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Flawless (2007)

Director: Michael Radford

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From Time Out London

London, the 1960s: Demi Moore is Laura Quinn, an American-born high-flyer at an old-school diamond firm, while Michael Caine is Hobbs, the long-serving caretaker in the company’s City HQ. Quinn and Hobbs make odd allies in a plot to relieve their employer of their jewel stash: she is frustrated by the condescension of the company’s male management while he is facing an impoverished retirement.

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. You can experience this sort of mildly intriguing crime mystery on TV any day – why go to the cinema for it? And the film’s framing, with Moore appearing at the beginning and end to tell her tale to a journo, is as lazy as the belated lengths to which the writer goes to argue that Quinn and Hobbs are social crusaders.

Author: Dave Calhoun

Time Out London Issue 1997, November 29 – December 3, 2008

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Budd Greco said...

Posted on Aug 04 2009 11:07 Demi Moore actually puts in a brilliant acting performance in this movie..Not a lot of people will notice that..What is it with M.Caine in the last years..Give him a supporting role..Batman..The Prestigue and he gives fabulous performances that are strong, confident and enduring..But give him a starring role and he goes into the hamper of his past movies and puts on a pantomime..In this we have bits from Educating Rita, Sleuth and a couple of others..but none of them have anything to do with THIS Movie...This movie could have been another LOOPHOLE..Which is an excellent robbery movie from the early carear of M.Sheene..O.K so the script was poor..but Demi M Whom I barely recognised was terrific..Yes I will say it again..i WHO WOULD NORMALLY AVOIT THIS ACTRESS LIKE THE PLAGUE..sHE WAS BRIL...and actually gave what turnrd out to be a weak movie some substance..I totally blame M.Caine...his acting was none existent and the whole movie is tainted by it..although the plan was more correlated to stealin hot dogs from a stand on Blackpool pier than diamonds from a vault..All I can say to all concerned with this movie is..IF YOU AIN`T GONNA BOTHER..WHY BOTHER AT ALL...
2 STARS..bOTH FOR dEMI

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