Flawless (2007)

One of my all time favorites.

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Its my opinion, any objections are warmly accepted.( No spoilers)The story starts when a young journalist meets a successful old aged woman to learn about her success story. The old lady was the managing director of the World's leading supplier of diamonds. she shows the journalist a diamond pf very high carat, and claims she stole it and goes forth to tell the story, which takes place in 1960.The lead character Laura is a manager of London diamonds who is workaholic in pursuit to gain a promotion, but there is no history a lady has achieved that post. Michael Cane portrays Mr.Hobbs the janitor of the company. Things get interesting when Laura gets an invitation to a movie which she assumes to be a blind date.A loose plot, the writer wanted to plot a brilliant robbery, but with all the modern security systems, he failed to see through them. Makes an excuse and goes back to 60's when security systems are weak and makes the robbery plot. But have to credit the idea, since only man who can see through his own time can make a robbery like that. Then again the writer is ahead of the story's time.

I think that if flawless described one thing in the film, it was Michael Cain's portrayal of the role he played as the clever old janitor with a mission. Demi Moore also immersed herself well into the role of the troubled and betrayed executive, but her acting was let down slightly by the on- off English accent she was supposed to have - at times her speech was a bit slurred. It may sound old fashioned, but maybe some actors should be taking lessons in diction. This is especially true if we have to listen hard to hear them above the often very intense and loud soundtrack that goes with the film. This is what we experienced in spades with Flawless - my hearing is quite good, but I really had to strain to hear and follow the dialogue in this film. The superb performances of all the actors in this film was spoilt terribly by the totally unnecessary loud and invasive soundtrack. I think that Michael Radford should remake this film without his very loud soundtrack - the good reviews would then come flooding in, I'm sure!

The story is so full of holes, it is an insult. Do they really want to let me believe that a huge safe is only protected by three separate dials, so anyone can see or photograph the code while the door is open. How did Mr Hobbs, the janitor, pay his mediator, gun, the bank account and a graveyard full of flowers, when he pays all the ransom out to ms Quinn? Why is ms Quinn interviewed as a leading business lady, when she tells the interviewer that she was always passed leading roles and quit her job when she got the money? Why does ms Quinn say to the interviewer "My contact information is on the back" when the interviewer already had contacted her? I'm glad that downloading is not illegal in the Netherlands. When I payed fore this movie, I would heave been very angry.

This movie was horrible. What "could" have been a decent flick turned into a nonsensical movie that cared much more about getting a leftist "message" to us dumb bumpkins out in fly over country than entertaining us with a decent quality movie.1. Woman are smarter 2. Woman work harder 3. Woman care more 4. Woman getting repressed 5. Fat white guys with cigars are evil 6. Evil Corporations greedily stashing money from the people 7. Robinhood syndrome 8. Making the script fit your Political narrative at every scene. Why did the investigator let her go? Nobody noticed this woman spending a 100m lbs?As bad of hidden leftist dribble as I've ever seen in my life. Time these elitists learn a hard lesson...The Nazi's would be proud of today's Hollyweird...