bujaki
Senior HTF Member
Saw this when it came out and liked it very much. Time to revisit.I watched Gumshoe today at lunch (streamed from Prime), and it was as delightfully quirky and fun as I had always been led to believe it was. And it so cunningly evolved from oddball comic riff to a deadly serious murder mystery that it kind of stands apart from most movies of the era. It was Stephen Frears first time behind the camera, so the picture has a peculiar pace to it that also defies categorization. And Finney is just brilliant in it.