The Limey
by Steven Soderbergh
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Actor: Barry Newman, Joe Dallesandro, Lesley Ann Warren, Luis Guzm?n, Terence StampDirector: Steven Soderbergh
Brand: LION'S GATE ENTERTAINMENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 89 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-02-20
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Lions Gate
Movie Reviews of The Limey
Movie Review: A Remarkable Film
Summary: 5 Stars
I almost turned the film off at the beginning, disconcerted by its abrupt and seemingly random shifts of time and place. But after I allowed myself to be drawn into the film's world, I enjoyed it immensely. Unlike typical characters in film "thrillers," the players in "The Limey" were understated, seemingly more authentic. Although nothing like "Pulp Fiction," "The Limey's" often offhand dialogue had the same charm. Terrance Stamp's Character, Wilson, although not quite certain where he was going, moved forward relentlessly to uncover the mystery of his daughter's death and achieve satisfaction for his loss. The denouement, while completely unexpected, couldn't have been more perfect.
Summary of The Limey
British ex-con Wilson (Terence Stamp) arrives in Los Angeles to investigate the mystery of his daughter's "accidental" death. His prime suspect, the wealthy, heavily guarded, music promoter Terry Valentine (Peter Fonda), is no easy target. Propelled into an increasingly brutal search for truth, Wilson, with single-mindedness and terrifying precision, moves unstoppably toward revenge.Steven Soderbergh's follow-up to his sexy thriller Out of Sight is an equally stylish but far more austere crime drama, a work of memory that mixes flashbacks, flashforwards, and ruminations on the present into an invigorating cinematic quilt. Terence Stamp is Wilson, an aging cockney criminal fresh out of prison who flies to Los Angeles to search for his daughter's killer. She died in a car wreck, but he suspects that her lover, a music industry mogul named Valentine (Peter Fonda), knows more than he's telling. Wilson is a fish out of water indeed, a cool, cruel London thug on the airy, sun-bright street of L.A., a silver-haired criminal taking on street punks and hit men with the relentless drive of a man possessed. It's like Get Carter channeled through Point Blank, a hard-edged revenge thriller steeped in sorrow and regret, trading the warmth of Out of Sight's romantic heat for a more contemplative remove. Fonda beautifully plays off his cinematic history of 1960s hippies and rebels as a nervous, cowardly millionaire sellout in white cotton peasant shirts and a deep California tan. Luiz Guzman and Lesley Ann Warren costar as Wilson's "adopted" guides through modern L.A., and Barry Newman is excellent as Valentine's tough, terse head of security, another aging pro blindsided by Wilson's relentless single-mindedness. Soderbergh quotes from Ken Loach's 1967 film Poor Cow (sadly not available on video in the U.S.) for Wilson's flashbacks as a fresh-faced teenage thug. --Sean Axmaker
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