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The Limey

Thriller starring Terence Stamp as an East End gangster who goes to LA in search of his daughter's murderer. With Peter Fonda, Lesley Ann Warren.

Movie rating: 4 star rating.  - very good.
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Stars: Terence Stamp, Peter Fonda, Lesley Ann Warren, Luis Guzman, Barry Newman
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Year: 1999
Running time: 89 mins
Certificate: 18
 
 
Director Steven Soderbergh's knee-deep in crime again, but this is a good way short of his previous thriller Out of Sight, or indeed the later Erin Brockovich or Traffic. Supposedly playing the same character (now 30 years older) that he created in the film Poor Cow, Terence Stamp is embarrassingly bad as the East End crook who descends on LA in search of the guys who offed his little girl. Stamp seems to be almost chewing (perhaps choking on) his banal dialogue. 'Jenny loved the ocean,' consoles his contact (Lesley Ann Warren). 'Yeah,' sighs Stamp. 'She was from an island.' We see things before or after they happen - then again when they do, but this is a clumsy device that matches the rest of Soderbergh's direction here. In fact the whole film has an amateurish, low-budget feel that does no favours to Stamp or Warren - or to Peter Fonda and Barry Newman as the villains.


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