Sexy Beast
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Movie Reviews of Sexy Beast
Movie Review: Not Noel Coward indeed! Scary.
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a wonderfully constructed caper movie that will creep you out.
Did Ocean's 11 creep you out? Did Ocean's 12? Or The Italian Job? Caper movies are not scary: plan the heist, get the jewels, escape from the police, party.
This movie will frighten you because Ben Kingsley plays a demonic sicko. (Really I want to use stronger language.) And he does it brilliantly. He says in the commentary that one of the young sassy actors was very respectful to him -- and to no one else in the cast. But Ben, you have BECOME a world-class blood-thirsty psycho. Kingsley was so convincing, he convinced other actors.
This movie has it all: a tropical paradise, romance, a twisted plot, a big heist, a nutjob thief. What more could ask of a caper picture?
It's just plan terrific and Americans won't need a Cockney-American dictionary to understand it as if it were a Guy Ritchie flick.
Movie Review: Superb
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the best British (or co-British) crime movie since The Long Good Friday 20 years earlier.
Ray Winston is perfectly cast as ex-con who's trying to retire in Spain. Ben Kingsley is sent over to get him to take on one more job. Kingsley is a revelation. I knew he was a good actor from Schindlers List and Ghandi but this is something completely different. Its one of the best portrayals of a hard-man you'll ever see. The other surprise for me was the performance of Ian McShane who is utterly convincing as the crime boss behind the scenes. Almost as terrifying as kingsley's performance.
The title is really misleading - the main concern here for people buying the film is the language. It is very very strong, and if you have a problem with people swearing a lot this is not a film for you.
A brilliant film.
Movie Review: Why can't they make movies like this in the USA
Summary: 5 Stars
Who needs preening pretty boys and dumb chicks when you can have drama, and suspense, and real dialogue--god forbid. Do the brits know how to make a movie or what? This movie was touted as the best thing out of britain since "Trainspotting" and I'm all for it. I haven't seen ben kingsley this good in anything--and that includes "Hello Ghandi". Playing a schizo hood, with bad intentions works for the holy man. With dialogue so vile it makes you lagh with nervousness. The opening scene is hilarious--a boulder nearly takes out the protagonist while he's sunning himself on the patio. from there it's a rollercoaster ride into the hell that is this great film. loved the graphic cinematography--reminds one of the late sixties and seventies when films were worth going to to the cinema for.Movie Review: Ain't No Fun When the Wabbit's Got the Gun...
Summary: 5 Stars
...and other clever cliches designed to garner positive votes.This is a supremely well done heist cine that has Ben Kingsley delivering a full throttled, no-holds-barred perfomance as a British gangsta trying to get the glamourous living, retired ex-crook Winstone out to do one last job. Winstone has it all--a beautiful, sexy wife, a villa in Spain, good friends and plenty of poolside sun. Why would he want to risk that? Besides, the worst thing about this venture would be the sputtering, nuclear melting, cursing, rabid, rabid, f-word spewing Kingsley. He's the type of guy who knows no level of disgust--even bad guys have a problem with this dude. See how Kingsley tries to convert Winstone to cockroach level. And how sometimes boulders rolling in swimming pools have a purpose, after all.
Movie Review: It Starts With Sizzle and a Big Rock
Summary: 5 Stars
Sexy Beast is a gangster film with 2 hearts at the end of a loaded gun. It sizzles under a Spanish coastal sun and reluctantly goes to colder weather. If you donŐt have enough time to see the wonderful Tarantino film, Jackie Brown, for only 86 minutes you can watch a very good ensemble cast (as if there were such a thing as a bad ensemble cast in the UK) tell a gripping gangster story. Ben Kingsley might be the draw, but the pay off is not only in his powerful performance of a character you really donŐt want coming to stay overnight. There is love he disrupts and tests of loyalty and human frailty. In the course of a couple of days, you find out how Gal, Deedee, Aitch & Jackie have paid their dues. Very few if any movies end in such an interesting way as this does.