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Jude Law is a pretty actor and does his usual satisfactory job in this remake. If you’ve never seen the recent you’d probably mediate it was a decent enough movie. But if you’ve seen the unique, with Michael Caine, you’d be wondering why they bothered to produce this in the first place- especially the butchered version that resulted.
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Like a lot of latter day remakes, this is very powerful a prettified version of the recent. All of Law’s conquests have model obedient looks- as does Law himself, for that matter. He’s also a worthy deal more refined, in accent and in manners, unlike Caine’s rather rude Cockney. He moves about in stunning surroundings. And that loses an necessary element of the setting of the new. Alfie did not live in a blooming world, and his conquests were not necessarily handsome women; in mountainous portion they were women whom someone else desired- and that was what compelled him to seduce them.
Caine’s (and the novel’s) Alfie exploited worn women; for whatever reason, the director, or perhaps the producers, decided this Alfie’s conquests had to be original, strong women who exhaust him as mighty as he uses them. That of course makes Alfie a pleasant deal less of a cad; Jude Law’s Alfie is not leaving slow the wrecked lives that Caine’s did, and he becomes almost sympathetic at one point- a sentiment completely absent in the book and the novel movie.
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In the ruin, this version misses the considerable Alfie- his inability to study flaws in himself, even as he rationalizes his actions and convinces himself that he’s doing the legal thing. The result is a shallow character glimpse completely lacking the depth and impact of the new.
Why does Hollywood support making remakes of classics that cannot possible be improved upon? This is a Shallow, tepid, very abominable remake compared to the Michael Caine, 1966 modern. The performances, especially Jude Law (who is usually kindly in film) are a disappointment. The direction is uneven and stilted. There are offensive scenes. I will stick with the 1966 novel and forget this mess.
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