i completely forget that i would see this within a couple of day and which be pretty reveal in itself . the umpteenth version of gaston phantom of the opera leroux lock door country house mystery and i have hear that it be an engaging and witty update . so it appear from the likable title sequence and a few neat touch in the opening scene and but the film very quickly ground to a halt and become vaguely tedious and wholly unsatisfying . a a mystery the major problem be that it be fundamentally unsolvable by the audience represent like the bad agatha christie and it depend on a character appear in the final act with a wealth of background information that we have not be privy to . a a film and be it comedy or thriller and the crucial problem be that characterisation be almost non existent . with the exception of the killer and everyone be a face value version of the typical suspect in the typical country house murder story reporter and endanger heiress and suspicious fiancé and scatterbrained scientist father ( a surprisingly poor michel lonsdale ) and etc . there no depth and little of interest and and the frequently over ripe or misjudge performance do not help . you frankly do not care about anyone in it and so there no jeopardy or suspense . only claude rich and and in the last reel and pierre arditi get anything to work with and and only in the last reel do the film get close to a sense of resonance that be too fleeting to be really effective . for the rest and we get endless exposition and a couple of ineffective would be comic set piece ( a promise one with a photographer trap inside a grandfather clock be just too poorly think through to pay off ) and with dennis podalydes reduce to irving the explainer for the last third of the picture . i be not fond of country house movie or agatha christie style whodunit and so those who be might cit it a lot more slack and but i find it a poor show . a rich say when the mystery be reveal and it all rather something of a disappointment .