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Thanks for the memories!

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Although he only has 10 months left on his prison sentence, "Raymond J. Cutter" (John Travolta) makes a deal with a drug dealer named "Keegan" (Anson Mount) to bribe a judge in order to get an early release. Of course, Keegan doesn't do things for free and Raymond knows only too well that he will have to make it up to him in some fashion quite soon. Sure enough, the price Keegan demands is that Raymond not only must duplicate a famous painting by Claude Monet but he must also steal the original from the museum and replace it with the copy. Although this is an extremely difficult task Raymond has to accept it if he wants to remain free—and there is an extremely important reason he needs out of prison. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this was a decent film which managed to successfully encompass two different subplots—at least for the most part. Likewise, John Travolta performed in his usual professional manner as did Christopher Plummer (as "Joseph Cutter"). Slightly above average.

A thief works with his father and son to forge a painting by Monet and steal the original. Together, they plan the heist of their lives. The Forger packs 3 really good performances by Christopher Plummer, Tye Sheridan and John Travolta and both the heist sequences and the drama really worked nicely and although it's about a bank heist it still has some emotion since a father is trying to connect with his son again but also his father and that worked really well for me. It's not one of Travolta's best it has problems and certain things could been better but as a whole it's a nice film and not a disappointment as i thought it was going to be.

The Forger is a drab anaemic crime thriller which waste the talents of its actors and has 'made for pay television' written all over it.Travolta is art forger Ray Cutter who cuts a deal with some big shots to leave prison early so he can spend time with his son who has terminal cancer. He helps fulfils his bucket list which includes meeting his drug addicted mother.However for getting released from prison early he has a debt to pay to the gangsters which includes painting a convincing forgery of a Monet painting and switch it with the real one at the Boston museum.All the time Cutter is watched by the police and he reckons that the gangsters will double cross him somehow. Well that must be the explanation why Travolta looks mournful as he spends little time painting Monet's 'Woman with parasol.'Christopher Plummer spikes things up as Ray's con man father willing to help out. The film is maudlin and tension free. Even the museum robbery lacks energy.

A curious mix of family drama and crime thriller that never even begins to threaten to become a good cohesive mix, Philip Martin's The Forger is one of countless other films in years past that has potential yet fails to realise it due to lacklustre acting, scripting and some quite dire direction.Starring the now long time mojo-less John Travolta, The Forger gives the near unrecognisable 70's/80's icon a chance to shine as art loving forger (and proud goatee sporting) Raymond Cutter who just wants to spend some quality time with his dying son Will played by Tree of Life's Tye Sheridan but gets caught up with some mean old baddies who want him to do one last job but Travolta fails to bring anything to the table other than a torrid hairdo and while his interplay with Sheridan can be at times humorous and almost affecting, it doesn't work enough to make up for the Forger's shoddily handled storytelling.Every man, women, child and all those in between love a good heist movie, the tension of the set-up, the plans and the execution can make for white knuckle thrills but the Forger, to its detriment, never bothers to raise so much as a slight pulse and by the films so called finale, you'll be wondering if you've in fact been conned into "one last score" that just doesn't payoff. We could've done with double the dose of planning and making paint and far less meandering father/son relationship drama and for all the films effort to make us care for both Raymond and Will, by the end we frankly couldn't care less about their plight even though the film's final scene shows us just what could've been.Wasting a ripe story, industry vet Christopher Plummer and generally wasting our time with a movie that promises something yet delivers nothing, The Forger is a direct to DVD effort than you can stay well away from and is another nail in the increasingly shut coffin lid that now lays almost perfectly flush over the casket of John Travolta's slowly dying career.1 ½ uneven soul patches out of 5