The Thomas Crown Affair (1999, United States)
Running time: 110 minutes
Language: English
The Thomas Crown Affair 1999 American mystery film review
Eccentric millionaire Thomas Crown, bored with his rich and uneventful life, is looking for the new way to enjoy himself. When he visits the museum, a group of foreigners tries to steal one of the paintings, and Crown has a small contribution in the failure of their plan. Nevertheless, one of the paintings is stolen, and the museum can’t explain how it actually happened. Thomas Crown offers one of many paintings in his private collection to be displayed in place of the stolen one. The insurance investigator begins to suspect Thomas Crown himself of stealing the painting that went missing and begins her far from legal investigation into his affairs. When that fails, she begins a mind-game with Thomas Crown, trying to catch him on some detail that would prove his involvement in the robbery. But Crown has some mind-games of his own...
The remake of the 1968 movie, but with interesting twists added to the original script. Again we have a bored rich businessman looking for some thrill in his life, played brilliantly by Pierce Brosnan, but this time the plot is more complexed and more interesting than in the original. The choice of Rene Russo to play the investigator was questionable, but she did not spoil the movie. Overall, one of the very few examples where the remake is far better than the original.
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Our rating |
7.6 / 10 |
Movie value |
8 / 10 |
Realism factor |
3 / 5 |
Adventure factor |
4 / 5 |
Story complexity |
4 / 5 |
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