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United Kingdom, Luxembourg · 2007
Rated PG-13 · 1h 48m
Director Michael Radford
Starring Demi Moore, Michael Caine, Lambert Wilson, Nathaniel Parker
Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller
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London, 1960. Laura Quinn is the lone female executive at London Diamond Corporation. She is frustrated as her talents are rarely acknowledged. When the night janitor Mr. Hobbs approaches her with a daring but simple plan to steal diamonds from the vault, Laura is intrigued. She agrees to help, but she is soon in over her head...
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.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Bill White
The pleasure of watching such well-crafted entertainment offsets the small disappointments.
Washington Post by 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.
ReelViews by James Berardinelli
As heist films go, Radford has crafted an engaging, if not especially memorable one, with Flawless.
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 But audiences accustomed to more knowing fare are likely to find its twists and turns outdated while yearning for a little of the rebellious fun that made the genre gleam in the first place.
Entertainment Weekly by 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.
TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
Polished but oddly lifeless heist thriller.
Chicago Tribune by 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.
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.
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