Watch: Determination of Death 2001 123movies, Full Movie Online – In order to free themselves from debt, a husband and wife plan to fake the husband’s death but the scheme goes terribly awry..
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a very nice popcorn whodunit
The whodunit is a genre that has not fared well over the years. Murder, She Wrote is typical – uninteresting stories, poor acting (except, in M,SW, for the lead actress) and an unimaginative climax. This movie is the very rare exception. The story is quite good for a TV movie and the actors keep you engaged. Yes, Marc Singer’s performance is over the top, but so is his character, as evil a villain as you’ll find in any film. Singer is a fine actor, which makes his wildly intense bad guy a pleasure to watch. All of the other actors do a better than creditable job, and the ending is a genuine surprise and makes sense to boot. The writing is entertainingly manipulative, designed to keep you guessing and off the track. — Remarkably, the movie never drags and everything going on is essential to the internal logic of the story – except of course for the obligatory love interest between Greene’s and Katt’s characters. And the use of flashbacks to the attempted murder is a bit overdone. But on the whole this film is far better paced and absorbing than 8 or 9 out of 10 of the TV thrillers turned out these days.
Obeys all the rules without excesses
It’s a long way from Hill Street to this, but Veronica Hamel is still good to watch. In this case in an interesting situation wherein everybody would like to see her brother-in-law dead. And this seems to happen without anyone knowing how. Then a fat insurance policy turns up, the company sends in their investigators, but nobody finds out anything except the spectator in the last five seconds. Ho, hum; good TV-style scripting, as may be guessed from the director’s experience in producing these kinds of films. Of course Hamel is OK, and Michele Green is quite good, but Marc Singer as her husband has played this rôle so many times he did not have to try very much. The result is an entertaining TV-style film, with only a little violence at the beginning, and lightly humourous touches to keep things rolling. Nothing difficult: just to keep you amused trying to guess who did what to whom and you won’t get it right! Worth five out of ten, simply because it does not try to be pretentious and does not leave you with a headache afterwards.
Original Language fr
Runtime 1 hr 40 min (100 min), 1 hr 30 min (90 min) (Germany)
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Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Crime, Drama
Director Michael Miller
Writer Sharon Barry McTigue, James G. Hirsch
Actors Veronica Hamel, Michele Greene, John Ratzenberger
Country United States
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Sound Mix Stereo
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Negative Format 35 mm
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Printed Film Format 35 mm