Exoticalot
People are voting emotionally.
ChanFamous
I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.
Teddie Blake
The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
Kodie Bird
True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.
carbuff
In my opinion, this is Demi Moore's best movie ever. I really wasn't crazy about watching this film, but I needed a compromise to satisfy four different people, all with different tastes. It was a somewhat complex Venn diagram, but this proved a perfect solution and a very pleasant surprise. To begin, this is not really a thriller, but falls perfectly into the crime drama classification. There is no violence or even any significant threat of it throughout the movie (except for one small part where you know Michael Caine isn't really serious--that's as close to a spoiler as I'm going to get). There is also little true action, it's really a drama. If you are under around 45 years old, I have some reservations about recommending this movie, because it will probably seem too slow. It is a throwback to movies from a time gone by, and while I watch and enjoy plenty of modern, R-rated, pulse-pounding productions, I really wish there were a lot more of these kinds of well-made, old-fashioned, good, clean films still being made. Once I was alone again, I decided to make it a long night and watched two very good modern cynical anti-hero type films, and after watching this film earlier, I felt a bit dirty. There might, after all, be something to recommend about some of the old-time values depicted in this movie. Just a thought.
slightlymad22
I stumbled across this little known Demi Moore and Michael Caine movie on TV last night, and on the strength of the lead actors, I decided to give it a go. A young reporter Natalie Dormer (from TV's Game Of Thrones) meets an old woman (Demi Moore complete with old age make up) Laura Quinn, to get her story about ........... Moore tells the story of being the lone female executive at London Diamond Corporation. In London in 1960. She is frustrated as her less-experienced male co-workers are promoted ahead of her. She is intrigued, when the mild-mannered night janitor, Mr. Hobbs (Michael Caine) approaches her with a daring but simple plan to steal a handful of diamonds from the vault.Joss Auckland has a supporting role and is as reliable as ever. It is funny, pet hates bother me even when I see it in movies. As I was getting annoyed when Michael Caine was talking away to Moore in a cinema during the movie. But it's hard to be too critical of a movie that gets so much right.It's a good movie, that had a decent amount of tension, The score is a valuable asset to the movie going from quirky to dramatic. Demi Moore remains one of the most talented and beautiful women in movies, and her ladylike sexiness is in rare supply. Any movie becomes better by having her name in it's cast.Given the talent involved, I'm surprised this failed to find an audience as it is more than an above average heist movie.
robert-temple-1
This is an intriguing and thoughtful film. Although it is about a huge diamond robbery, it is fortunately not a traditional 'heist film'. I hate most heist films. The lead roles are played by Michael Caine and Demi Moore. Michael Caine plays Michael Caine, surprise surprise. But that is OK, because that is more or less who the character is meant to be. The year is 1960. Moore plays a sleek, hyper-tense female business executive whose job is threatened, and who is struggling to survive at all in a world of sneering male chauvinist pigs. She is the only woman ever to rise to managerial rank in a London diamond company which controls all the South African diamond supply and runs the international cartel for diamonds. Caine has spent 19 years working, or one should say posing, as a janitor there, plotting and planning his big robbery. But what are his real motives? The film hinges on this, and the unexpected revelations of the origins of the proposed heist, which go back 19 years. Since Caine reads all the discarded memos and correspondence thrown into the waste baskets in all the offices, he knows what everyone is doing, saying, and thinking within the firm. (Remember, this is 1960, and everything is on paper.) Caine approaches Moore because he knows of her grievances, and persuades her to steal the codes of the giant safe containing all the company's diamonds. She eventually steals them from the home of the company's chairman, played very well, as usual, by the ever-reliable supporting actor Joss Ackland, veteran of 189 films. The plot moves on and develops some surprises, some very big surprises in fact. The film is intense, gripping, and entertaining. It was very well directed by Michael Radford, best known for Orwell's NINETEEN EIGHT-FOUR (1984), WHITE MISCHIEF (1987), and the sleeper hit IL POSTINO (1994). (On the subject of IL POSTINO, I have to say that although it was a lovely film, its depiction of the poet Pablo Neruda by the charming and cuddly French actor Philippe Noiret was wildly at variance with the truth. I met Neruda in 1966, and he was a vain, arrogant, haughty and egocentric poseur, the very opposite of the gentle softie portrayed by Noiret.) In this film, Demi Moore continues to massage us with her throaty voice and keeps 'looking good', despite having moved on into middle age. She has that something.
Mitch A
This movie was horrible. What "could" have been a decent flick turned into a nonsensical movie that cared much more about getting a leftist "message" to us dumb bumpkins out in fly over country than entertaining us with a decent quality movie.1. Woman are smarter 2. Woman work harder 3. Woman care more 4. Woman getting repressed 5. Fat white guys with cigars are evil 6. Evil Corporations greedily stashing money from the people 7. Robinhood syndrome 8. Making the script fit your Political narrative at every scene. Why did the investigator let her go? Nobody noticed this woman spending a 100m lbs?As bad of hidden leftist dribble as I've ever seen in my life. Time these elitists learn a hard lesson...The Nazi's would be proud of today's Hollyweird...