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The Limey

1999

Steven Soderbergh

Terence Stamp, Lesley Ann Warren, Peter Fonda, Luis Guzmán ...

6.1

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Thriller Wilson (Terence Stamp), a tough English ex-con, travels to Los Angeles to avenge his daughters death, which he is convinced was not accidental. After meeting Ed (Luis Guzmán), a friend of his daughter’s who sent him a letter informing him of her passing, he finds out about her affair with Terry Valentine (Peter Fonda), a drug-dealing, money-laundering record producer, and begins to hunt him down. Partnered with Ed as well as Elaine ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"A highly enjoyable and offbeat thriller"
		Janet Maslin The New York Times	"Among Soderbergh's widely varied films (...) this one actually has the best chance of becoming anyone's sentimental favorite."
		Scott Tobias AV Club	"'The Limey' is a clever and meaningful homage to fractured late-'60s classics"
		Time Out	"Funny, touching, and effortlessly assured (...) Stamp is superb (...) Lem Dobbs' script is witty (...) Soderbergh's customary playfulness with the narrative deftly underlines Stamp's obsession. A joy"
		Emanuel Levy Variety	"An accomplished piece of filmmaking that overcomes its routine elements.The slim, underdeveloped script by Lem Dobbs (...) promises more than it delivers"
		Desson Thomson The Washington Post	"[In the director's] hands, a simple story of revenge becomes something to unpeel and unpeel again"
		Vikram Murthi IndieWire	"An absolute masterpiece (...) Soderbergh’s collaborative spirit is the foundation of 'The Limey’s' stylish veneer and emotional potency."
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Soderbergh's direction of the film takes the underlying story, which is basic Ross Macdonald, and uses the visuals to add an ironic amusement (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Andrew Collins Empire	"Nice idea on paper, but an uneasy balance between brutal tension and outright comedy on screen (...) A thinly-plotted, overstylised pantomime (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Chuck Bowen Slant	"Soderbergh couldn't have planned for all ['The Limey']'s facets. It was a perfect storm: Wedding technique with intuition and personal taste, he opened up a vortex, fashioning a genre film as art object as ravaged ode of longing"
		James Berardinelli ReelViews	"Stamp has done some wonderful work in a long and varied career. This is not his best film, but it may be the most forceful acting he has ever accomplished (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Marjorie Baumgarten Austin Chronicle	"The work of a fine craftsman and artist (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Charles Taylor Salon	"An art noir that courts pretension but just manages to keep from succumbing to it"

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