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- The Limey is little more than a garden-variety fish-out-of-water yarn. It's like Lenny MacLean walked off the set of Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels into the next Tarantino film: nice idea on paper, but an uneasy balance between brutal tension and outright comedy on screen.
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Oct 8, 1999 · Steven Soderbergh's "The Limey" is the story of two older guys who hire their killers, and another who is a do-it-yourselfer. In its quiet and murderous way, it is like the delayed final act of an old movie about drugs, guns and revenge.
92% Tomatometer 87 Reviews 78% Audience Score 10,000+ Ratings The Limey follows Wilson (Terence Stamp), a tough English ex-con who travels to Los Angeles to avenge his daughter's death. Upon ...
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288 Reviews. Hide Spoilers. Sort by: Filter by Rating: 8/10. Artistic and simple. FilmOtaku 21 July 2004. The `revenge story' is a pretty overdone plot device, so when a film comes along that employs this theme and still remains fresh and compelling, it is safe to say that is a truly good film.
Aug 9, 2019 · Such threads are the key ingredients to genre films. Yes, Soderbergh has made big budget Hollywood movies—the “Ocean’s” trilogy, “Magic Mike,” and his one-two Oscar-winning punch of “Erin Brockovich” and “Traffic” from 2000. These types of movies get him back in the good graces of audiences, studios and critics.
Sep 10, 2012 · Film. Time Out says. Funny, touching, and as effortlessly assured, in its own relatively low budget way, as Out of Sight, this consistently imaginative, comic crime movie milks the...
It's a brisk and relentless story, with a killer supporting cast (Lesley Anne Warren, Joe Dallesandro, Nicky Katt and Luis Guzmán!) and an inevitability that you feel in every cut. Truly one of the...
The Limey is a 1999 American crime film directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Lem Dobbs. The film features Terence Stamp, Lesley Ann Warren, Luis Guzmán, Barry Newman, Nicky Katt, and Peter Fonda. [2] The plot concerns an English career criminal (Stamp) who travels to the United States to investigate the recent suspicious death of his ...
