Amazon.com video review:
This remake of Preston Sturges's 1948 comedy follows the same
plot but doesn't produce nearly as many laughs, though it does have its
amusing moments. Dudley Moore is a famous orchestra conductor who is
convinced that his wife (Nastassja Kinski) is having an affair with his
best friend, a flamboyant violinist (Armand Assante). So he plots an
elaborate scheme by which he will kill them both and get away with
murder. That fantasy, which he has while conducting an orchestra,
rapidly falls apart once he actually tries to put it into motion. Moore
and Assante compete for overacting awards, while Kinski was never much
of an actress to begin with. Still, this was one of Moore's better roles
during his brief bout with stardom in the '80s, and any movie with
Albert Brooks (as Moore's venal manager) in it can't be all bad.
--Marshall Fine
