Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Aubrey Hackett While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Albert Kaba . . . with two legendary actors? Anyone who's under 40 who can't judge the film based on its own merit, has no sense of film.

jimbo-53-186511 A bank executive Thomas Crown (Steve McQueen) pulls off a multi-million dollar heist and craftily shifts his ill-gotten gains to a safe-haven in Geneva. However, insurance investigator Vicki Anderson (Faye Dunaway)and her partner Eddy Malone (Paul Burke) are hot on his heels and are determined to capture Crown, but complications ensue when the criminal and investigator seemingly fall for one another.I can imagine back in the late 60's that a film like The Thomas Crown Affair would sell itself; Steve McQueen (the epitome of cool) and a plot involving a heist job (essentially an Oceans 11 or Italian Job type film). Whilst it may have won audiences over back in the day, viewing it from a modern perspective the whole thing looks incredibly dated and badly put together...OK I'm prepared to accept that the first 10-15 minutes of this film are good and lay out the foundations for a fairly promising heist film, but pretty much as quickly as it starts this film stops dead and slowly ambles towards dullsville.So OK the heist happens and then what?? Nothing, expect scene after scene of dull chatter and next to no plot development. Faye Dunaway and Paul Burke arrive as private investigators and despite an early lively and spirited performance from Dunaway the film never really lifts off the ground. There is just no excitement, intensity or fun in this film - anyone expecting an Italian Job or Oceans 11 type film is going to be mightily disappointed.The film is also filled with lots of elongated and pointless sequences; Dunaway and McQueen spending 10 minutes cruising round the beach in a beach-buggy and them both having a game of chess which seemed to span for about 5 minutes or so. You may think I'm being cynical, but to me that is 15 minutes of screen time that I felt could have been better utilised on character or plot development.Having witnessed such mind-numbing boredom and being in the face of such dull characters I did hope that there may be light at the end of the tunnel, but no the film offers no real surprises and happily coasts its way towards Dullsville.Be warned folks, just because a film stars Steve McQueen and is a heist film it doesn't automatically make it a good film. This is crap and I think that the only reason that it has a reasonable rating is because it is a Steve McQueen film. Yes he is the King Of Cool and yes he is quite a good screen presence which may have gone along way back in the late 60's, but let's not pretend that this rubbish is any good simply because Steve McQueen stars in it. The truth is that it is dull and rather forgettable.

tom-durham I am going to compare the two movies in this review, 1968 original (this film) and remake, without spoilers. I watched them back to back for the first time with an open mind.The main similarity is that there a heist, a police investigation and a love connection in both these movies.Other than this, the movies felt quite different, with entirely different locations, activities and even the item being stolen is different. With the 1968 version I felt that the pacing was slower, and the plot was more straightforward (less interesting).The love connection:I don't feel that there was more or less chemistry between the characters in either film, it was more the pacing, where the original has more time spent on the two main characters together, and more emphasis on body language than dialogue. In the original, the characters leave you in less suspense as to what they are doing and why they are doing it. The suspense is in the relationship.The heist:The heist premise is entirely different in both movies. The remake version is clearly superior in every way. In the original it feels like a very small part of the film, like a plot device that just happens rather than a major part of the story. In the remake there is much more detail, and you are left guessing what will happen, it feels more on the edge of your seat.The police investigation:The original police investigation into the heist relies more on the love connection. The remake includes more detailed side plots and investigations that tie well into the main plot, which makes it seem so much more interesting and clever than the original.Conclusion:The plot of the original is fairly simplistic in comparison and not as interesting. If you love dramas you may appreciate the dedication to the characters of the original, but to me it felt like quantity (original) over quality (remake).

SnoopyStyle Thomas Crown (Steve McQueen) is a successful businessman. He recruits men to pull off the perfect crime robbing a large bank. The police is getting nowhere with the investigation. They allow the insurance investigator into the case and Vicki Anderson (Faye Dunaway) immediately zeroes in on the debonair Thomas Crown.Director Norman Jewison is throwing all the cool stylings of the era at this movie. He has the coolest Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway is playing a sexy ice queen, and he's using all the cool visual style like the split screen. It is super cool, but there isn't much heat. The leads' cat and mouse games are just visual editing fun. Even their sexy scenes are just cute jazzy music, and interesting cuts. The action is pedestrian. The caper is uninspired. I'm sure McQueen had a ball hanging out with Dunaway, driving the dune buggy, and sipping champaign. At last, this may be a movie of its era that has become dated over the years. It needs more fun, and drama.