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I would love to write a review for this dvd, if I could play it!

When inserted in the machine, a sign appears "check regional code", the code for Australia is apparently 4, what is the code for the dvd you have sent me and how do I change it, so I can watch the movie.

Thanks


Denis Fyfe

It Takes a Thief - Redux
We are introduced early in this movie to someone whole steals a valuable Rembrandt Van Rijn painting. We do not see this person because the person is wearing a mask. Insurance investigator Virginia Baker (Catherine Zeta-Jones) tells her boss that she thinks Robert "Mac" MacDougal (Sean Connery) stole the painting. Her boss tells her that she has blamed MacDougal for half the thefts committed for a period of time I no longer recall. The beginning of this movie sounds very similar to "The Thomas Crown Affair." Fear not, this movie has more twists than that movie, to which is bears only a few similarities. This movie is much more like "It Takes a Thief," though you may not realize how much until you reach the end.

Baker begins following Mac around, ostensibly to find some clue as to where the Rembrandt painting might be. However, we soon learn that Baker has something much bigger in mind. Things become even more interesting when Baker reveals to Mac that she stole the Rembrandt, and she used a clever, non-obvious way of getting the painting out of the building. Soon we learn that there is even more to the theft of the Rembrandt. I know I was surprised.

What happens next is a sort of competition, where we see Baker and Mac continuing to try to outdo each other. If you are not paying attention it is easy to get lost in who is doing what and when they are doing it; thus the advantage of DVDs where you can keep stepping back a chapter or so to try and digest the complexity of this movie. Eventually the plot reveals that Baker has a plan to steal a huge (billions) sum of money by breaking into a computer. The plan involves very fine timing that has to coincide with the millennium (of course, otherwise there would be no sense of urgency).

Once things get set into motion the movie moves forward briskly. There is getting into the building, the timing of breaking into the computer, and the nasty mistake that sends dozens of people chasing after them. It is all good fun up until someone gets caught.

This movie tends to get polarized reviews. I think mostly it is about your expectations. If you like Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones, and try to avoid analyzing action movies very much, then you would probably like this movie. On the other hand, if you do not care for either actor, or you spend too much time realizing that there are a number of continuity problems and implausibilities sprinkled throughout the movie, you will likely be too focused on those and disappointed that the director was hoping you would like his cleverness in spite of the fact that much of the plot was impossible.

In balance, I should note that Christopher Young received a BMI Film Music Award in 2000 for this movie. Catherine Zeta-Jones won a Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Actress - Action. Both Catherine Zeta-Jones and Sean Connery won European Film Awards Audience Awards for Best Actress and Best Actor. In addition, Ving Rhames was nominated for the Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Supporting Actor - Action, and the Motion Picture Sound Editors of USA nominated the movie for a Golden Reel Award for Best Sound Editing for a Foreign Feature. To keep things in perspective, Catherine Zeta-Jones was also nominated for the Razzie Award for Worst Actress and Zeta-Jones and Connery were nominated for the Razzie Award for Worst Couple.

As for me, once I realized that the movie had too many implausible situations, I just enjoyed the plot and tried to figure out what was what. I also must point out that I have liked Connery in nearly every movie he has starred in. He has a lot of charisma. I also like Zeta-Jones, though she has much less talent than Connery.

I must admit that the ending puzzles me just a little. It seems to me that there came a point where the director made something happen, and ignored the trivial problem that what he did was impossible. I think he was hoping that people would like the end of the movie so much that they would not notice the problem. Unfortunately, nearly everyone noticed. Fortunately for the director, many people did not care.


Sean is the best actor of the lot!
I admit the first time I saw this I wasn't impressed, but I just saw it again a few nights ago and really enjoyed it. I have always admired Sean's skill and presence...What's interesting and a little iffy is that he plays a "likeable bad guy". His appeal is present in force but I think they could have casted the female lead much better, Jones is no where near the caliber Sean is. I don't like the Bond films...even the ones with Sean, because they are SO predictable and flimsy. Now, usually I like a story with depth and backstory which this one simply doesn't have. Nonetheless, it is enjoyable all the same.

I admire that there is no sex scene (I plain don't like them; but that's not to say that Sean has lost his sex appeal, he hasn't! And please give the guy a break about his age and the fact that he's slowin' down a bit...I think anyone of his age would.)

Overall he's still got it. *A 22-year-old Sean fan*

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