TELL NO ONE
I had high hopes of this French adaptation of the Harlan Coben thriller given that it won several prestigious awards. Alas, it failed to deliver. Coben is a writer who is deft at pacing his novels so that each plot turn or revelation adds to a momentum that usually leads to an exciting conclusion. Sadly, this film didn't manage to do this, and instead of being gripped I became progressively less engaged so that by the time we get to a prolonged unwrapping of the mystery I had tuned out. It starts off as an intriguing mystery to be sure. Dr Beck is a widower whose wife was murdered in strange circumstances eight years previously yet now he starts getting messages that seem to be from her. Can she be alive? If so, where's she been in the interim? Who was murdered in her place? If this wasn't mystery enough some other dead bodies turn up, and there are some very bad people keeping tabs on Beck in the hope he will lead them to his wife. And the police seem determined...