Two men swap murders, except one of them thinks it's a joke. One of
Hitch's least dated and most purely exciting movies, a fantastic
showcase for his trademark gallows humour, visual jeux d'esprit (the
tour de force tennis match scene), and chilly, prurient fixation with
criminality. Walker offers the director his most rounded madman, a
suave, nattily dressed mother's boy with a streak of vicious
desperation a mile wide. Granger and Roman are a little stiff, but that
has the salutory effect of nudging us unsettlingly towards the killer.
Unassailably classic from famous start to famous finish.
