Passable thriller in which a husband tries to have his wife killed for the two oldest reasons.

##Dial M

This movie is a remake of “Dial M for Murder,” a much more effective movie.
In any case, the story revolves around man whose going broke and whose
wife is worth millions to him, if she’s dead.

He decides he needs to killer, and making it even easier for him is the
fact that she’s been having a red hot affair on him. And he knows who the
guy is.

From his point of view this is perfect. He hires the guy that’s having an
affair with his wife to kill her.

##For a thriller to work

For a thriller to really work, the audience can never be quite sure what’s
coming next. Alfred Hitchcock is the acknowledged master of this. Remember
in “North by Nortwest” when, near the end of the movie, Cary Grant needs to
get a message to the woman that she’s in trouble. He writes the message on
a matchbook cover and throws it towards her hoping that she’ll see it
before the other people in the room. Tremendous suspense was created
because nobody in the audience quite knew if should actually would see it
first.

The problem for me with this movie is that too many times I turned to my
wife and said “I bet that…” or “She’s going to…”, and I was right.
There was just no suspense.