A pointer from Peter Sobczynski's review of Wake Up Dead Man (2025) with the warning that it was intricately plotted but characterless, and hence unmemorable. Directed by Sidney Lumet from an adaptation of Ira Levin's stage play by Jay Presson Allen. Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, Dyan Cannon connive in a manner too similar to the superior Sleuth (1972). As you can infer from the small cast and import of the leads there are many switchbacks that are mostly predictable as the movie disappears up its own fundament. Irene Worth's Dutch psychic is a bit tedious.
Roger Ebert: three stars. Reeve's performance "has a light, handsome comic touch not a million miles removed from Cary Grant's." Janet Maslin. Depthless.
