For all the revelations about the way the rich operate, there’s little juicy pleasure to be had in the proceedings.
It stretches beyond its handsome Hitchcockian pedigree to a world of blowzy Shakespearian intrigue.
A little light in the extras department but fans of the film will be pleased to have it on a reasonably good-looking Region 1 disc.
The film treats the events surrounding the 1979 assassination of South Korean president Park Chung-hee as an elaborate joke.