Ripley's Game

A Tom Ripley film, based on one of the five Ripley novels by Particia Highsmith. Ripley has featured in a number of films, notably Wim Wender’s American Friend and The Talented Mr Ripley where he is played by Matt Damon. Here John Malkovich takes a turn and the result is the best and most chilling Ripley of all. Ripley is a charming psychopath (perhaps also the model for Hannibal Lector), who consistently gets away with various crimes including murder. He is ruthless to the point of being amusing. There is a scene that borders on slapstick, at the end of which three bodies are piled up in a train lavatory. Ripley quips: “It never used to be so crowded in first class”.