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- Critical reception of The Limey was largely positive, with the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reporting 92% of critics gave the film a positive review, based on 84 reviews, with an average rating of 7.4. The review aggregator Metacritic reported an average rating of 73 out of 100.
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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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- Steven Soderbergh
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- Terence Stamp
Aug 9, 2019 · “The Limey” is the point when Soderbergh confidently admitted his comfort zone is the genre film. Within that structure, he could push new ways of storytelling. The learning curve part of his career now in his rearview, he knew how to make smaller movies more efficiently and on the cheap.
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. Steven Soderbergh's `The Limey' is able to do just that.
The plot concerns an English career criminal (Stamp) who travels to the United States to investigate the recent suspicious death of his daughter. It was filmed on location in Los Angeles and Big Sur . Critical reception was positive, but the film was not a financial success upon release.
- $10 million
- Cliff Martinez
- May 15, 1999 (Cannes Film Festival), October 8, 1999 (United States)
Oct 8, 2019 · I’m In Your Manor Now. It's easy, deceptively so, to look at The Limey as another aberration on Soderbergh's C.V. It was a low-budget ($10 million) crime drama, with an even lower box-office ...
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...
