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Michael Caine's excellent performance makes Flawless something more than an average heist movie.
Average Rating: 6.1/10
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Michael Caine's excellent performance makes Flawless something more than an average heist movie.
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Michael Radford (Il Postino and The Merchant of Venice) directs screenwriter Edward Anderson's script about an aging janitor and an American executive who form an unlikely alliance in order to carry out an elaborate jewel heist. Set in 1960s-era London, the tense crime thriller stars Michael Caine as the scheming maintenance man who longs to relieve his employers at the London Diamond Corporation of their valuable inventory, and Demi Moore as the savvy executive who is completely perplexed by
Mar 28, 2008 Wide
Jun 3, 2008
$1.1M
Magnolia Pictures
All Critics (94) | Top Critics (18) | Fresh (53) | Rotten (41) | DVD (7)
For about 100 of its 108 minutes, this film treats the viewer to a stylish, suspenseful roller coaster peppered with all manner of ugly, money-grubbing corporate types.
Screenwriter Edward Anderson drops the South African angle in favor of more conventional developments and has a hard time bringing this across the finish line without a number of implausibilities.
[It's got] some neat little twists and turns.
This is supposed to be a caper movie. Shouldn't it have a heroine who looks as if she could, you know, conceivably, caper?
The plot contortions that very slowly unfold under Michael Radford's arthritic direction in Flawless are not much...entertaining.
There is a nice sense of style, and appreciation for tense face-to-face confrontations among characters trying to ignore the temptations around them. It's sort of the opposite of the current robbery flick The Bank Job - all substance and no flash.
A mopey character study only half-convincingly tricked out as a heist thriller.
There's little by way of thrills. Still, as a caper with a great cast and clever premise, Flawless works, despite its, um, flaws.
The problem is that as heist movies go this is about as captivating as watching someone dodge a bus fare. Almost everything about the film is second-rate: the direction, the plotting, the intrusive modernist production design.
Ignore the dull framing device and this is a watchable period crime drama. Pity about the dull, oft-used title though.
Fatuous and soulless.
You will need a very sweet tooth for this kind of thing, and, to be quite frank, the heist itself is not dramatised all that excitingly or clearly. But I quite like thrillers featuring enormous circular vault doors.
Calling a diamond-heist movie Flawless is a valiant choice - especially when it's anything but. Suspense is essential to this genre, but here you couldn't care less what happens next.
"Hang on lads, I've got a great idea..." said Michael Caine at the end of The Italian Job. Presumably he didn't mean waiting 40 years before pulling off a caper that wouldn't blow the bloody doors off a rabbit hutch.
Diamonds aren't forever in this sluggish heist caper from Michael Radford that partners Michael Caine and Demi Moore for the first time since 1984's Blame It On Rio.
They don't make thrillers like this any more, and for good reason.
Like many Christmases, the whole thing leaves you stressed, exasperated and longing to leave for home.
If ever a film title begged to be abused, this is it.
Demi Moore will do as the ghost of Hollywood past, rattling her jewelled accessories like a drag-queen Jacob Marley.
If only the plot was as sleek.
Yet for all the imperfections, Flawless is a film you find yourself rooting for. Heists involving a keen sense of history are pleasant to stumble across.
Enjoyable heist thriller with strong performances from Moore and Caine, though the ending is slightly disappointing.
Demi Moore is never allowed to do an accent again. The script may account for some of the inconsistencies by remarking that she's a expatriated American, but such excuses can only go so far.The film is about disgruntled employees of a diamond company organizing a heist.There are a few moments when we're drawn in by
February 22, 2011
Super Reviewer
Not the best Michael Caine Film that?s out there but still its worth watching. About a robbery in 1969 of a Diamond Thief from the London Diamond Exchange. Demi Moore teams up with Michael Caine to pull off this heist. 3 1/2 stars.
September 12, 2010Super Reviewer
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