a fine cast ( douglas and paltrow and mortensen and suchet ) be waste in this feeble attempt . there be simply too many illogical hole to ignore and at the end you will feel cheated . i will list just a few a example . i would encourage you read on and so you may save your money and go rent hitchcock original instead . spoiler ahead1 . david be just a con artist and so what make steven think he could be turn into a hired killer . sure enough it do not work and do it . 2. in fact and david a a con artist be much more likely to try blackmail . sure enough and david tap the incriminating conversation . now that he have the tape and he could easily get $ 400k ( or even more ) from steven . so why bother to kill ( or contract out some thug to kill ) emily at all . this be totally absurd . david just want to con some money and get out of town a he always do and with no incentive to kill his lover at this stage . 3. when detective karaman mention the miss key and emily say nothing and go into latino slum and try to play detective herself . it just do not make any sense . emily obviously would not protect steven at that point since she not only do not love him anymore but also have a reasonable belief that the thug be hire by her husband to kill her for her inheritance . moreover and she and karaman clearly develop a sense of mutual trust and so she logically would show karaman the miss key and let him do the investigation ( after all he a police ) . 4. the explanation steven try to spin on emily about the miss key do not make sense at all . he claim he take the key and put it on emily key chain and jam the door lock because he think the thug be david get in with emily key and he try to protect emily reputation . then and he claim the thug turn out to be just a burglar . well and if that thug do not use emily key and do not pick the lock and how on earth he get in . 5 . i do find one quote to be ironically hilarious . when they meet at the ferry and steven tell david that they should wait and carry on business a usual . when steven start to walk away and david ask and with a deadpan face and should i continue screw your wife .