The Thomas Crown Affair 1999 by AverageMansReviews

The Thomas Crown Affair 1999 by AverageMansReviews

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Warning: there is flashing effects/colourful effects/electrician/burning/vehicle crash/references to immigration and child abuse

I am happy just to have gotten through it: briefly; we meet this con artist Thomas Crown [Pierce Brosnan:] he walks out with this painting: San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk 1908-1912 and now two NYPD Detectives are on the case alongside Catherine Banning [Rene Russo:] she is an independent that works for the owners of the painting and if she gets it back to them she has a certain percentage of the reward money.

Generally speaking: the framework and pacing of this 114 minutes film is for most parts until the final section of this film roughly incredibly slow, on top of that the background music is loud and annoying and separately or together our lead partnership don't help much either, but I will discuss later on in this content.

Action and art; we have our lead partnership in this glider in the area, this is a good sequence: but at this point of the film I got really bored, so I kept saying something to the effect of natural or green-screen effects when they were being used, yes I am one of those irritating people and if you're wondering it happens a lot in this sequence. But much later on we have this really well executed sequence of events that without giving too much away acquires people to look identical like The Son of Man 1964 [with brief description of the painting: this man is dressed as if he was going to work in an office, he is also wearing a bowler hat and a green apple covering his face:] so we have this location being flooded by individuals similar to this: it is a diversionary tactic

Character developments, performances and comedy; the character developments are versions of what they are meant to be for this crime and capture project so in essence they are what they are, but having said that the consistent characters/performers that we experience the only ones that were positive are as follows; Denis Leary as NYPD Detective Michael McCann and his working partner Frankie Faison as NYPD Detective Paretti: they are working on this case and whenever they are on screen individually or together: the lift the quality of the film; regardless if they are working with someone that is not putting in the same quality of performance and the other is Faye Dunaway as The Psychiatrist: she is the councillor/therapist of Thomas Crown and where the comedy comes into effect in this example is where she indicates that essentially and paraphrasing he is misguided if he thinks he can settle down with basically a female version of him and then laughs. But for me be it the framework or pacing or Brosnan and/or Russo performances were individually or together very dry and lacking any charisma or on-screen presence and together they had no on-screen charisma or spark or anything it was just a whole load of zero really.

This film receives: 3/10, this film is poor; yes it does have some positives to it, that man negatives really dragging this film down to the point where I was just happy to get through it. This film does have some awards accredited to its name such as 3 Winners include but not limited to Blockbuster Entertainment Awards 2000 Blockbuster Entertainment Award favorite Actor - Drama/Romance Pierce Brosnan and Favorite Supporting Actor - Drama/Romance Denis Leary and 2 Nominees from the same award ceremony/event Blockbuster Entertainment Award Favorite Actress - Drama/Romance Rene Russo and finally from Satellite Awards 2000 Golden Satellite Award Best Original Score Bill Conti