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Flawless | 
 enlarge | Director: Michael Radford
Studio: Magnolia
Category: Movie
Buy New: $0.99
Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 31
Genre: Art House
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: Video On Demand
Running Time: 109 Minutes
ASIN: B001CWCU4Y
Release Date: November 20, 2008 (New: This Week)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 Flawless is right! May 14, 2008
Jenny Smith (San Diego, CA USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Being a big Micheal Caine fan, it is no surprise that I enjoyed this film. Brilliant performances by all and an all around great film. I highly recommend this film to all!
Flawless is flawless August 3, 2008
Wendy Wells (California, United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a clever, engaging story, beautifully portrayed by Demi Moore and Michael Caine. It's a movie about a diamond heist that doesn't rely on car chases or explosions.
a movie that is... flawless June 9, 2008
Francesca Jourdan (Montreal, Canada)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
London 1960s. Even after years of faithful employment and an expertise acquired over the years, Laura Quinn (Demi Moore) is denied promotion after promotion. By pure chance, the nighttime janitor, Hobbs (Michael Caine), makes her an offer she won't be able to refuse. But his plan will go further than expected.
Demi Moore looks her age, and plays the part convincingly. Michael Caine is at his best, he is the perfect man to reassure Moore's character, and is also convincing. The supporting actors were absolute gems and gave wonderful performances - even Lambert Wilson!
The directing was perfect; the cinematography and costumes brilliantly done; and the script, simply amazing.
This film shows exactly the problem with women in society - modern society as we know it today. (Did you know that women are paid 15% less than men, for the same job, no matter their expertise? This hasn't changed since the 1960s ... but I digress.)
Simply put, this is one of the greatest thrillers I've seen in a long, long time.
 Diamonds don't cut glass ceilings March 10, 2008
Amanda Richards (Georgetown, Guyana)
13 out of 16 found this review helpful
Set in the sixties, except for the first and last bits, this is the story of Laura Quinn (Demi Moore), a female executive of the London Diamond Corporation who gets repeatedly passed over for the management position that she feels she richly deserves.
First person in to the office, and last out at night, she gets more and more frustrated, lonely and depressed, until Mr. Hobbs the janitor (Sir Michael Caine) makes her an offer she can't afford to refuse.
She soon finds out that there's a lot more to Hobbs than she'd imagined, and a lot less diamonds in the vault than she thought there would be.
This is a reasonably good movie, well acted by Moore, Caine and Lambert Wilson (the Merovingian guy from the Matrix movies), except for a couple of things.
1.The heist itself isn't the most thrilling (or inventive) you've seen
2.The modern day intro and closing scenes detract from the movie
Short Attention Span Summary (SASS)
1.`60s hairstyles and clothes add ten years to an actress
2.Women who work with glass ceilings shouldn't drop stones
3.Diamonds are forever, but employment isn't
4.Janitors really know how to clean up
Rated: 3.5 stars
Amanda Richards, March 9, 2008
Excellent! February 16, 2008
Review Lover (At a place...)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
"Flawless" stars Demi Moore as Laura Quinn, a high-up executive in the incredibly powerful London Diamond Corporation. When dedicated, brilliant Laura is once again passed over for promotion by her chauvanistic employers, crooked handyman Mr. Hobbs (Michael Caine) inducts her into his plan to steal millions of pounds worth of uncut diamonds from the seemingly-impregnable company.
With achingly beautiful, tense direction supplied by the highly talented Michael Radford ("The Merchant of Venice", "1984"), "Flawless" is more than a worthwhile thriller/heist movie: it's a brilliant showcase of Moore's talents as a serious actress, and the chemistry between Laura and the enigmatic Mr. Hobbs (Michael Caine, himself on fine form) is palpable and rewarding. A solid supporting cast is made stronger by the presences of Joss Ackland as Laura's intractable C.E.O., and Simon Day as sympathetic detective Boland, both men underpinning the very strong performances given by Moore and Caine, and not allowing "Flawless" to become a mere Star Vehicle for either one. But if Caine is great (and, as usual, he's really great), then Moore is truly outstanding: her flinty, cool reading of Laura Quinn is perfectly pitched, and here's hoping that Moore will be cast in more movies of this caliber from now on.
The 1960s backdrop, with its technological redundancies, could have, in the hands of a lesser director, become a kind of whimsical playground, but it's a testament to Radford's skill that the tension in "Flawless" never lets up: sure, the televisions, safes and security cameras look sixty years old, but thanks to Radford's camerawork, every scene in "Flawless" sparkles with its own dramatic, dynamic brilliance.
My only issue with "Flawless" is the frankly stupid opening-and-closing scenes: Demi Moore in a rubber Old Lady Mask throwing a redundant Women's Lib motto in the audience's collective face. The entire premise of "Flawless" is founded on the idea of women taking charge of their own independence, and while in the 1960s timeline this works beautifully, the contemporary scenes of Laura retelling her tale to an irritating young journalist are very jarring - in terms of directorial skill and acting quality, they don't measure up to the main bulk of the picture.
Still, that notwithstanding, "Flawless" is overall an excellent movie: highly entertaining, it's a sleek and polished blockbuster with excellent central performances and some brilliant direction. Highly recommended.
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