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Its deadpan attitude and traditional plot--thieves heist jewelry and then double-cross one another--are said to hark back to classic film noir.
The tight, clockwork construction of his early masterpiece, the heist drama The Killing , is gloriously in sync--and then bitterly at odds--with the robbery's unraveling.
With its featherweight premise, casually amoral heroes, and exotic locales, it conjures up an era (the '60s and '70s) when twisty, romantic heist pictures were routinely ground out as tax shelters--and sometimes cast with the producers' model girlfriends, so that expensive vacations could be written off, too.
A few critics like this old-fashioned heist flick starring Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones despite its unoriginality: "It works because it is made stylishly, because Connery and Zeta-Jones are enormously attractive actors, and because of the romantic tension between them" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). A slew of critics finds the whole thing a bit off: Connery has 40 years on Zeta-Jones, and the highlight of the film is Zeta-Jones' spandex-clad "demi-soft-core tai chi" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ) as she attempts to evade an optical security system in the process of ripping off a priceless gold mask.
Great reviews for this "cheeky, blackly comic heist picture" (Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ), the debut from British director Guy Ritchie.