Television: Original Presumed Innocent with Harrison Ford was guilty pleasure but this version is just boring
Presumed Innocent review: Ruth Negga and Jake Gyllenhaal try but fail to save this distinctly unerotic thrillerHollywood keeps trying to bring back the 1990s erotic thriller, and its latest attempt is a small-screen reboot of the-Greta Scaachi potboiler Presumed Innocent . The results are slick and shallow and distinctly un-steamy – just what you’d expect from the king of the middlebrow blockbuster, David E Kelley, whose hits include Big Little Lies and Ally McBeal.
She plays Barbara, the long-suffering wife who has stuck by the odious Rusty even after he confessed to a fling with a work colleague. Barbara has agreed to stay with him for the sake of their two teenage children. But now his former lover, Carolyn, has been found brutally murdered – and it turns out that the affair wasn’t quite as “over” as Rusty claimed. More suspiciously, it is revealed that Carolyn was pregnant.
That’s the theory of Rusty’s odious rival at the public prosecutor’s office, Tommy Molto. He is played as a punchable creep byLong Lost Family: Born Without Trace review – powerful investigation of personal pain behind mother and baby homesFur & Loathing: an unsolved gas attack on a hotel and the rise of Nazi furriesGyllenhaal, meanwhile, tries to put clear distance between his performance and that of Harrison Ford by spending most of his screen time looking confused.
The original Presumed Innocent was a slick guilty pleasure, elevated by Ford’s Han Solo-gone-bad charisma. This remake slows the pace to a crawl and expands on Rusty’s world. We learn more about his marriage, his kids, and his career – but at the price of the high-octane absurdity that powered the 1990s movie. As an erotic thriller, it is pulseless. As a prestige TV show, Presumed Innocent stands guilty of boring its audience witless.
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