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‘Under Suspicion’ is a remake of the French film, ‘Garde a Vue’ which itself is a remake of JohnWainwright’s book, ‘Brainwash’, and when I heard that Gene Hackman had waited years to make the film, I decided that it could not be missed.
Henry Hearst (Hackman) is a wealthy tax lawyer who is due to be making a speech at a charity event in San Juan, Puerto Rica, to accrue funding after a hurricane had devastated the area. The previous day he had reported a young girl to the police who had been strangled and raped. The police captain, Victor Benezet, (Morgan Freeman) asks Hearst whether he could come down to the police station for an informal discussion of the previous days events before he goes on to the charity ball with his stunningly beautiful wife, Chantal (Monica Belluci). Hearst cooperates and reaffirms the statement he made to the police the previous day, but we soon realise that Hearst’s story does not stand up to the evidence. Hearst continually changes his story to fit the facts, but seems to be implicating himself further and further as to having some kind of involvement with the girl’s death, and indeed to another girl who was murdered and raped in an identical fashion. We soon learn about Hearst’s marital difficulties, and indeed to his liaisons with prostitutes, which exacerbate the situation and indeed Benezet’s suspicions of his involvement.
The film is somewhat reminiscent of ‘Death and the Maiden’, where Sigourney Weaver holds Ben Kingsley hostage, as she is convinced that he tortured her years earlier. Kingsley is tied up until his guilt or innocence can be verified. In this film, there seems to be equal evidence as to whether he is guilty or not, and only at the very end does the audience find out. However, the evidence in ‘Under Suspicion’ overwhelmingly points to Hearst’s guilt, and this is accentuated by his guilty demeanour, with profuse sweating and rolling eyes.
This is an intriguing film, expertly acted by Hackman and Freeman, who are ably backed up by Monica Belluci, and Thomas Jane. Director Stephen Hopkins (Lost in Space, Predator 2) allows the audience to visualise Hearst’s account of events to see the cracks, but such clarity is seemingly lost for an obscure, but thought-provoking ending, where everything is revealed, apparently! Overall - 4/10
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Morgan Freeman and Gene Hackman star inUnder Suspicion, a suspense-filled tale of ... more
interrogation--less of a whodunit than a did-he-do-it. Freeman plays Victor Benezet, a police captain investigating the murder of a child, and Hackman is Henry Hearst, a ...
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