There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

In my opinion, this is Demi Moore's best movie ever. I really wasn't crazy about watching this film, but I needed a compromise to satisfy four different people, all with different tastes. It was a somewhat complex Venn diagram, but this proved a perfect solution and a very pleasant surprise. To begin, this is not really a thriller, but falls perfectly into the crime drama classification. There is no violence or even any significant threat of it throughout the movie (except for one small part where you know Michael Caine isn't really serious--that's as close to a spoiler as I'm going to get). There is also little true action, it's really a drama. If you are under around 45 years old, I have some reservations about recommending this movie, because it will probably seem too slow. It is a throwback to movies from a time gone by, and while I watch and enjoy plenty of modern, R-rated, pulse-pounding productions, I really wish there were a lot more of these kinds of well-made, old-fashioned, good, clean films still being made. Once I was alone again, I decided to make it a long night and watched two very good modern cynical anti-hero type films, and after watching this film earlier, I felt a bit dirty. There might, after all, be something to recommend about some of the old-time values depicted in this movie. Just a thought.

I stumbled across this little known Demi Moore and Michael Caine movie on TV last night, and on the strength of the lead actors, I decided to give it a go. A young reporter Natalie Dormer (from TV's Game Of Thrones) meets an old woman (Demi Moore complete with old age make up) Laura Quinn, to get her story about ........... Moore tells the story of being the lone female executive at London Diamond Corporation. In London in 1960. She is frustrated as her less-experienced male co-workers are promoted ahead of her. She is intrigued, when the mild-mannered night janitor, Mr. Hobbs (Michael Caine) approaches her with a daring but simple plan to steal a handful of diamonds from the vault.Joss Auckland has a supporting role and is as reliable as ever. It is funny, pet hates bother me even when I see it in movies. As I was getting annoyed when Michael Caine was talking away to Moore in a cinema during the movie. But it's hard to be too critical of a movie that gets so much right.It's a good movie, that had a decent amount of tension, The score is a valuable asset to the movie going from quirky to dramatic. Demi Moore remains one of the most talented and beautiful women in movies, and her ladylike sexiness is in rare supply. Any movie becomes better by having her name in it's cast.Given the talent involved, I'm surprised this failed to find an audience as it is more than an above average heist movie.

Demi could act even just a little bit! To be fair, it wasn't totally her fault this time around. I think that her character might have been written by someone in the 1950's who really had no idea what women are/were like. However, her on screen actions would have been better suited to a bit part and not the central female lead of an otherwise wonderful heist movie. My wife says that she figured out where the diamonds went about 15 minutes before I did but in reality I had actually stopped caring about the nature of the heist and was continually shaking my head in disbelief @ the slapstick vocal antics of the dizzy dame in the varying shades of form fitting attire! I could forgive a slip or two from someone in her position due to shock or something but she basically takes out a bullhorn @ every opportunity and shouts major plot points and personal concerns near the people who are supposed to be investigating the crime. Its really unfortunate that a better actress or a better writer for women (or both) couldn't be brought into the project because I think it could almost have lived up to its name then. As is, its still a better watch than a lot of the shiny schlock out there. At least it has the always wonderful Michael Caine!

The story is so full of holes, it is an insult. Do they really want to let me believe that a huge safe is only protected by three separate dials, so anyone can see or photograph the code while the door is open. How did Mr Hobbs, the janitor, pay his mediator, gun, the bank account and a graveyard full of flowers, when he pays all the ransom out to ms Quinn? Why is ms Quinn interviewed as a leading business lady, when she tells the interviewer that she was always passed leading roles and quit her job when she got the money? Why does ms Quinn say to the interviewer "My contact information is on the back" when the interviewer already had contacted her? I'm glad that downloading is not illegal in the Netherlands. When I payed fore this movie, I would heave been very angry.