The Good Thief (2003)
Average Rating: 6.8/10
Reviews Counted: 142
Fresh: 110 | Rotten: 32
Bolstered by Nolte's strong performance, The Good Thief brims with seductive style.
Average Rating: 7.1/10
Critic Reviews: 39
Fresh: 32 | Rotten: 7
Bolstered by Nolte's strong performance, The Good Thief brims with seductive style.
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Loosely based on Jean-Pierre Melville's French film noir Bob le Flambeur, this heist film from director Neil Jordan (Interview With the Vampire, The Crying Game) stars Nick Nolte as Bob, an aging American thief living in the French city of Nice. Addicted to both heroin and gambling, Bob is in the midst of an extended personal losing streak when he rescues a new girl in town named Anne (Nutsa Kukhianidze) from her pimp. When the opportunity to steal a fortune in rare paintings from a Monte Carlo
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Nick Nolte
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Tcheky Karyo
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Said Taghmaoui
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Emir Kusturica
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Nutsa Kukhianidze
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Ralph Fiennes
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Marc Lavoine
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All Critics (146) | Top Critics (40) | Fresh (113) | Rotten (33) | DVD (22)
While Jordan's repeated freeze-frames try a little too hard for nonchalance, the overall cocktail of Gallic insouciance and American film noir grit delivers such relaxant properties you forgive a few foibles.
Top CriticMr. Jordan has lovingly recreated much of what glittered in the hard French thrillers that once starred Delon and Belmondo, and provided a superbly customized vehicle for the salty charms of ashtray-voiced Nick Nolte.
Great fun despite its deficiency as a presumed thriller.
It's a heist film with a muddled plot, a character study with no personality.
Rumpled and dissolute, Nolte shambles through this gracefully atmospheric crime film with a cool poignancy that verges on the comic.
This is a movie for which you want to give an award to the casting director, Susie Figgis.
Nolte's hard lived, leather-lined face looks like a Muncie road map, and fits robber Bob to each crease.
The best and most enjoyable English-language crime picture since Jackie Brown.
When it comes to movies about one last, high-stakes score, Nolte in The Good Thief pales next to Gene Hackman's low-keyed brilliance in Heist.
Es casi una película hecha por divertimento, lo cual no está nada mal, pero no hay que pedirle mucho más que eso.
Ao contrário do impecável anti-herói do original, Nick Nolte confere vulnerabilidade ao protagonista e, no processo, leva esta refilmagem a superar a produção de 1955.
A fine film: Jordan creates the seedy ambience and Nolte provides the complex performance that together carry this film through a few minor rough patches.
Watching an actor at the top of his game is a pleasure even if the film is only good, not great.
Outside of Nick Nolte's performance, the rest of the film is a by the numbers heist drama
A heist movie without a thrilling heist is obviously in trouble . . .
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