Sexy Beast (2001)
Average Rating: 7.2/10
Reviews Counted: 128
Fresh: 110 | Rotten: 18
Sexy Beast rises above other movies in the British gangster genre due to its performances -- particularly an electrifying one by Ben Kingsley -- and the script's attention to character development.
Average Rating: 7.6/10
Critic Reviews: 35
Fresh: 33 | Rotten: 2
Sexy Beast rises above other movies in the British gangster genre due to its performances -- particularly an electrifying one by Ben Kingsley -- and the script's attention to character development.
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Gary (Ray Winstone) is a former gangster who has made a modest amount of money from his criminal career. Happy to put his life of crime behind him, he has retired with his wife Deedee (Amanda Redman) to the sunny bliss of rural Spain, where he lives an idyllic life with his family and a few close friends. But Gary's contentment is ruptured by an unwelcome visitor from his past -- Don (Ben Kingsley), a former associate who has been hired to assemble a team of criminals to rob a heavily guarded
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Cast
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Ray Winstone
Gary "Gal" Dove -
Ben Kingsley
Don "Malky" Logan -
Ian McShane
Teddy Bass -
Amanda Redman
Deedee -
Cavan Kendall
Aitch -
Álvaro Monje
Enrique -
Julianne White
Jackie -
James Fox
Harry
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All Critics (131) | Top Critics (35) | Fresh (113) | Rotten (18) | DVD (31)
The talented Glazer keeps things crisp, clean and purposeful. The only flab on this film is around the waist of its sybaritic hero, a working-class crook who has finally gotten a taste of the good life, and doesn't want to lose it.
From the off it's clear at once that Jonathan Glazer will be a ballsy, switched-on film-maker.
Top CriticAside from [Glazer's] visual flair and gallows humor, he's still subtracted much more than he's added.
A marvelously suspenseful character study wrapped up in a refreshingly tight crime film.
Just the latest film to illustrate that filmmakers from TV and videos not only know what they're doing, but do it a whole lot better than we'd like to admit.
One of the more interesting efforts in its genre, though it has been somewhat overrated.
Stands head and shoulders above the late 90s flurry of British gangster movies. Stylish and confident and built upon a fearsome performance from Ben Kinglsey.
It's not just the ironic kick of watching the guy who played Gandhi get his rocks off on sociopathic violence. Ben Kingsley's Don Logan is one of cinema's all-time fearsome, loathsome villains - stalking even the frames from which he's absent.
When you get the chance, give this one a look.
Winstone e (especialmente) Kingsley carregam o filme com suas atuações magnéticas, enquanto Glazer confere charme à narrativa com sua abordagem bem-humorada. Infelizmente, o terceiro ato não sobrevive à ausência do personagem mais interessante do projeto.
This slight-seeming but trim and absorbing British import deepens in your head the more you chew it over later.
A film that takes a familiar premise -- in this case, a retired thief who is asked to pull one last job -- and makes it exciting again through the use of interesting characters, elegant camerawork and exhilarating storytelling.
A fun gangster film, telling the tale of you-can-never-really-leave that The Godfather, among others, championed so well.
An astonishing underwater robbery scene highlights this amazingly staged and acted film. A must-see.
It's nice to see a new director willing to spend as much time with his actors as he does moving the camera around.
Most crime stories, from Cain and Abel to Macbeth to Bonnie and Clyde to Pulp Fiction, show us that crime doesn't pay. Sexy Beast has more to say than that.
a chilly comedy of the darkest kind, set in a world where sentences are punctuated with profanities, weapons sometimes fall apart at unfortunate moments and people say things like 'You've got very nice eyes... Are they real?'
Guaranteed to inspire a thousand scene replays in pubs on a Friday night.
First-time director Jonathan Glazer tries so hard to be Guy Richie, without looking like he's trying to be.
Ben Kingsley goes way over the top in a departure from his traditionally more subdued roles.
Audience Reviews for Sexy Beast
Super Reviewer
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- Teddy Bass: Where there's a will, and there is a fucking will, there's a way, and there is a fucking way.
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- Don "Malky" Logan: Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!
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- Gary "Gal" Dove: I'm not into this any more.
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- Teddy Bass: See, If I cared, Gal, if I fucking cared, if I gave a solitary fuck about Don... Get out of the fucking car!
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- Don "Malky" Logan: I love you, Gal. You're lovable. Big lovable bloke.
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- Gary "Gal" Dove: This is madness, I've had enough of this "Crime and Punishment" bollocks. I'm happy here.
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It's kinda "The Long Good Friday" meets the domestic stuff in the Sopranos. Ben Kigsley is just wild and Ray Winstone is a truly lovable loser. All this and killer tunes.