...and it was well received by the critics here, but thought it was very mediocre. There are a handful of fine scenes and strong performances scattered throughout the picture, but the two moments that really stick in my mind are the clumsy scene in which the whole plot is explained towards the end, and the truly terrible U2 sequence.

"Name other American movies inspired by foreign-language films based on American novels."

A Fist Full of Dollars (and the awful Last Man Standing) both based on Kurasawa's great movie Yojimbo, which was in turn based on a combination of Red Harvest and The Glass Key, both written by Dashiell Hammett.

I like good movie reviews and I know it's often impossible to write one without revealing the plot. So I don't read reviews of thrillers I plan to see - unless there's a strong chance they may suck.

So it infuriates me that whoever wrote the headline for O'Hehir's piece chose to reveal a key plot point of a highly acclaimed thriller in the headline.

A large number of people have not seen this film or even a trailer, and this blows part of the thrill. If the point is to spread the word about little known cinema, this is not the way to do it.

the revelation in question occurs in the first couple of pages of Coben's novel. The movie milks it a bit longer, but not that much. The major question is not whether the protagonist's "murdered" wife is still alive, but how and why such a bizarre thing could have happened. T'ain't a spoiler, in my book.

"A Fistful of Dollars" wasn't an American movie, despite being called a Western. It was an Italian movie, made in Spain, with an American star.

...the French film Purple Noon, based on "The Talented Mr. Ripley," which was later made into the American Matt Damon/Jude Law version decades later?