Great performance from Jeremy Irons, well deserving of his Best Actor Academy Award, kind of is a letdown as both a legal and character drama. Some nice moments and solid performances from everyone but not sure I'll remember this one down the road. **3.5/5**

Quite why Jeremy Irons won an Oscar for this performance is anyone's guess. Though it is certainly one of his better efforts, he still comes across as remarkably wooden and un-engaging. His character - Klaus von Bulow - has just been convicted of attempting to marry his wealthy, socialite, wife Sonny (Glenn Close) by injecting her with drugs and leaving her to freeze to death on the bathroom floor (odd how they've…

"Reversal of Fortune" is as satisfyingly complex and utterly fascinating as any murder mystery you might encounter. It successfully establishes the viewpoint of what might be considered a curious bystander and it just observes. It neither exonerates nor does it condemn Claus Von Bulow (it wisely leaves this task to the courts) and it draws no specific conclusions at all regarding the facts and the general minutiae…