The Sting Reviews

This award-winning movie will not dissapoint. Memorable performances by both Newman and Redford make this movie an absolute classic.

This film is full of twists and turns that not only make the film enjoyable for just about anyone, they also make the film unforgetable! The frequent red-herrings and alter-egos narrowly miss making the film confusing but only serve to humour and mislead the audience.

A reunion of Robert Redford, Paul Newman and director George Roy Hill (all Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid), all three are legends of their trade and the Sting is no exception.

The film starts out simple enough, Hooker (Robert Redford) takes advice from his dying friend and street con-partner and seeks out Henry Gondorf (Newman) to avenge his death with one last, BIG con and it seems Hooker isnt the only one that is angry about Luther's death...

Classic film

A great story, some comedy moments and good acting too. Twists and turns to keep the viewer guessing so just when you think you know what the sting is, you get stung yourself. Redford, looking not unlike a Brad Pitt for his generation, turns in a good performance but Newman (Clooney?) steals the show. Classic stuff.

TOP MOVIE !!!

Four years after setting box offices ablaze in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and director George Roy Hill reteamed with similar success for The Sting. Redford plays Depression-era confidence trickster Johnny Hooker, whose friend and mentor Luther Coleman (Robert Earl Jones) is murdered by racketeer/gambler Doyle Lonnegan (Robert Shaw). Hoping to avenge Luther's death, Johnny begins planning a 'sting'--an elaborate scam--to destroy Lonnegan. He enlists the aid of 'the greatest con artist of them all,' Henry Gondorff (Paul Newman), who pulls himself out of a drunken stupor and rises to the occasion. Hooker and Gondorff gather together an impressive array of con men, all of whom despise Lonnegan and wish to settle accounts on behalf of Luther. The twists and surprises that follow are too complex to relate in detail: suffice to say that you can't cheat an honest man, and that you shouldn't accept everything at face value. The Sting became one of the biggest hits of the early 1970s: grossing $68,450,000 during its first run, the film also picked up seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Adapted Score for Marvin Hamlisch's unforgettable setting of Scott Joplin's ragtime music.

Great oldie !

Haven't seen this one for a while so got it out again - I wasn't disappointed!

Great acting from all characters and a good story make this an enjoyable film.

The Sting

A real classic, well worth watching again if you saw it years ago, and if you havn't seen it at all, try it!

a classic

What a great film. Take the time to rent and watch this film. It's very very enjoyable.

Wow

I usually never watch old movies, first off that redford looks the same now as he did when making this movie...and the movie itself is very very good...even the cinematics of it are ahead of its time. excellent con man movie!

I had not watched The Sting till the other week! What a film this is, its clever being a con artist film. 'The Hustle' TV series, reminds me so much of this film. Good acting, and it could possibly do with a remake. If not seen, worth renting.

Robert Redford and Paul Newman take up where they left off in 'Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid'. A story of Redford's grifter teaming up with Henry Gondorff (Newman) in order to scam Lonnegan (Robert Shaw), a man who has killed Redford's long time petty confidence-trickster partner. A convoluted & well-constructed plot, it is the cameos (Eileen Brennan, Charles Durning, etc) & near-authentic Chicago '30's atmosphere that round off a splendid romp of a movie. Likeable enough, it would not have been my choice for Best Picture at the Oscars '74 (probably Last Tango in Paris or The Exorcist or Paper Tiger) but definitely up there.

The dvd extras consist of info on director George Roy Hill, Newman, Shaw & Redford. Quite expansive but only in literate form.

One to recommend to those who liked the Newman/Redford teaming!