The Thomas Crown Affair (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo in Blu-ray Packaging)
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Actor: Ben Gazzara, Denis Leary, Frankie Faison, Pierce BrosnanBrand: Sony
Blu-ray: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: Multiple Formats
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 113 minutes
Blu-ray Release Date: 2010-04-06
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
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Blu-ray Review: Good heist film that suffers on repeat viewings
Summary: 4 Stars
**This is a review of the stand-alone Blu-ray release, not the Blu-ray/DVD combo set**
I love a good heist film, and the heist sequences in this film are certainly fun to watch. Where this film is weakest, however, is during scenes that thrust Rene Russo into the "sexy femme" spotlight.
Former fashion model Russo is a competent but unexceptional actress. Too many of her scenes, in particular her scenes in the police department and in the see-through evening gown, are presented with a rather heavy hand. There might as well have been a big neon sign overhead that read "This is where we focus on Rene's character's sexual aggressiveness and power". Not a hint of subtlety. Very heavy-handed and, as a result, distracting. Those are the weakest scenes in the movie. She is very much objectified, presumably for the sake of having a "hot over-40 woman" angle to "sex up" the movie as a selling point. And if you remember the pre-release marketing for this film, that is EXACTLY what the focus was on.
As a tribute to the original version of TTCA, Faye Dunaway appears in the small and ultimately unimportant role of Thomas Crown's psychiatrist. Dunaway's psychiatrist even mocks and laughs at Crown in one scene, a HUGE no-no in the psychiatric community. All it shows it that her character was thinly written and conceived from the start. Her character serves no real purpose to the story except as an unnecessary framing device and to satisfy some stunt casting.
Believe it or not, the movie's most believable character is the police detective played by Denis Leary.
Much attention was given to the love scenes between Brosnan and Russo's characters. The first one took place largely on a marble floor and marble staircase. It was meant to be hot and sweat-inducing, but all I could think of during that scene was how uncomfortable it must be to engage in that act on cold, hard marble.
I saw the film in the theaters in 1999 and mostly enjoyed it. As I said, I enjoy a good heist flick. But I forgot that the heist itself was just a small part of a much longer film, and that the rest of the film has to have some sustainability to it.
Watching it again in 2010 on the bargain-priced Blu-ray I purchased from a big box store, it was much less enjoyable. When the "will it work or won't it?" question of the heists has already been answered in the first viewing, it shifts a larger load to the rest of the film: is it solidly enough made/written to carry the viewer along for the other parts of the ride? In many instances, no.
And some of the product placement was less-than subtle too. That can often be distracting too.
For the film itself and the fact that the Blu-ray is a bare-bones edition with no extra features (not even the director commentary that is included on the regular DVD), I give it 3 1/2 stars. Director John McTiernan has done better, but he did so with material superior to this.
Description of The Thomas Crown Affair (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo in Blu-ray Packaging)
Thrill-seeking billionaire Thomas Crown (Brosnan) loves nothing more than courting disaster and winning! So when his world becomes too stiflingly safe, he pulls off his boldest stunt ever: stealing a priceless painting in broad daylight from one of Manhattan's most heavily guarded museums. But his post-heist excitement soon pales beside an even greater challenge: Catherine Banning (Russo). A beautiful insurance investigator hired to retrieve the artwork, Catherine's every bit as intelligent, cunning and hungry for adventure as he is. And just when Thomas realizes he's finally met his match, she skillfully leads him into a daring game of cat and mouse that's more intoxicating and dangerous than anything either of them has ever experienced before!Bestsellers in DVD
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