In Frank Oz's intelligent heist movie, it's not the final score that counts but the way the game is played. Staying away from all-out action in favour of a slow, methodical build-up to the actual heist itself, Oz gives his all-star cast enough room to light up the screen - and they don't let him down. Nick Wells (Robert De Niro) is an experienced safecracker who's talked into the "dreaded one last job" by his fence (Marlon Brando). There's just one problem - the multimillion dollar score is under guard in Montreal's Customs House and Nick needs the help of a cocky young thief (Edward Norton) to breach the security systems. In ...  Read the complete review

The Score I'm a massive fan of escape movies and a massive fan of bank job and getaway movies. I'm also a massive Edward Norton fan and I used to collect De Niro videos back in the late eighties and early nineties. So there are no prizes for guessing that I loved this movie and the actors in it. I like a movie that has plenty of twists and turns and gets you thinking without trying to be overly clever. I think if a movie allows a viewer to think he has worked it out then they have usually done something right, but it is also nice to have some pleasant surprises. The movie also starred Angela Bassett and will go down in the movie ...  Read the complete review

*Slight digression, kids, but having posted this, I've just read the first paragraph, and realised that the entire thing is just one sentence. I'm not sure if this is an achievement or a mistake, but I thought I would point it out for punctuation connoisseurs everywhere.* Professionalism is a useful term for damning with faint praise - certainly, a thriller which combines perhaps the greatest American screen actor from three distinct generations (Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro, Edward Norton) which does not blow you away has clearly done something badly wrong, but approached with realistic expectations and the clear warning that ‘The Score’ is ...  Read the complete review

The Score is a fairly average crime thriller that left me feeling slightly disappointed mainly because I expected more given that the film starred Edward Norton and Robert De Niro two actors I have a lot of time for. One of the limitations with this film is that to all intents and purposes it is not at all original, the only thing I found to be different was the fact that it was based in Montreal and I could not remember ever seeing a crime thriller based in this city but I'm sure it is not the only one not counting the fact that many films are shot in Canada and portrayed as American cities. The lack of originality is shown by the basic plot which ...  Read the complete review

Brando, De`niro, Norton, a kind of whos who, then now and tomorrow of Stella acting talent finally hook up on the big screen. Although Marlon could have e-mailed his effort as the fence to Jack Keller,(Deniro). No one acts anyone off screen here in this run of the mill crime caper thriller. Bobby really hasn?t had a good film for along time and you were hoping that it was the script, and not the paypacket that bought these guys together. Its strangely set in Montreal Canada, probably for budgetary reasons to pay the stars fees over actual content and plot. Deniro plays the cliched aging cat burglar doing one last big job so he can settle down with his girl ...  Read the complete review