how much of the average american population would be entertain by watch two dull and lifeless middle age men play a chess game for 2 hour and 18 minute . i can pretty much assure that number be pretty small . i personally love to play chess and but if you be to force me to sit and watch people do it and i would feel like commit suicide after the first thirty minute . that about how i felt watch sleuth . the entire movie be absolutely nothing but two men play a dull game from the opening to the closing . there camera never leave the house for the entire runtime . the most diversity in the entire movie be some minor clothing change and some facial expression . the entire movie be straight up dialogue and nothing else . the entire movie be two long and dull scene and with one scene change near the middle . if you have less of an attention span than the average person with down syndrome and you will be bore to the point of nausea long before the 30 minute mark . there be about as much entertainment value in sleuth a there be in watch a tree stump rot and and that may even be an overstatement and because at least do that you can use your own imagination . here and the most imagination you get be two men and four wall and and an insane amount of bland conversation . if that describe what you consider an entertaining movie and sleuth will keep you on the edge of your seat for sure . people would argue that the conversation scene i reference carry the clever plotting . in other word and the conversation scene carry a cute and predictably plot twisted story revolve around all the clichés that we have see since the camera be invent . there be nothing clever about the plot . sure it have a couple twist that will make you shed an awe and that be cute . smile and but theyre the same plot twist you have see countless time . this be a clichéd murder story and folk . it not some hyper original idea . if you saw a single sherlock holmes episode a a kid and you have see everything this movie have to offer . if the plot be truly clever or creative and it would do something new or different . the other problem with the plotif you even call it a plot while i do notis that it so predictable . no and you may not have any lead ons a to who kill who or who dead who not and but do it really matter . the outcome be always the same . youre always tell the answer and and there always only two option . it the most basic immature plot line know to man . i have see cartoon that put this plot to thumb suck shame . who really care anymore . i overuse the metaphor in my review and but a movie this unoriginal be like a joke you hear in kindergarten and then someone try to make you laugh at that joke when youre 80 year old . it ineffective . it pointless . even if you force a laugh and you still feel annoyed . i understand this movie be make in the 70 . people will defend it by say and there be nothing like it when it come out . and theyre dead wrong . all their do be defend their deep sense of nostalgia . in reality and this movie be just a unoriginal in 1972 a it be in 2009. and do you know what sadder . movie just like it be still be make and and theyre still get acclaim . it make me sick . we do not need another paper thing whodunit murder mystery with the same predictable result . what the mystery genre need be maturity . instead of pump out more kindergarten level plot line movie like this and why not actually think of an and you know and actual story to support the mystery . that something director or writer obviously do not get back in the 70 and and it something they still do not get today . instead of focus on plot and why not focus on story . overall and sleuth be a complete waste of time . it have a couple of intelligent high brow line and but i could get those from my die grandfather . why do i have to watch a pointless movie to hear them . and and similarly and i could get the same predictable level of mystery of watch this movie from play the clue board gamealone . why do i have to watch a pointless movie to do so . the more i think about it and i can not find a single redeeming value in sleuth whatsoever . it long and boring and dull and pointless and lame and slow and uninteresting and paper thin and predictable and annoy and pathetic . . . and most of all and sleuth be exactly the same story you have see hundred of time and yet it expect you to be enthral . now that be a clever joke . negative .