For a moment, you'll feel that this movie is about nothing. But fortunately it isn't.
Here, I preferred Paul Newman's Henry Manning over his Henry Gondorff back in The Sting (1973). True that it seems as ordinary movie, with the word TV written all over it. And true that I thought many times about the irony between the 18 million dollar budget and the 5 and a half million gross! Though, it is a fine entertaining movie, for me, more than that Oscar winning movie of the 1970s.
I liked Linda Fiorentino's both role and performance. She sensitively understood her character not as an old man's lover, but a mentor's pupil. Just notice her eye look whenever she's with Newman; she's hungry for his brilliance and experience.
The thing about this movie is in the last 15 minutes, not with the clever twists, but where the meaning completes clearly. The movie's world centers around dead people (the old folks). Live people but subsist as dead (the married young couple). And one truly live man (the master thief). The whole story is about the journey of these 2 love birds through the vivid world of this thief. And who'd have the ability to stand it and continue living it as it should: daringly and smartly. Because outside this way, you'd be either a cowered or a loser; namely dead anyway. So where is the money? As the last shot tells us: It's where the guts, and the lust for life is.
I believe Newman was one of the best actors who could portray this latent passionate love for life, or precisely being alive. Observe him driving his car at the end chase, Oh My God! This 75 year old man, who was originally famous of riding racing cars, seemed really convincing, mastering his moves as a wild heart of a man.
This is so simple; just a solid heist with a point of view about life. Yes, again and again, the genre movie can carry out messages. So what could be missing? Maybe more good music score. And that's it.
For the fans of the heist movies only, besides (Where the Money Is), 2000 got others such as (Reindeer Games) and (The Opportunists). Before a revival that would come with the whole next decade along with 2001's (Ocean's Eleven).
Here, I preferred Paul Newman's Henry Manning over his Henry Gondorff back in The Sting (1973). True that it seems as ordinary movie, with the word TV written all over it. And true that I thought many times about the irony between the 18 million dollar budget and the 5 and a half million gross! Though, it is a fine entertaining movie, for me, more than that Oscar winning movie of the 1970s.
I liked Linda Fiorentino's both role and performance. She sensitively understood her character not as an old man's lover, but a mentor's pupil. Just notice her eye look whenever she's with Newman; she's hungry for his brilliance and experience.
The thing about this movie is in the last 15 minutes, not with the clever twists, but where the meaning completes clearly. The movie's world centers around dead people (the old folks). Live people but subsist as dead (the married young couple). And one truly live man (the master thief). The whole story is about the journey of these 2 love birds through the vivid world of this thief. And who'd have the ability to stand it and continue living it as it should: daringly and smartly. Because outside this way, you'd be either a cowered or a loser; namely dead anyway. So where is the money? As the last shot tells us: It's where the guts, and the lust for life is.
I believe Newman was one of the best actors who could portray this latent passionate love for life, or precisely being alive. Observe him driving his car at the end chase, Oh My God! This 75 year old man, who was originally famous of riding racing cars, seemed really convincing, mastering his moves as a wild heart of a man.
This is so simple; just a solid heist with a point of view about life. Yes, again and again, the genre movie can carry out messages. So what could be missing? Maybe more good music score. And that's it.
For the fans of the heist movies only, besides (Where the Money Is), 2000 got others such as (Reindeer Games) and (The Opportunists). Before a revival that would come with the whole next decade along with 2001's (Ocean's Eleven).