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The Limey 15 Oct 99

Smart and crisp - something of a remake of the murder-avenging "Get Carter" from about 1970-ish. The film got all the good stuff from that, and Steven Soderbergh brings all the time-warping tricks he used in "Out of Sight" to the party as well. The mix is refreshing. This film looks like it was made for about eleven bucks -- no studio screwing things up -- and it looks like it was made for the love of filmmaking. Lucky for us, it was also made by people who are really good at it. A

I can remember a time when where we went to the movies was just as important as the movies we went to see .... From the moment moviegoers arrived to buy their tickets, there was a sense of something special, a feeling that to step inside was to enter another time and place. - Gene Kelly