An art thief (Pierce Brosnan) and an insurance investigator (Rene Russo), play a high-stakes game of cat and mouse in this glossy remake of the Sixties favourite.

Along the way, they get their kit off, fall in love to the strains of Sting singing Windmills of Your Mind, go on luxury holidays and meet interesting people (weirdly nice cop Denis Leary, strangely haunted psychiatrist Faye Dunaway).

It's bewildering that anyone would want to remake the 1968 flim-flam flick, but it's groovy to see a heist caper-comedy thriller again, and this is a thoroughly professional job.

Provided that you can accept a plot that has more holes than a Polo mint factory, and an obviously tacked-on happy ending, it's a pleasant time-filler.

No split screen, erotic chess game, Noel Harrison, and of course no Steve McQueen, though.

The original was the essence of cool; these players look desperate to please when they turn up the heat.