The plot is deliciously twisty. The decision to reinvent the characters almost from scratch was a good one. The sex is a bit too concealed as if directed by a an ex-nun. So it kind of feels overly censored.
The most distracting is the amateur-level score that fails to generate the right atmosphere and just functions as an annoying loud and irrelevant noise. It's almost as if someone just cut and pasted it from some flop film from another genre. Frankly they did a far better job in the 1960s although even that would not exactly earn awards.
If someone can let me have a version without the score I'll do it for free! My inclination would be to give it a jazz feel like they used to in the 60s and early 70s. For me a lot can be learned when doing retro remakes from the brilliant Tinker Tailor score of 2011.
The most distracting is the amateur-level score that fails to generate the right atmosphere and just functions as an annoying loud and irrelevant noise. It's almost as if someone just cut and pasted it from some flop film from another genre. Frankly they did a far better job in the 1960s although even that would not exactly earn awards.
If someone can let me have a version without the score I'll do it for free! My inclination would be to give it a jazz feel like they used to in the 60s and early 70s. For me a lot can be learned when doing retro remakes from the brilliant Tinker Tailor score of 2011.