SEE HOW THEY RUN (2022) ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Tom George
Saoirse Ronan, Sam Rockwell, Adrien Brody,
David Oyelowo, Reece Shearsmith, Ruth Wilson,
Harris Dickinson, Pearl Chanda, Shirley Henderson
Whodunits. You see one, you've seen 'em all. At least that's the opinion of Leo Kopernick (Adrien Brody), an American director in London, hoping to shoot the screen version of "The Mousetrap", which has gone over 100 performances and (its producer thinks) can't go on much longer. What Leo doesn't know is that in this particular whodunit, he's the victim, the obnoxious character nobody likes, the one destined to be bumped off so the investigation can begin. The investigation is in the hands of Inspector Stoppard (Sam Rockwell) and Constable Stalker (Saoirse Ronan), and they'll get the job done, if only he can stay sober and she can avoid jumping to conclusions. It's a comic mystery in the tradition of "Knives Out" and "Murder By Death", playing off (and sometimes into) Agatha Christie's famously long-running play. One of the suspects is a stuffy, pompous Richard Attenborough (Harris Dickinson), and Ronan's a hoot as the eager, crime-solving apprentice, forever taking notes and tossing off puns, always just a hair out of sync with whatever's going on. She also does a crackup Katharine Hepburn impression.
