Date Posted: 16:45:21 03/07/02 Thu
In reply to: DBSAABER 's message, "MOVIE REVIEWS: A PERFECT MURDER" on 16:19:28 03/05/02 Tue

This is a movie which should be seen by anyone who wants to see how well Viggo Mortensen can act. It's not Indian Runner but it's a performance that is a good as it can possibly be.

The plot is adapted from Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder but with added twists. Gwyneth Paltrow is a rich, married woman having an affair with Viggo Mortensen's artist character. Her husband, Michael Douglas, confronts Viggo's character, not to stop the affair but to offer to pay Viggo to murder his wife. Things don't work as planned and the plan has to be improvised. The two male characters play a devious game where the audience is never certain what they are plotting or thinking. The film is not deep but it's very entertaining and lots of eye candy in the set design and costumes.

A seasoned Viggo fan knows that the paintings in the film are his own; some are in the Recent Fogeries book. But it's not just the actor become a painter which makes his performance so good. The slickness of this thriller plot is the result of Viggo and Douglas's performances. Viggo keeps you on edge, guessing and trying to figure out what his character is really about. We know his criminal past but is he going to commit the crime? Does he love her? Viggo splashes paint on a photo of Gwyneth showing the turmoil his character is feeling. Why doesn't he just get her to leave her husband? He's in agony when he thinks she's been killed. But then, more twists. Will he run with the money?

We start out believing that Gwyneth's character may be willing to risk her marriage to be with a fledgling artist. Viggo's character is the handsome attentive lover. But watch the physical transformation his character goes through. His hair and dress change. He moves differently. The emphasis is on Douglas's character but we think we know what he's up to. The plot wouldn't have worked so effectively without Viggo's performance which twists and turns and like the plot gives clues but not all the answers.

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A Perfect Murder	SandyinBoise	21:02:36 03/22/02 Fri