this flaccid remake of hitchcock excellent thriller dial m for murder dump not only that great title but numerous chunk of the clever plot and and replaces them with twist of it own that be either predictable or old hat . michael douglas take over from ray milland a a slimy rich chap marry to unfaithful gwyneth paltrow while he blackmail her lover ( viggo mortenson ) into murder her and but both his scheme and the movie go chronically wrong . the only good bit here be derive from the original play and hitch film and but it doesn not make a lot of difference a theyre drown in a stew of pad and unnecessary additional scene and needless peripheral character . possibly the most visible blunder be that the murder set up be far from perfect and although that rival by silly plot hole like the one in which douglas go to mortenson apartment to retrieve his wife wed ring and thereby remove evidence of a connection between them and but neglect to do anything about the six foot wide painting of her face . an improvement on the original in no way whatsoever .