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Reviews Counted:86
Fresh:47
Rotten:39
Average Rating:5.7/10
Consensus: Michael Caine's excellent performance makes Flawless something more than an average heist movie.
Runtime: 1 hr 49 mins
Genre: Dramas
US Box Office: $1,146,525
Synopsis: Michael Radford (IL POSTINO) brings an artful touch to Edward Anderson's screenplay with FLAWLESS, a serious account of a remarkable heist at London Diamond, one of the world's premier diamond... [More]
Starring: Demi Moore, Michael Caine, Lambert Wilson, Joss Ackland
Director: Michael Radford
Demi Moore is excellent as the catalyst for the crime caper with a profoundly personal motive, something we don't discover until late in the film, and Michael Caine is wonderfully dry as the office cleaner with an agenda
Top CriticThis is an old-fashioned escapade that respects everyone's intelligence and allows you to cheer for the underdog. Moore actually plays an age-appropriate character who handles the heavy burden that represents women at the time with depth and aplomb.
a classy, smart, and fiendishly sly piece of filmmaking that keeps the audience on the edge of its seat
Unlike Ocean’s Thirteen, this formulaic heist movie has a streak of psychological perversity.
Flawless more than compensates for its rough edges.
Moore redeems herself from the mediocrity of her Brat Pack years and the career-killing mistakes of early adulthood. Having matured into a convincing middle-age actor, she comes across as intelligent, sophisticated and driven.
That old-fashioned does not necessarily mean musty is proven by Flawless, which does not entirely do its title justice but is a deliciously entertaining heist thriller nevertheless.
It's a satisfying picture enhanced by a few great sequences, and proves there's still plenty of life in heist cinema.
Yet for all the imperfections, Flawless is a film you find yourself rooting for. Heists involving a keen sense of history are pleasant to stumble across.
Caine alone is worth the price of admission.
Michael Caine's performance in Flawless is just that. As for his co-star, Demi Moore ...
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.
Ignore the dull framing device and this is a watchable period crime drama. Pity about the dull, oft-used title though.
Flawless makes an entertainingly nostalgic journey to old Britain -- that black-and-white world we remember from long-ago Alfred Hitchcock and David Lean movies.
Top CriticCleverly written and brilliantly made ... the type of classy and tasteful British crime-drama that Caine has long been associated with.
May not live up to its title, but when Caine's onscreen it definitely sparkles.
It's a work of brilliant cut, color and clarity that delivers on almost all of its ambitious promises.
It's good disposable entertainment that offers the right mix of character identification, plot unpredictability, and suspense to keep viewers interested throughout.
Revealing when it needs to be and unpredictable when you least expect it.
For the most part Radford turns in a hushed, marble-polished heist film with a genuine sense of tension and mystery
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