The original here is one of the best thrillers, energetic in a way that distracts us from the revelation of the con.
This is a lesser movie, but adds at least three clever ideas. If you are interested in narrative structure, you'll be interested in remakes of films and how they change. (I think these are changes to the original.)
First, in true folding style, they added a film within the film. The film within is a recruiting film, but that hardly matters.
Second, they changed the dynamic of the detective by making him a her. This allows for the third change but along the way the possibilities exist for the three types of women: the virgin, the whore and the shrew. It isn't played up well enough to matter, but its clear that someone's intuition was tuned.
Third, there is a final twist that I think is quite different than the original's. It bonds the three women, already hinted in a lesbian tendency between the first two.
But amazingly, the film didn't work well for me, probably because of pacing problems at various levels. Not that any level was off by the interplay of levels wasn't syncopated according to what engages. Its an intuitive process, I think, but quite rigid in its rules.
Isabelle Adjani was cast perfectly, and introduced very skillfully. Beginnings are hard.
This in its original incarnation was the first double con movie, I think. Adding a third was inevitable, I suppose.
Ted's Evaluation -- 2 of 3: Has some interesting elements.
