Good Old Fashioned Movie

I agree. And in a way it seemed to me like an homage to those British comedies like the one they were watching in the theater. All those wonderful men's faces, with their stiff anxious expressions, and their characters and fates individually offered to us as something worth contemplating in itself and not just for the sake of a plot point.
I liked the fact that Laura Quinn, too, was a heroine who did not want a man, or children, or anything except her job--and that when she ended up finding there's more to life, that "more" had nothing to do with her romantic life, either. It would have needed a minimum of rewriting for Quinn to be a man, I think, and then he would have fit right in with the heroes of those 50s British comedies. I really liked seeing a woman in a role like that.

Very good movie. I expect only the British to have the sensibility to come up with something like this.

Meh, I liked the old fashion-ness of it as well. But the rest was pretty shoddily thrown together. Poor character development that had them acting completely different depending on what the scene called for, generic and uninspired dialogue, tedious sequences that were hard to get through at times, and more diamond heist cliches than you can throw a book at.

-Janitor in on scheme as he has access to goods - check
-Loved one in trouble used as reason for crime - check
-Needs accomplice as something comes up he can't get around (numbers being moved) - check
-Accomplice being 'pushed' into stealing by something (in this case the company passing her over) - check
-Big problem right before heist (security cameras) - check
-Dream of heist going wrong (then for some reason agreeing to it?) - check
-Getting lucky in regards to security (the guard eating) - check (Laziest piece of writing i've seen in who knows how long by the way. Wrote yourself into a corner did you screen writer?)
-Investigator: 'Oh, there is just...one more thing...' - check


Although in all fairness, I didn't finish the movie so some of these could be incorrect. I just couldn't take any more, and then checked the timer to realize there was 40 minutes left, and I honestly didn't care how it turned out for any one of the characters.

Demi couldn't act her way INTO a paper bag as we all know, but Caine was in fine form as usual, which is always a treat to see. Beyond that and the aforementioned old school style, it was a big letdown in my opinion...

PS: He's a 75 year old man who smokes regularly, yet he moves a total of 2 tons of diamonds over a period of 3 hours? That's over 300 lbs of diamonds being moved every 15 minutes, yeah huh. Again, whoever wrote this needed a few more weekend writing seminars at his local community college before he submitted a final draft to the studio...


In-film effects > CGI