Flawless
A film of Michael Radford is written by Edward Anderson to describe a retired man who still believes that a glass-ceiling American man can help him to steal a big diamond in a diamond corporation.
1965, England, UK
14 March 1933, Rotherhithe, London, England, UK
3 April 1946, London, England, UK
16 September 1942, New York City, New York, USA
19 June 1935, London, England, UK
13 April 1967, Gillingham, Kent, England, UK
28 July 1929, Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria
26 October 1948, London, England, UK
18 February 1963, Chard, Somerset, England, UK
11 November 1962, Roswell, New Mexico, USA
3 August 1958, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France
29 February 1928, North Kensington, London, England, UK
1971, UK
3 August 1949, Ireland
November 28, 2008
Ignore the dull framing device and this is a watchable period crime drama. Pity about the dull, oft-used title though.
July 16, 2008
For about 100 of its 108 minutes, this film treats the viewer to a stylish, suspenseful roller coaster peppered with all manner of ugly, money-grubbing corporate types.
March 28, 2008
Those of us who'll happily watch Caine in pretty much anything will find enough pleasures here.
November 28, 2008
Fatuous and soulless.
April 28, 2011
A mopey character study only half-convincingly tricked out as a heist thriller.
November 28, 2008
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.
April 25, 2008
Screenwriter Edward Anderson drops the South African angle in favor of more conventional developments and has a hard time bringing this across the finish line without a number of implausibilities.
November 28, 2008
There's little by way of thrills. Still, as a caper with a great cast and clever premise, Flawless works, despite its, um, flaws.
November 28, 2008
Calling a diamond-heist movie Flawless is a valiant choice - especially when it's anything but. Suspense is essential to this genre, but here you couldn't care less what happens next.
March 31, 2008
[It's got] some neat little twists and turns.
November 28, 2008
You will need a very sweet tooth for this kind of thing, and, to be quite frank, the heist itself is not dramatised all that excitingly or clearly. But I quite like thrillers featuring enormous circular vault doors.
April 11, 2008
The inspired pairing of Demi Moore and Michael Caine as a pair of thieves in the diamond-heist semi-caper movie Flawless goes a long way toward overcoming the film's slack, leisurely pacing.
