The Limey

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

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

The real problem with the film, though, is....Other than that, the film is a standard heist movie..... ... Full Review

'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

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

Its stroke-of-genius pairing of two '60s icons aside, "The Limey" is essentially a down-to-earth crime thriller that's cut like an art film. The Limey" tells the story of a rufty-tufty English ex-con (Terence Stamp, more beautiful than ever, in a deeply affecting performance) who shows up in Los Angeles to investigate, and avenge, the death of his daughter. ... Full Review

Spare and elegant, The Limey is no ordinary revenge tale....I'll take an off-beat, morally ambiguous film like this one any day over manipulative, supposedly uplifting feel-good junk.....how Soderbergh shows it to us that makes The Limey so compelling.....it's worth watching in no small part just to enjoy director Steven Soderbergh's ( Erin Brockovich, Out of Sight ) exercise in unconventional storytelling..... ... Full Review

We've been down these mean streets many times before, but in its writing and adroit casting, "The Limey" evokes the lost idealism and dreams of the '60s. What's more, it has a lovely leading lady in the wonderful Lesley Ann Warren, who knows her way around genre as well. ... Full Review

That might have come off pretentious or gratuitous in another film, but Soderbergh is so much the master of this film, and so confident in his imagination, that it's thrilling. We're confused, but then realize that each of the shots was something Stamp fantasized when he entered Fonda's fortresslike house -- each one a violent mini-drama played out in his imagination. ... Full Review

Similarly, The Limey is an apparently simple movie....Though it remains an action flick (with parallels to 1974's Death Wish or 1979's Hardcore ), The Limey is never straightforward..... ... Full Review