UnowPriceless hyped garbage

Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Michael Ledo This is one of those crime thrillers that screams, "See how clever I am." You know from the mild beginning twists to expect more plot twists. The game I played was "How many twists can you identify?"Famous art thief Ripley (Morgan Freeman) recruits jewel thief Gabriel Martin (Antonio Banderas) to help him pull an impossible heist. Gabriel falls for Alexandra (Radha Mitchell) a friend of Ripley's. Meanwhile Lt. Weber (Robert Forster) is investigating Ripley, knowing he is going to rob a rich Russian living in NYC.The film moved quickly and kept me entertained. I enjoyed the acting and the dialogue with its innuendos. It is light enough of a crime thriller for the ladies to enjoy. The characters remind you, "Don't assume anything."Parental Guide: Brief F-bombs, sex, and nudity, but not excessive. Each in itself might constitute a PG-13 rating but collectively they would get an "R." Was that Banderas' naked butt in that love scene or a body double? I am guessing a double.

sddavis63 Generally speaking, I like Morgan Freeman, and in all honesty I guess he was OK in this. There's nothing in his performance as Keith Ripley that I could really criticize. Ripley is a professional jewel thief, who's planning to pull off the heist of the century; maybe of all time: stealing two Faberge eggs worth $20 million each from a New York City jewel dealer. In order to help him with that, he recruits a partner - Gabriel Martin (Antonio Banderas.) Banderas isn't really my favourite actor, but like Freeman, he does well enough in the role. The problem here wasn't the performances of the two leads. It was the material. It was, in short, dreadful.In the first few scenes of the movie you get a sense that this movie either wants to be a comedic sort of "heist" story or an action thriller. There are elements of both involved in those first few scenes. Or, maybe it's going to try to combine the two. I was actually intrigued after about 10 minutes to see which of those three options was going to be taken. And then - it took none of the three. After teasing us for those few minutes with what might have made a good movie, it just became a pretty standard, every day heist movie, with the Russian mafia thrown in for good measure, and a beautiful girl (Alex, played by Radha Mitchell) being considered necessary apparently.From about that 10 minute point on, I was honestly lost. I mean, not in terms of the story - that was clear enough; these guys want to steal the Faberge eggs, and Gabriel has the hots for Alex, who happens to be Ripley's god-daughter, and the daughter of one of the Russian mobster- types, while all the while the NYPD are trying to nail Ripley, even though they've been told by the FBI not to nail Ripley ... Did I say that was clear? OK. I exaggerated a bit. Truthfully, though, I wasn't really lost. I was bored. Stupefied. For most of the movie I was wondering why an accomplished actor like Morgan Freeman would take on a role in a movie like this?Then, as the end approaches, it's almost as if everybody who had anything to do with this (especially, I guess, the writers who produced the script) suddenly realized that they had quite a turkey on their hands - and so all of a sudden we're thrown twist after twist after twist, except that by this time I wasn't that interested in trying to keep track of all the twists, because I had just simply stopped caring. (2/10)

sergepesic Rarely anybody these days makes the heist movies anymore. Apparently, the are considered old-fashioned and the gurus of the film industry think they know what sells. And, now finally we have this lame cliché of just about every heist movie ever made. The twists that are barely twisted are utterly predictable, the glamorous atmosphere lacks any glamour whatsoever. What is Morgan Freemen doing in this B-movie? And Antonio Benderas again seems like fish out of water in American movie. He was never able to transfer his passionate flair overseas. And that just about sums it up. Completely uninspired, routine effort, that everybody involved did half-asleep. The same condition that I was in most of the movie.

kosmasp ... by the actors that is. Still the movie suffers especially if you have seen more than 1 or 2 movies. Heist movies that try to be tricky have to be especially careful. Or especially good, extraordinary even to really stay with you. And despite the fact, that you have Morgan Freeman and Antonio Banderas in this one, it never really touches genius level.You might not guess every little detail (or maybe you do?), but even so the conclusion isn't really satisfying. It's still a fun ride though and you have a few nice touches. It's nicely filmed and everyone is trying their best. I've seen much worse ... but as stated above, I've seen better movies too.