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The Limey
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 4011976653219
Format: PAL
Languages: German (Original Language),
Theatrical Release Date: February 01, 2001
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Editorial Review:
Steven Soderbergh's follow-up to his sexy thriller Out of Sight is an equally stylish but far more austere crime drama, a work of memory that mixes flashbacks, flashforwards, and ruminations on the present into an invigorating cinematic quilt. Terence Stamp is Wilson, an aging cockney criminal fresh out of prison who flies to Los Angeles to search for his daughter's killer. She died in a car wreck, but he suspects that her lover, a music industry mogul named Valentine (Peter Fonda), knows more than he's telling. Wilson is a fish out of water indeed, a cool, cruel London thug on the airy, sun-bright street of L.A., a silver-haired criminal taking on street punks and hit men with the relentless drive of a man possessed. It's like Get Carter channeled through Point Blank, a hard-edged revenge thriller steeped in sorrow and regret, trading the warmth of Out of Sight's romantic heat for a more contemplative remove. Fonda beautifully plays off his cinematic history of 1960s hippies and rebels as a nervous, cowardly millionaire sellout in white cotton peasant shirts and a deep California tan. Luiz Guzman and Lesley Ann Warren costar as Wilson's "adopted" guides through modern L.A., and Barry Newman is excellent as Valentine's tough, terse head of security, another aging pro blindsided by Wilson's relentless single-mindedness. Soderbergh quotes from Ken Loach's 1967 film Poor Cow (sadly not available on video in the U.S.) for Wilson's flashbacks as a fresh-faced teenage thug. --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - A hidden masterpiece
After watching "The Limey" I was in awe of what I had beheld. This movie was dynamic and mute simultaneously. The genre of this film is a neo-noir, in other words a modern version of those crime/mysteries films made back in the golden days of cinema. These old school movies were black and white, "noir" is French for "black", hence the term film noir.
A thousand apologies for the deviation on my cinema history lesson, I will return to the review at hand. I have to say that I am on ... Read More
Rating:  - I am in the minority here....
but I just didn't like this movie. I am a fan of Soderburgh..Traffic was a great movie, Erin Brokovich, Out of Sight, etc...but this movie just didn't do a whole lot for me. Honestly the best thing about this movie was the always wonderful Terrence Stamp. Peter Fonda was a joke, and the very underrated Luis Guzman wasn't given enough to do.
I wanted to like this film, but I couldn't. My husband rented this from Netflix after reading an article stating this was one of the top ten movies ... Read More
Rating: - Way Above the Action Flick Level
The Limey is an action movie that transcends the genre because of excellent acting, photography, and direction.
The story has been covered many times by other reviewers. My comment is that the ending is enigmatic, which adds to the movie's appeal. The characters are deftly, but sparsely written and portrayed.
The color combinations, the lighting, and the extensive use of close-ups speak to the quality of the photography. The care that went into the shooting of many scenes ... Read More
Rating: - scattered and unreliable, like memories always are
Terrence Stamp is taking a plane back to England after some dirty business in Los Angeles. While on the plane, he thinks back, not only on what he has just done, but on his life and the choices he has made (and perhaps should have).
His memories are unreliable, as memories will be, and you are left to sort through them.
What some might mistake for continuity errors are actually faulty memories. Characters appear in different clothes, say things differently each time certain scenes are replayed. ... Read More
Rating: - Slightly Overrated
The movie had a unique visual style and was often beautiful to watch, though I found the constant editing, which made for somewhat avant-garde cinematography, kind of jarring and unsettling, even off-putting at times. At other times, I found the concentrated attention required to follow so many sound overlays and picture splices to be almost meditative! Were the story a little more interesting, perhaps I'd have thought more of the technique.
OK, it was something new and deserving of recognition, but ... Read More
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