Sexylocher Masterful Movie

ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Delight Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

edumacated I'll admit this film is amusing at times, but it cheapens the real story.watch "the general", an Irish film with a real Irish cast about a real Irish villain. the true story is filled with irony, and the lead actor is far better than the ersatz spacey. and just for poops and grins, if you want to see how a real actor plays different roles across different times and places then try to find the works of: Javier Bardem--the actor who played the looney in "no country for old men".but since you mention spacey, we are talking about a one trick pony, who has been hyped throughout his career, maybe because he was sleeping with the right producers, but sex aside, he plays the same smarmy character in every film. he has about as much range as a pop gun.now you may be asking, why Ireland in 2000? well the answer is simple. this was the period when spacey had retired to London for two reasons: the first is that he had found some Brits to bankroll him in a disastrous theater expedition; the second being he had worn out most of the l.a. and n.y. boy toys. his English backdoor escapades quickly became common fodder for the fleet street tabloids.i have often wondered why spacey was so popular in the u.s., and i realized that it all goes back to the Greek saying: eat sh*t--a million flies can't be wrong. that logic being for the peasant majority, if entertainment tonight says an actor is hot--then he is hot.

msbull I was really looking forward to watching this film. It had all the ingredients of a great tongue in cheeker, but it just didn't come together AT ALL. Kevin Spacey's accent was tolerable except that sometimes he forgot to use it and I would rather NOT have had to listen to Linda Fiorentino's pale attempt. She and Helen Baxendale were totally lacking in charm and personality, thankfully their screen kids had loads, so you could find at least some members of his 2 families endearing. You could have strained spaghetti with the plot and I'm sure that the script was written by some adolescent schoolboy in a high school English competition. That said, when I wasn't cringing, I was smirking so it wasn't a totally wasted 90 minutes. I did find the superimposing of Kevin's face on the painting very clever and quite funny. Maybe I'm being a bit harsh but I was expecting a bit of quality viewing and it just never came.

stimpil I'm pretty sure that this movie is a public service message begging all criminals in the world to move to Ireland. According to the movie, the police in Dublin are by far the stupidest people to be found outside of an Anna Nicole Smith fan club.Micheal Lynch (Kevin Spacey) is the title ordinary decent criminal. He plans and commits lots of robberies, breaks his associates' hands, and has people killed, but you're supposed to like him because, well, he's played by Kevin Spacey and it is inhuman not to sympathize with any character played by Spacey (except maybe in Se7en, but c'mon, you thought the fat guy had it coming, too). Further, he doesn't seem to be a Mormon, but he seemingly has two wives, Christine (Linda Fiorentino) and Lisa (Helen Baxendale). He commits lots of crimes, which drives the unbelievably inept police crazy, goes up against the IRA, which really pisses them off, and steals a priceless painting (well, not so priceless, the value is repeatedly quoted as 30,000,000 of some odd money measurement), which nobody really seems to care too much about.I could go into great detail about this movie, but it's really not worth my time. The acting is not bad, the directing is adequate, but the script has plot holes that you could drive space shuttles through. The police repeatedly fall for the "it's not me, but someone with my build and height wearing a mask" trick throughout the movie. At the end, when they believe they've killed Lynch, the police just assume that the unidentifiable body is his. Don't they have dental records in Ireland? Can't anybody at least check his blood type? Obviously, no. They just assume that everything is resolved. They could drastically improve their competency if they hired a team of third graders to point out the obvious idiocies they commit.This was the longest 94 minute movie I've ever seen.

tomimt Who doesn't like witty, lovable criminals, who out wit every copper and other rival criminals in a heartbeat? That's a crime movie genre, which actually appeals to me: smart dialogs, funny action and so on.So, in "Ordinary Decent Criminal" we have one of the greatest living actors, Kevin Spacey, who is playing Irish mobster named Michael Lynch, and he's just such a fellow I described. There's also Colin Farrell in a small role as one of the thugs in Michael's gang. Actually rather good acting all around from all of the actors and that's the only reason this movie stays afloat, because the script is not that funny as it tries to be.Sure, it has couple of good laughs in it, but most of the jokes feel little forced.Direction is pretty decent, not worst thing ever directed, but certainly not the greatest crime movie either.Good for couple of laughs.