No crown for this film (The Thomas Crown Affair [1999] (DVD))

Member Name: sympatic

Product:	The Thomas Crown Affair [1999] (DVD)
Date:	08/11/09 (13 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Som good action scenes

Disadvantages: Bland

Pierce Brosnan stars in this thriller as Thomas Crown a billionaire financier who is not satisfied by his huge wealth and comfortable life and seeks thrills in a different way which includes stealing items as he enjoys the challenge of defeating the secirity systems in place and the thrill of not getting caught.

The film opens wth his putting together a team to help him steal a painting in broad daylight from a museum,he uses the team as a distraction to botch th attempt while he takes advantage of he chaos to steal the painting and then hang it in his own home. However he has not got clean away as an insurance inspector called Catherine Branning and played by Renee Russo begins to suspect the charismatic billionnaire and the two eneter into a game of cat and mouse both over the painting and whether he can lure her into his bed.

Brosnan cn easily carry off the rich and handsome role that he is asked to play, after all he was James Bond, and he is comfortable in the role and plays it more than adequately. Russo is also competent in the female lead however neither character really managed to set the screen alight.

For me there was something tepid and lacking in the whole film, it is a competent enough crime thriller but nothing more, it lacks the style and banter that you get in films like The Italian Job (the original not the remake) and in the end it was a rather bland film to watch.

Thereare a couple of plot twists that help hold your attention but there was no real chemistry between the two leads which serves to highlight perhaps Bosnan acting abilities more than Russo.

A stylish enough film but also rather average and hence I would give it three stars.

Summary: Crime thriller