Remaking the work of a master director is a high-risk strategy. Look at what happened to Diabolique, which systematically mangled Henri-Georges Clouzot's classic French chiller. A Perfect Murder is an adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M For Murder, in which the action is shifted from '50s London to '90s New York. Director Davis (The Fugitive) isn't really in the Hitchcock league - well who is? - and he's come up with a preposterous, albeit mildly entertaining, piece of thriller hokum.
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