Deathtrap

Deathtrap is a very good twisty mystery. Although you just know that some of the twists are coming. But you won't get all of the twists, because that's insane. Too bad the DVD was full screen, which really annoyed me. Why do people ever want to fullscreen a movie? It sucks so hard. As for the movie, Caine and Reeve are very good. Dyan Cannon on the other hand was horrendously bad. So bad that you're happy she dies. So horrendously annoying. And that sort of twist isn't still in the first of two acts. There are so many other twists, both reasonable and unreasonable, that it does devolve into self-parody. But it is all intentional. That it's intentional is clear just from the fact that the people plotting it are mystery playwrights. It felt very play-ish, as the attempts to expand it from a play to a movie failed pretty much. It feels like a five-person play, and the other characters and scenes just felt tacked on.