See How They Run

It's one of those smaller movies that won't get a lot of attention from mainstream audiences, but it got mine. Would've paid to watch this anyway, even though I didn't win the ticket giveaway contest GSC had online. 

Joke's on them because I got myself to catch the 10.30 a.m. screening at the second home because I didn't want to spend the extra RM6 to watch it later. I even got to choose parking spaces, that's how early I was at a mall on a Saturday. But I was cutting it really close because I had only sat down a few minutes before the movie started at 10.45 a.m. (so no half hour ads for this? I call it a win).

In the West End of 1950s London, plans for a movie version of a smash-hit play come to an abrupt halt after a pivotal member of the crew is murdered. When world-weary Inspector Stoppard (Sam Rockwell) and eager rookie Constable Stalker (Saoirse Ronan) take on the case, the two find themselves thrown into a puzzling whodunit within the glamorously sordid theater underground, investigating the mysterious homicide at their own peril.

It's basically set around the (still running) Agatha Christie play The Mousetrap, with cast members playing real life people like Lord and Lady Attenborough and of course, Agatha Christie herself. 

If you're a Christie fan, then you might know the stipulation that there can't be a film adaptation of The Mousetrap until at least six months after the initial run of the play. It's 2022 and it's still going, pandemic be damned. The way I see it, that film adaptation ain't happening in my lifetime. But this movie skirts around that stipulation in that it's based AROUND the play, but not ON the play. They didn't even spoil the play in this. 

• At least most of the cast got to use their own accents, except maybe Sam Rockwell. Even Saoirse Ronan got to be Irish. 
• Adrien Brody plays a great asshole in this one. 
• As someone who only knew Lord Attenborough as the old man from the 90s Jurassic Park, let's just say the guy playing Dickie in this is way too good looking LOL 
• I wonder how much was Adrien Brody and Shirley Henderson paid for their screen time... cos let's be honest, it wasn't all that long. But I don't hate that she got to be Agatha Christie in this. 
• In case anyone is wondering, no, Wes Anderson didn't make this movie. But it would be easy to make that mistake because there are some Wes Anderson players in this and there's the hint of that Wes Anderson whimsy. 

It's a whodunit farce, but I enjoyed it for what it's worth. 

Because it's a smaller movie per se, it's only playing in some GSC cineplexes, under their International Screens banner. It's also under 2 hours long, so yay.