Evengyny Thanks for the memories!

Colibel Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Pluskylang Great Film overall

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

npassage 'haven't seen this film in years, what a treat to run across it in prime. Terence Stamp at his best, trying to undo the past with his daughter. Of course it's impossible, but it's a magnificent try. Solderbergh at his workmanlike best. The films moves along oh so beautifully,a treat in every way. The supporting cast is great, Guzman has what is probably his best role. The first time you see him, his face is magnificent, a full screen shot that blows your mind. Lesly Anne Warren, wow. I'm fixing a vegetarian omelet and then settling down to see an old friend, it's going to be great, you've just got to watch this.

gretz-569-323863 I wrote my summary line after reading reviews from people who hated this movie. I guess if you can only appreciate slam-bang zombie apocalypses then you might be bored by "The Limey," but most grownups will probably enjoy it. (Don't get me wrong, I like zombie apocalypses too, just not all the time.)Others have already talked about the plot, which I found believable enough for a movie. The super-hot Terence Stamp plays Wilson perfectly, and I loved how the director used Stamp's performance in "Poor Cow" as a "frontstory" for his relationship with his daughter Jenny, played, only in photos, by Melissa George.The rest of the cast is also pretty good, including Adhara, Terry Valentine's nymphet girlfriend, a young Denise Richards lookalike named Amelia Heinle who seems as if she might be able to act were she not always either in a pool or a bathtub. Peter Fonda was eerily creepy as an amoral record producer whose main attraction is his money. (In one of the movie's best lines, Adhara says to him: "You're not specific enough to be a person. You're more like--a vibe." So true.)A special shout-out to Nicky Katt, who--no pun intended--killed it as a hapless hit-man. A small part, but one of the little joys of the movie.Another joy: Terry Valentine's two gorgeous houses, one in LA with a pool cantilevered over an open canyon, and one at Big Sur. if I'm reading the box office right, the budget for this movie was $9 million, but it only grossed about $4 million. Truly sad if so.

davidklun The first time I saw this movie, I hated it. Then, 10 years later, I gave it another try when I saw that Soderbergh was the director. I'm really glad I did.Some of the scenes are hard to believe. Like the warehouse scene. Why would he walk into that so unprepared? In the real world, they would have just killed him, but then the movie would have only been 20 minutes long. This was the scene that caused me to hate the movie when I first saw it. But this time I overlooked it.What moved me on the second watching was the subtlety and the sadness in the movie. You feel the sadness of him not being able to be with his daughter as she grew up. As for Peter Fonda, he's just annoying. The way he's cleaning his teeth with the toothpick, and the annoying conversations he has with his girlfriend are pathetic and painful to watch. But maybe thats the point. Also, the two pool-playing hit men are annoying and Soderbergh attempts to make them interesting is a little over-elaborate. Like the scene where the one guy is talking to trash about all the actors and extras as he watches the movie set.But the scene with the DEA agent at the end accidentally slipping the file to Wilson was an interesting scene. Wilson's whole speech there was pretty interesting when he tells the DEA agent - I think we're after the same thing. But again, a little hard to believe that the DEA agent is just gonna let him go after Fonda. Like they wouldn't have shown a picture of Wilson to the witness from the warehouse shooting. At which point, the witness would ID Wilson, and Wilson gets arrested. But no, the DEA is gonna let him go after Fonda, and then after all the dead bodies pile up at Big Sur, they're gonna let him fly out of the country. Yeah right. Again, pretty hard to believe.So, while I think this is a flawed movie from a plot believability standpoint, it still has many interesting and poignant scenes, and I was able to overlook the flaws because I was entertained and riveted throughout the movie.

Theo Robertson Not a very groundbreaking premise is it? An ex con going out to avenge a relative who's been murdered, sounds just GET CARTER does it not ? It sure does and the worst thing about THE LIMEY is it resembles the disappointing remake of GET CARTER . Actually it's worse than that because while that film was a straightforward MTV influenced movie this one is more like MTV on acid - without MTV It's obvious Soderbergh is aware that he has a very very worn premise for a film but this arty approach becomes very very tiresome very very quickly. In fact it becomes more than merely very very tiresome it becomes very very irritating as we cut - back - and - forth - between scenes - again - and - again like - this . it's not clever and it becomes very very distracting along with other very formalist aspects of film making as out of synch voice over etc . It's not clever and it's just not on Guv One can see Soderberg is trying to make something a million miles away from the mainstream as if he's got an agenda to reboot tried and tested narrative formula with experimental visuals in much the same way as French New Wave did , but this agenda gets in the way of the storytelling and ultimately sinks the movie