Ordinary Decent Criminal
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Movie Reviews of Ordinary Decent Criminal
Movie Review: Spacey must have had a double!
Summary: 2 Stars
Spacey's character moons the press near the start of the movie. However, the moon was hairless and curvy. In "American Beauty," Spacey showed that he has a nice posterior, but it was hairy and a bit flat. Like Kevin Costner and Val Kilmer, Spacey must have added to the list of Hollywood actors who wimp out of nudity. He is not as brave as Harvey Keitel, Ewan McGregor, or Jude Law. What a shame coming from a man who is usually so edgy in his work.Movie Review: What a RIP OFF!!
Summary: 1 Stars
I waited for over three years for this movie to show up in the United States. It never made it to US theaters, so that should give you a clue. Miramax knew it was terrible, and made a wise choice to not release it here. It has to be the worst movie Kevin Spacey ever made. His Irish accent was almost non existant. It looked like he didn't even try to sound Irish (My wife is from Ireland and I lived there for over a year and a half). We have over 30 Irish movies, and this is the worst, BY FAR!
The cover of the DVD says that it is based on a true story. If it was, it was VERY LOOSLY based on the life of Dublin gang leader Martin Cahill. I read the book The General, and also saw the wonderful movie with the same title, starring Brendon Gleeson and Jon Voight, and both were very realistic versions of Cahill's life, and I highly recommend them!
This movie, however, is very far removed from what actually happened to Cahill and his gang. Without giving away any of the plot, I will say that much of what takes place in this movie, never could have happened, in real-life Dublin. For one thing, the police (Garda) in this movie, all wore civilian clothing, which makes it hard to distinguish police from crooks or IRA members, who also wore civilian clothing. Very confusing, to say the least, as there were other gangs involved, in addition to The General's.
The crimes, which is where the title comes from, as Cahill (called Michael Lynch in this movie, but WHY?)tries to commit all the crimes, with as little violence as possible. However, some of them actually involved very tricky, well-thought-out plans, which would make him, something of a genius. In Ordinary Decent Criminal, they are not adequately explained, or portrayed, at all.
Linda Fiorentino plays Lynch's wife, and does a fair job with the Dublin accent, and Colin Farrell, who IS Irish, doesn't have an accent problem, but his part is so small, you hardly notice him. His name and photo, does appear on the cover, but is only there for drawing power.
The only people who should buy this DVD, are die-hard Spacey fans, who will spend any amount of money to to see Kevin in ANYTHING, no matter how bad it is.
Movie Review: I am giving it to Salvation Army thrift store
Summary: 1 Stars
Eek.
Slightly disgusting to begin with (two adoring wives to one husband and they don't even compete?) and really disgusting at the end (Spacey's character suddenly becomes really violent, including shooting people in the back.)
Neither comedy nor drama, this movie is somewhere in between never really fully anchoring in any particular genre. Perhaps the movie was supposed to be ironic but at the end our reaction was: Huh? What's the point?
Movie Review: This movie is a crime
Summary: 1 Stars
This is one of the worst movies I have ever seen. The original movie "The General" was a great movie. Which only make it more difficult to understand how Miramax could have made such a bad movie.This is a "Keystone Cops" style of movie. Do not expect to see a believable or likable character in the movie, only slapstick comedians in laughably bad staged scenes. If you want to see the real version of this movie get "The General", not this appalling version.
Movie Review: Enjoyable as Snatch? Yeah, right....
Summary: 1 Stars
This is one of the most boring movies that I ever saw. The DVD box says: "If you enjoy Snatch you'll enjoy this" (or something like that)... with this great cast you must think that's true, but the movie is horrible, I tought Kevin Spacey was a smart guy when he pick un scripts, but I guess I was wrong. The movie is soo slow that you may get sleep... Don't buy it, don't rent it, don't see it on television...