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The Limey
on DVD (1999)
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| Starring: |
Terence Stamp, Peter Fonda, Luis Guzman, Lesley Ann Warren, Barry Newman, Joe Dallesandro, Nicky Katt, Amelia Heinle, Melissa George, William Lucking |
| Director: |
Steven Soderbergh |
| Studio: |
FILM 4 |
| Run time: |
85 mins |
| Certificate: |
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| User collections: |
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| Genres: |
Drama |
| Languages: |
English |
| Hearing-impaired: |
English |
| Released: |
12/05/2008
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Brief synopsis of The Limey
With THE LIMEY, director Steven Soderbergh has crafted a stylish revenge thriller that also contains a refreshing sense of humor. Wilson (Terence Stamp), a tough English ex-con, travels to Los Angeles to avenge his daughter's death, which he is convinced was not accidental. After meeting Ed (Luis Guzman), 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 (Lesley Ann Warren), his daughter's former voice coach, Wilson encounters a near-fatal beating, is thrown from a building window, survives a dangerous car chase, and battles an army of L.A.'s toughest criminals. Soderbergh's follow-up to the critically beloved OUT OF SIGHT finds him in similar neo-noir waters, but this time he utilizes atypical editing and narrative technique for the film's entirety. In a striking move, he ingeniously incorporates footage of Stamp as a young man in Ken Loach's 1967 film POOR COW for truly realistic flashbacks. As the fuming Wilson--a hell-bent, white-haired avenging angel--Stamp proves, once again, to be a truly magnetic screen presence.
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Radio Times
The past lives of Terence Stamp and Peter Fonda underline and illuminate this Steven Soderbergh thriller. Stamp plays Wilson, an English ex-con out for revenge, and Fonda is Valentine, a millionaire record producer whom Wilson thinks caused the death of his daughter. Stamp is shown as a much younger man in a flashback taken from Ken Loach's Poor Cow (1967), while Fonda is now of an age where he has to hire minders to do his dirty work for him. With its Chandleresque dialogue and machine gun resonance, this requiem for the hard man is in the top flight of gangster movies.
Halliwell's Film Guide
A revenge thriller told in an elliptical manner that does not quite conceal the familiarity and predictability of its story.
Time Out
Funny, touching, and as effortlessly assured, in its own relatively low budget way, as Out of Sight, this consistently...
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