{"id":15082,"date":"2022-09-15T11:19:58","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T11:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moviesandshakers.com\/staging\/4428\/?p=15082"},"modified":"2022-09-15T23:20:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T23:20:20","slug":"see-how-they-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moviesandshakers.com\/staging\/4428\/see-how-they-run\/","title":{"rendered":"See How They Run"},"content":{"rendered":"
[vc_section][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]With a cast including Sam Rockwell, Saoirse Ronan, and Adrien Brody, Director Tom George could have let these actors have a lot more fun with this whodunit.\u00a0 <\/span>Plans to make a Hollywood film of Agatha Christie\u2019s legendary theatrical play, \u201cThe Mouse Trap\u201d turns the theatre into a real crime scene.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This film has the feel of a Wes Anderson production in the same vein as The Grand Budapest Hotel<\/i> or Moonrise Kingdom<\/i>. It\u2019s intended to be a drawing room comedy or farce, but the way the film is structured, with it\u2019s hard to follow plot line, it just doesn\u2019t capture the grandeur of Christie\u2019s original piece.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The consummate cad, self-centered Hollywood director, Leo Kopernick, (Adrien Brody), who was hired to make the movie version of the play is the first murder victim. But Brody lives on as this film\u2019s narrator while Detective Stoppard (Sam Rockwell) and the inexperienced Constable Stalker (Saoirse Ronan) end up working together, as well as against each other to solve the murder.[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”15087″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”15084″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”15086″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]Tom George\u2019s direction is sometimes confusing and unwieldy at times employing split screen to show the same action from different angles, often going in opposite directions. The technique wasn\u2019t effective. Rockwell really downplays his role as the bumbling, hard drinking Scotland Yard gum-shoe on the case. He usually adds a lot of personality and humor to his characters, but not here. There was definitely an opportunity to do so, but we have to wonder if Rockwell chose his character\u2019s demeanor or if that\u2019s the way George directed him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Saoirse Ronan plays a detective wannabe shadowing Stoppard, jumping to conclusions every time a piece of possible evidence comes to light. She\u2019s also star struck being in the presence of the actors, wanting to know everything about the proposed film. She jumps at the chance when offered free tickets to see the classic stage play. And there\u2019s always a character who thinks he\u2019s immune to being treated as a suspect. David Oyelowo as the film\u2019s self-centered screenwriter plays bored with the whole investigation, even though he\u2019s challenged for having a possible motive.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Stalker\u2019s enthusiasm is refreshing and helps buoy the production, but Ronan is capable of doing much more than play a sidekick in this film. Still, she is there as the prime comedic element. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn\u2019t, but she\u2019s cute as the ditzy Stalker. She is clearly the most likable character. It\u2019s sometimes hard to understand Ronan\u2019s fast delivery with her Irish accent. Too bad Rockwell\u2019s British accent is so inconsistent, and many of his words are lost as he mumbles his lines. We\u2019ve seen him more engaged. \u00a0<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”15085″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”15094″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”15092″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text]George\u2019s use of multiple angles and cutting is sometimes too complicated and frantic, or just curious. Set in the early 1950\u2019s, costumes and the cars are fun, but the most elegant set is that at the country house dinner, which, of course, goes completely awry. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The story leads all the actors, suspects and detectives to the grand country house of none other than Agatha Christie herself, played by a very underused Shirley Henderson. The prescient storyboarding of the climax by Leo, the now dead director, is supposed to be a Christie-like revelation, but it doesn\u2019t stick the landing. This movie <\/i>lacks the energy and smart banter of an Agatha Christie story. At least there\u2019s Saoirse Ronan to light up the screen. Moviegoers may walk slowly away from See How They Run.<\/i><\/p>\n

Searchlight Pictures. \u00a0 <\/span>1 hour 38 minutes \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>PG-13<\/i><\/b>[\/vc_column_text][vc_video link=”https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Q00qh7Ab6Mk” el_width=”80″ align=”center” css_animation=”fadeInUp”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][\/vc_section]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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