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"MURDER" Far From Perfect By Gene Siskel Chicago Tribune June 5, 1998 |
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"MURDER" Far From Perfect By Gene Siskel Chicago Tribune June 5, 1998 |
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Our Flick of the Week is "A Perfect Murder," and with a title
like that you might reasonably expect to watch the construction of a crime and sit in
judgment of whether perfection has indeed been achieved.
But that is not the case here, at all. Rather, we watch Michael Douglas in yet another
riff on his Gordon Gekko, "Master of the Universe" character arrange for the
murder of his wife (Gwyneth Paltrow), in a not particularly inspired fashion.
More time is spent establishing his tony lifestyle as a successful currency trader and
hers as a United Nations translator than the murder itself.
Surprisingly little time is devoted to characterizing the obviously sour nature of their
relationship. And, frankly, I would have rather seen "A Perfectly Lousy
Marriage" than "A Perfect Murder."
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