Usually Hand Waved by the villain remarking that simply shooting the enemy is too easy a death for them and instead coming up with something considerably more dramatic and sometimes more slow and painful. Sure, he could just shoot them, but where's the fun in that? So, he instead comes up with an over-elaborate, bizarre, and sadistic means to murder his heroic adversary in some potentially horrific fashion. I'll leave you with this beautifully written quote from the film: "I wonder if it wouldn't be.well.just a trifle starry-eyed of me to enter into such a risky and exciting collaboration.where I could count on no sense of moral an Evil Overlord wants to dispatch one of his enemies, he tends to go the extra mile. And it deserves to sit alongside Sleuth on your DVD shelf. But for me, it was the greatest and most rewarding blind purchase of all time. It's really, really hard to talk about the movie without spoiling important plot points that are infinitely more fun to discover on your own.
(Unfortunately, much of the dialogue would inherently spoil the immensely entertaining plot). As for Deathtrap, there's enough juicy dialogue in here to fill up its "memorable quotes" section. In fact, it was thanks to this movie that I got into a "Michael Caine phase" and started renting as much of his stuff as humanly possible. And watching him work with Reeve and Dyan Cannon was an absolute pleasure. He was glib, deliciously manipulative and sadistic. I absolutely relished Michael Caine's performance. I've always felt Reeve was a type-cast actor who didn't get much of a chance to shine outside of the Superman films and a few other flawed but entertaining films like Somewhere in Time, but this film shows that his potential was truly tapped and put to use, thank goodness. Reeve, rightfully associated with his now legendary portrayal of Superman, stole the show in what should've been an Oscar worthy performance. Though Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine turned in bravado performances in Sleuth, I was doubly impressed with Christopher Reeve as Clifford Anderson. It's one of those best-kept-secrets that movie buffs always are always delighted to discover. It was one of the finest DVD purchases I could've picked up. I purchased Deathrap in the bargain bin at Wal-Mart, figuring that it had Caine and the underrated Reeve and was worth the 6 bucks. The comparison to Sleuth, the earlier stage-play-turned-film, is obvious and upon my first viewing I too thought Sleuth was better, but Deathtrap has, at least for me, many more repeat viewings in it than Sleuth.
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