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Perry Mason: Chapter One (2020)
George Smiley repalces James Bond in a Bond movie.
The Perry Mason I knew from the novels was a self assured, confident, charismatic, sharp minded guy, out witting anyone and everyone, a legal genius, pulling plans out of his hat, always almost crossing the line, but knows when to stop.
The Perry Mason that we get here is a almost a hollow shell of a man, barely managing his life. Tired, lonely, no direction in life, getting beaten up by mafia wannabe movie producers chums.
It's like somebody George Smiley has replaced James Bond in a bond movie.
The set up to 1930 is great, the sets are great, camera, cinematography, color, production everything is to the point, apart from the main guy.
Instead of being a thriller/suspenseful legal drama (Perry Mason is hell of a lawyer) they have made this into a hard boiled noir. It's more like a character from a James Hadley Chase novel then Perry Mason.