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Flawless

Mixed or average reviews
Based on 21 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Crime | Drama
Written by: Edward Anderson
Directed by: Michael Radford
Release Date:
Theatrical: March 28, 2008
DVD: June 3, 2008
Running Time: 100 minutes, Color
Origin: UK
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for brief strong language
Starring Michael Caine, and Demi Moore
Flawless is a clever diamond-heist thriller set in swinging 1960s London. Demi Moore plays Laura Quinn, a bright, driven, and beautiful executive at the London Diamond Corporation who finds herself frustrated by a glass ceiling after years of faithful employment, as man after man is promoted ahead of her despite her greater experience. Michael Caine is Hobbs, the nighttime janitor at London Diamond who is virtually invisible to the executives who work there, but over the years has amassed a startling amount of knowledge about how the company runs. Hobbs has his own bone to pick with London Diamond and, observing Laura's frustration, convinces her to help him execute an ingenious plan to steal a hefty sum in diamonds. But unbeknownst to Laura, Hobbs plans go even further than he's let on, and together they set in motion a thrilling heist of dizzying proportions, the likes of which London has never seen. (Magnolia)
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What The Critics Said
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ReelViews James Berardinelli
As heist films go, Radford has crafted an engaging, if not especially memorable one, with Flawless.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Bill White
The pleasure of watching such well-crafted entertainment offsets the small disappointments.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Joe Neumaier
In the diamond-heist thriller Flawless, there aren't a lot of diamonds, heists or thrills. But there is a nice sense of style, and appreciation for tense face-to-face confrontations among characters trying to ignore the temptations around them.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
Flawless is a fictional tale, but something in director Michael Radford's conscientious, methodical presentation gives it the feeling of true history.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Ty Burr
It's assured and neatly crafted - the time zips by while you're watching it.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer
Caine is reason enough to see any movie. He gives this clever, somewhat lumbering caper movie a deep-seated soul.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy
A modest little caper film that satisfies chiefly because of its relative familiarity and lack of ambition.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Desson Thomson
The joy of this movie, which features Joss Ackland as a memorably intimidating, Afrikaner-accented boss, is in the gradual revelation of intrigue.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Rick Kisonak
Over all though, this is a first rate caper piece elevated by Caine’s effortlessly elegant portrayal. The movie is wall to wall with pompous, sexist, greedy backstabbers and it’s a hoot to watch Hobbs mop the floor with the lot of them.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
The filmmakers' narrative device of framing Quinn's tale as a feature-length flashback doesn't pay off - we get a goody-two-shoes moral lesson at the end, and a look at movie studio aging makeup gone wild.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
I enjoyed seeing Joss Ackland as well. The veteran character actor with the world’s lowest voice plays the diamond company chairman, and when he rumbles out orders, it’s like Sensurround never left us.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
The heist in Flawless comes at the film's midpoint, but although Radford wrings some nice suspense from the sequence, the theft isn't his primary focus here. It's what happens next.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Gregory Valens
Not the freshest heist movie ever made, Flawless still has a few pleasures to offer, thanks to a well-studied social and political background and to Michael Caine's lovely creation.
Read Full Review >Variety Jonathan Holland
As neatly tailored, clean-cut, and visually appealing as a Savile Row suit. But audiences accustomed to more knowing fare are likely to find its twists and turns outdated while yearning for a little of the rebellious fun that made the genre gleam in the first place.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin
Moore hasn't tackled a lead role since the turn of the century, and judging by her eminently forgettable work here, she hasn't spent that time painstakingly honing her chops.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
It's left to Caine to wink and nod at his own contribution to real caper classics of the 1960s and '70s, produced with more emphasis on fun and less on instructive fact-finding.
Read Full Review >Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
Flawless never begins to live up to its title.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
The plot contortions that very slowly unfold under Michael Radford's arthritic direction in Flawless are not much more entertaining.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Scott Foundas
Flawless is the sort of movie that tends to get called "enjoyably old-fashioned," except that there's nothing enjoyable about it. The pacing is torpid, the plotting slack, and the performances utterly joyless--chiefly Moore, who walks through every scene with her face stretched into an expressionless mask, her lips pressed into a permanent pout.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 7.1 (out of 10) based on 6 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Bob E. gave it an8:
A gem. Flawless is a heist movie where the motives are more complicated than the usual "it's all about the money." The very human thieves, Moore and Caine, have believable human reasons for doing it. And they sweat bullets in the process. When they pull it off you're more thrilled than you are usually with these capers - where the motives of the thieves are the same as that of nine-year-old shoplifters; to get away with it, (by being oh-so clever) and to have the toys thus purloined. Revenge, such as powered the gang in The Italian Job, is juicier than greed. The English TV series Hustle is fun because the charming characters only work their scams on those who richly deserve to be taken. Caine, the old pro, has created a marvelous character in Hobbs the janitor here. See Flawless and you won't come away feeling ripped-off.
