- Release Date: 1999
- Runtime: 89 min
- Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Starring: Terence Stamp, Lesley Ann Warren, Luis Guzmán, Barry Newman ... see all
- Director: Steven Soderbergh
- Plot: An ex-con, fresh out of prison, goes to L.A. to try to learn who murdered his daughter. However, he quickly finds that he is completely out of place with no... Read more
User Reviews
The Englishman
Aug 14, 2006
Joe - yahoo.com
Aug 14, 2006Joe - yahoo.com
This is an above average action drama, since it combines an excellent story with some good action scenes. Both Terrence Stamp and Peter Fonda are top quality actors.... Full review
The Englishman
Aug 14, 2006
jdenham1986 - yahoo.com
Aug 14, 2006jdenham1986 - yahoo.com
This is an above average action drama, since it combines an excellent story with some good action scenes. Both Terrence Stamp and Peter Fonda are top quality actors.... Full review
Decent Low-Key Revenge Story
Feb 25, 2006
ccthemovieman-1 - imdb.com
Feb 25, 2006ccthemovieman-1 - imdb.com
For modern-day revenge movie, this is unusually low-key and pretty good. It's nothing super but it sneaks up on you. It might bore you, but it might not:. It's really hard to say.If you enjoy a character study by an... Full review
Just don't see the charm...
Dec 06, 2004
Kevin - yahoo.com
Dec 06, 2004Kevin - yahoo.com
I guess it's a hollywood standard that men with british accents are naturally good actors (and attractive to the ladies). I just don't see it. This movie's only saving grace is a script with some attitude (even if it's a lousy... Full review
this movie is great
Dec 06, 2004
brandis - yahoo.com
Dec 06, 2004brandis - yahoo.com
the reason why i truly believe this film is great is becasue of the way it is edited and put in a unique way. First you think it is a flash forward.then you find out that it is a flashback. A... Full review
Just don't see the charm...
Dec 06, 2004
Speshal_K - yahoo.com
Dec 06, 2004Speshal_K - yahoo.com
I guess it's a hollywood standard that men with british accents are naturally good actors (and attractive to the ladies). I just don't see it. This movie's only saving grace is a script with some attitude (even if it's a lousy... Full review
this movie is great
Dec 06, 2004
dyrektor84 - yahoo.com
Dec 06, 2004dyrektor84 - yahoo.com
the reason why i truly believe this film is great is becasue of the way it is edited and put in a unique way. First you think it is a flash forward.then you find out that it is a flashback. A... Full review
Great Movie
Dec 06, 2004
Christian R - yahoo.com
Dec 06, 2004Christian R - yahoo.com
It it easy to hate Peter Fonda, you can't help but think he is playing himself. Self-absorbed middle-aged hippy. But then I saw Ulee's Gold and he redeemed himself.... Full review
Great Movie
Dec 06, 2004
crauber1971 - yahoo.com
Dec 06, 2004crauber1971 - yahoo.com
It it easy to hate Peter Fonda, you can't help but think he is playing himself. Self-absorbed middle-aged hippy. But then I saw Ulee's Gold and he redeemed himself.... Full review
Look, if you don't get this movie, just stick to the Hollywood fluff
Sep 16, 2004
dbushik - imdb.com
Sep 16, 2004dbushik - imdb.com
I'm sorry, but I'm really not going a comment on this film so much as comment on some of the other comments I've seen here. People complaining that they couldn't follow the narration or don't understand why the main character... Full review
Critics Reviews
| Jan 29, 2009Urban Cinefile
A fascinating murder mystery with a bravado piece of cinematic cleavage, The Limey is a Steven Soderbergh workshop that's great to watch for the inventiveness and focus he brings to an old genre through new artifice.
The Limey is a straightforward tale enriched by inspired casting and excellent performances from all of its leading players including Luis Guzman, Lesley Anne Warren and Barry Newman as Valentine's sleazy lawyer.
... Full Review
| Aug 17, 2008Urban Cinefile
A fascinating murder mystery with a bravado piece of cinematic cleavage, The Limey is a Steven Soderbergh workshop thats great to watch for the inventiveness and focus he brings to an old genre through new artifice.
The Limey is a straightforward tale enriched by inspired casting and excellent performances from all of its leading players including Luis Guzman, Lesley Anne Warren and Barry Newman as Valentine's sleazy lawyer.
... Full Review
| May 03, 2005Bigpicturebigsound.com, NY
The real problem with the film, though, is....Other than that, the film is a standard heist movie..... ... Full Review
| May 21, 2001ABC, Australia
's fearless, frightening and very very funny, especially in one particlularly perverse scene, where he marches around like a Terminator....is seamless and fitting in a movie preoccupied with memory....great cinema....film is a sublime artform.... ... Full Review
| Oct 29, 2000TotalFilm
Cheered by most critics, avoided by most audiences, and yet still awesome by any standards, The Limey stands out as prime film-making.
Two commentaries, isolated music score, interviews, behind-the-scenes footage, trailer.Though not as rewarding as the Out Of Sight extras-fest, The Limey does offer Soderbergh and writer Lem Dobbs superb commentary, which covers everything from the directors love for New Wave films to why Terence Stamps character would make a great babysitter.
... Full Review
News
Steven Soderbergh 'ponders 'The Limey 2'
digitalspy.co.uk –
2009-07-11
Few remember Steven Soderbergh's 1999 movie The Limey . It was quickly overshadowed by the director's much more heavily touted films which were soon to follow: Erin Brockovich , Traffic , and Ocean's Eleven . ... Full Article
Re: Screenwriters we love
reelviews.net –
2009-05-22
This thread died too young. Although he hasn't many scripts under his belt, I liked everything Lem Dobbs wrote -- The Limey , Dark City (with Alex Proyas and David S. ... Full Article
The Punisher
popmatters.com –
2007-07-01
One fateful day turned Frank Castle's life upside down. When his family was murdered, he funneled all of his anger into a never-ending war on crime. ... Full Article
FILM TIMES SEARCH
newsreview.com –
2001-05-10
Director Steven Soderbergh ( Erin Brockovich , The Limey ) and screenwriter Stephen Gaghan ( Rules of Engagement ) have re-spun the British mini-series Traffik into a bracing look at North America's war against drugs. ... Full Article

The Limey (1999) Trailer
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