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In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

Synopsis: A Bored billionaire decides to entertain himself by stealing a Monet from a museum, an investigator from the museum's insurance company takes an interest in him and a complicated back-and-forth game with romantic undertones begins between them.Review: I just finished streaming this film on Netflix for the first time, and the title of my review says it all. This remake is boring, it has poor-pacing, and the overall story is just drab and stale. This romantic heist drama or whatever it's supposed to be is an hour and forty minutes too long. I did not enjoy this movie, the first 25 minutes or so is the only halfway decent part, the rest of the film is just plain awful. This cine has a rubbish plot, i have not seen the original, and after seeing this remake i don't want to see the original, hopefully the upcoming second remake will be better than this 90s version, but i doubt it.

Gross: $124 million Cost: $48 million (remember when million dollar movies were exceptional)--inflation.Slickly produced expensive "Roger Moore" style heist film. It was not meant to be taken too seriously--some reviewers complain about holes in the plot--this movie is meant to be a lighthearted romantic comedy.Features an upbeat prettified New York of the rich and famous while also appealing to our antisocial natures.The only part that I could have done without were the sex scenes...both Pierce Bronson at 47 and Russo at 45 were a little too long in the tooth for torpid insatiable sex on marble stairs etc....especially Pierce looked a little saggy with out a shirt on. Ditto the true love angle at this age is unbelievable but is part of the formula. Bronson looked like he needed a few hits of amphetamines and viagra a couple times to keep up his manic behavior...The only part I didn't care for was the ending at the museum with a dozen men with bowler hats somehow confusing a large contingent of the NYPD. Too dumb.Still flawlessly filmed well acted but expensive formula star stuff..a 7 ...I am a tough but consistent grader.... 6 is boiler plate (but decent)...say a Jacqueline Suzanne novel...7 a cut above....I like sleepers and surprises. Also try to grade in context....8 is very very good...10 still looking...Russo is definitely the better half of the duo quite funny. But Bronson was OK.Recommend

Rene Russo and Pierce Brosnan play the Faye Dunaway and Steve McQueen characters in the original. Whilst this version is obviously more modern, slicker, more colourful and less implausible, it lacks some of the gentle class of the original. Russo plays the insurance investigator as a hard-nosed woman, who will do anything. She seems more of a loose cannon and less together that her 60s counterpart. However, that perhaps makes her more believable, and her investigation has certainly fewer plot holes and more actual procedural parts. Pierce Brosnan is good in this role; but plays Crown rather smarmy and cheesy, rather than cool like Steve McQueen. I'll admit I don't much like him as an actor, particularly, but this has him as role I think he seems to suit. The film production is excellent, it's an attractive, slick looking film and it plays out less like "rich people montages" as the original does but there is an element of that. The characters have some depth both explicit and suggested and I like the excitement from the few twists so there is a little suspense. I've had trouble reviewing both these films so suggest viewers watch both and compare and contrast but both stand alone as entertaining examples of the heist genre.

I should probably start my review for the 1999 version of "The Thomas Crown Affair" by confessing that I didn't see the original 1968 version starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway. I mention this for the sake of informing my readers that no comparisons between the remake and the original will be made here, even though I do know that another version exists. With that being said, I honestly think that while the 1999 version of "The Thomas Crown Affair", starring Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo, does offer two hours of pure escapism to the audience, it suffers significantly from the fact that it is straight up forgettable. In "The Thomas Crown Affair", we follow a wealthy businessman by the name of Thomas Crown (Pierce Brosnan) who feels bored and is looking for a little challenge in his life whether it would be betting on a golf putt or racing on a catamaran. One day, he constructs a heist to steal a highly valuable painting from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Enter investigator Catherine Banning (Rene Russo) and Detective Michael McCann (Denis Leary) to try and solve his crime. When Catherine catches on quickly that Mr. Crown committed the crime, a game of cat-and-mouse ensues between the two as they fall in love with each other. Now, she must decide whether to turn him in or become his wife. As you can tell, this is the kind of fluffy plot that a great director like Alfred Hitchcock would have had the pleasure of handling. Amongst the positive aspects of this picture, I liked the heist at the beginning of the film in terms of its execution and the way it unraveled itself. I thought Rene Russo in general was physically attractive in this picture, and the performances from Pierce Brosnan and Denis Leary are alright. Aside from that, there really isn't much to talk about with a film like this. It just basically does what it was created to do and that's pretty much it. Because this film is so fluffy and mechanical, it offers very little that would be memorable a week from when it was last watched. Basically, about 90% of this picture has been erased from my memory it leaves so little an impact. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy fluffy entertainment as much as the next fellow. All I'm saying is that if you're going to make quality Saturday matinée entertainment, don't be afraid to do your best at making it a memorable enough experience. Give me quality storytelling that's focused and always engrossing, give me an interesting romance that feels real, and make sure the characters actually contribute to the main plot. Instead, this film provides us with a story that has decent potential at the beginning, but then slowly goes downhill as it progresses. I didn't think the chemistry between Brosnan and Russo was that great since I thought they felt too routine and familiar. Additionally, I felt that I didn't really get to know about any of the characters save for Denis Leary's, who does have a good bit at the end about what he really thinks of his current occupation. That's Faye Dunaway as Thomas Crown's psychiatrist, and you could say it's interesting to note that she decided to star in both versions of the same film. Having said that, I thought there was no reason why the scenes with the psychiatrist were needed because those scenes didn't contribute to the plot in any way. There are a few other scenes like this in which I didn't know what was supposed to be accomplished from them. Between that and the lackluster chemistry, this film could have benefited greatly from better story editing. In the end, I think "The Thomas Crown Affair", for all the complaints I've just made about it, is an ideal example of a film that's perfect for rental. It's one of those films that are basically a mixed bag that contains both things to like and dislike. It's good for rental since you can skip over the parts you don't really care about and fast forward to whatever it is you like from it, but just don't consider this film a must-see.