The Limey details
| Format: | 18 DVD |
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| Starring: | Peter Fonda, Terence Stamp, Barry Newman, Amelia Heinle, William Lucking, Melissa George, Joe Dallesandro, Lesley Ann Warren, Nicky Katt, Luis Guzman |
| Director: | Steven Soderbergh |
| Genre: | Thriller - Action/Adventure |
| Studio: | FILM 4 |
| Name | Discs | |
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The Limey |
18 Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 25 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 12 May 2008 |
| Main languages: | English |
| Hearing impaired subtitles: | English |
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The idea was good...
By a customer from London, England , 13 Aug 2004[Highly rated reviewer]
but the execution is painful to watch: all that talent and money going to waste.
Terrible acting by Terence Stamp: his accent may convince a Californian but to a Londoner it sounds like a lovey trying to play the hard man. You'll want to laugh but will be too uninterested to bother.
The bad acting is matched by the self-conscious and pretentious approach taken by the director which just further hinders the viewer from engaging with the story and the main character.
Avoid.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(32)Stamp of Genius
By Mosca (20 reviews) from London , 12 Oct 2012Not sure why anyone would give this film a negative review, it's brilliant!
If you've seen Out of Sight (1998) you'll recognise trademark Soderbergh touches - the jump cutting back and forth, quirky dialogue, super music and neat characterization.
There's great use of Poor Cow footage; the young Terence Stamp in his glory. And I think he's genius in this, with his exaggerated C***ney accent befuddling the Americans.
(I had to write C***ney like that because, hilariously, it's flagged in this review as an obscene word).
The Limey is a cool, innovative film...don't be put off by the naysayers, watch it!- Was this review helpful to you?
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One of Soderbergh's best.
By AFM (12 reviews) from UK , 30 May 2012'The Limey' is, in my opinion, perhaps one of director Steven Soderbergh's best films. We follow Wilson (Terence Stamp) as he travels to LA following his release from prison, to find out how his daughter died and why. What follows is an often violent crusade to avenge his daughter.
The performances in this are all stellar as is the writing (for the most part) and the direction. Stamp is very good as the slightly unhinged Wilson as is Peter Fonda playing an older variation on his Easy Rider character. Luis Guizman and Nicky Katt (in a brilliant little role as a hired gun) also stand out. Be warned though that Soderbergh's style is quite jarring to the uninitiated as he employs editing radically and inventively so if you like your films to strictly adhear to established techniques perhaps you should look elsewhere. But anyone remotely interested in Stamp, Soderbergh or crime/revenge films should give this a look.- Was this review helpful to you?
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The power of the edit comes good
By Zamy (552 reviews) from London , 13 May 2011This film failed at the box office on first release, perhaps because American audiences did not warm to an avenging Englishman. The story is routine modern film noir but the script is sparkling and the unusual editing gives the film a stylish gloss. You can also sense committed direction from Soderbergh. The acting is a bit patchy and not all of you will warm to the poker-faced presence that is Terence Stamp. For me it was just fine and I would recommend this film to all noir watchers.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Stylish. Very stylish. Not very substance-ish though
By JayLow (122 reviews) , 12 May 2011Stylish. Very stylish. Made by stylish film-makers. With stylish editing and stylish imagery and stylish locations and stylish actors and stylish dialogue and stylish everything.
Yep, lots of style to this film. Bags of it. Vats of it. And, it just about manages to cover the lack of substance. Because, at the end of the stylish day, this is just a very trite, very formulaic revenge drama. And it has all the things a revenge drama should have - a sleazy villain (booh), a tougher than anyone else on the planet anti-hero (hoorah), henchmen who went to the Stormtrooper school of shooting, and, of course, the thoughtful bitter-sweet ending. Just like Get Carter. Or every Seagal film ever made.
The quality of the production does the job though. Yep, there are a few cringe-worthy cockney rhyming slang moments and I couldn't work out if Terence Stamp was brilliant or awful or both...but...hey...it's so damn stylish.- Was this review helpful to you?
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The Limey
By Emjay69 (327 reviews) from Kidlington, Oxford , 07 Feb 2011Not everyones cup of tea but I sort of enjoyed it. The whole idea and story is a good one but, sorry to say, the production appears to have been done by amateurs who think that we do not really understand such things. I'm trying to remember why I rated it with 4 stars.- Was this review helpful to you?
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