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Plunkett & Macleane (1998)
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No one will be neutral about Plunkett & Macleane. Either you go with its notion of cheeky, stylish fun or you want to grab first-time director Jake Scott by the ear and slap him silly. Your inclination may depend on whether you recall his dad Ridley's own directing debut, The Duellists (1977), and savor the correspondences. Dad took a Joseph Conrad tale of the Napoleonic Wars, cast it with the ultra-contemporary Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel, and filmed it with a swoopingly mobile camera. Son Jake has made a feisty period piece about a pair of thieves (Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller) in 1748 London and...
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Plunkett & Macleane Movie Review by Zara (3/11/2007) |
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There are almost as many things wrong with this movie as there are things right with it. It's original in the way that it's been decided to be made, telling an old tale during old times with antiquated language and yet containing current music and a youthful fair. Yet the story itself is old in the way that it parallels...
(complete Plunkett & Macleane review by Zara)
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