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The Limey [DVD] [1999]

DVD ~ Terence Stamp
4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (19 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Terence Stamp, Peter Fonda, Lesley Ann Warren, Luis Guzmán, Barry Newman
  • Directors: Steven Soderbergh
  • Writers: Lem Dobbs
  • Producers: John Hardy, Scott Kramer
  • Format: Anamorphic, PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Cinema Club
  • DVD Release Date: 12 Aug 2002
  • Run Time: 85 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004W0T5
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 15,282 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Two icons of 60s cinema, Terence Stamp and Peter Fonda, go head-to-head in Steven Soderbergh's stylish reworking of the lone avenger theme. Stamp plays Wilson, an ageing Cockney villain newly out of jail, who arrives in Los Angeles to ask some awkward questions. His beloved daughter, mistress of powerful rock promoter Terry Valentine (Fonda), has died in a car crash; but Wilson's far from convinced it was an accident. With his gaunt, grim features and sparse white hair, Stamp's a dead ringer for the angel of death. Or maybe, as Soderbergh hints with some intricate flashback and flash-forward cutting, the whole story is a dying man's dream of vengeance. Echoes of Get Carter and Point Blank aren't far to seek. Though it's tense, gripping and often funny--Wilson's rhyming-slang dialogue bemuses every American he meets--The Limey is shot through with an aching sense of loss and wasted years. The final showdown between Wilson and Valentine feels like the epitaph of an era once rich in dreams. Some of the film's most poignant moments are its "flashbacks" to Wilson's younger days, which are actually clips from Ken Loach's 1967 movie Poor Cow, featuring the twentysomething Stamp, insolently and heart-breakingly beautiful. --Philip Kemp

DVD Description
DVD Special Feature:

2 Commentaries
Isolated Music Score
Cast and Crew Interviews
Behind The Scenes Footage
Theatrical Trailer

Video Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Anamorphic
Main Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles: English for the hard of hearing

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Great film - but don't expect an action thriller, 4 Aug 2000
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This is a film with a very thin plot but powerful characters. Terence Stamp is perfectly cast as the ageing gangster on a mission of revenge. Soderbergh's directing style (constant flashbacks, lengthy shots of silent characters' faces whilst dialogue continues as voice-over)seems pretty wearing at first, but the pace picks up as the film progresses. All the references, which seem a bit obtuse at first (e.g. a recurring flashback to Wilson's daughter on a beach as a child) are resolved by the end of the film. Fonda is great as a millionaire Sixties has-been. His fawning devotion on his current girlfriend (40 years younger at least) underlines his recognition that time is running out for him. In the end, of course, Stamp and Fonda's characters are two sides of the same coin.

I took this film out thinking it would be a violent, cool, thriller. It is all of those things, but certainly no action movie. More one for the art-house. The script is taut - there are very few wasted words. If you like character-driven movies that make you think, you'll enjoy this. If you're looking for a shoot-'em-up, give it a miss!

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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars 'Tell me about Jenny,' he whispered., 26 Aug 2000
By A. C. Walter "awalter" (Lynnwood, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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Wilson (Terence Stamp) is an aging, but still surprisingly capable, British criminal just released from prison. He travels from the UK to LA and begins looking into his daughter's recent death with a gut feeling that Jenny's car wreck was not an accident. There Wilson meets Jenny's closest friends and asks them all about her life in LA. He soon targets Valentine (Peter Fonda), Jenny's lover, as the obvious culprit.

That's the surface of the film, but there is another layer here that turned standard thriller material into sublime art house fare. "The Limey" is very much a visual, cerebral film that moves in spirals and wanders through a labyrinth of moods and lyrical images. The film is finally all about memories, and its climax is an epiphany of memory and of the strange patterns that we fall into in our lives.

"The Limey" takes a circuitous approach to the phenomenon of women falling for men like their fathers and bringing their father-daughter baggage along with them. What trouble these relationships are the specific emotional patterns and games people play, which are worked out in great detail between child and parent very early in life. So what happens when you bring all that to a relationship with a new person who doesn't know the rules of your game, doesn't know when you're bluffing or when you're making a serious threat? Well, in a worst case scenario you might just end up dead.

And how does it feel, as a parent, to recognize your own handiwork in your child's homespun catastrophe? "The Limey" answers that question with the force of Greek tragedy, and the answer rings true. The film is a rare cinematic accomplishment, achieving both an honest emotional foundation for Wilson's dark epiphany and a web of rich, resonant images that anchor the entire experience in a vivid, dazzling tapestry.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Modern Classic, 8 April 2001
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An awesome film, visually rich and brilliantly characterised. I was astounded by the artistry and richness of the film when I saw it in the cinema. It is a classic and will out-last a lot of the mainstream rubbish around and will be with us for years to come.
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The Limey is a bit tasty. Terence Stamp doing the hard(ish) man act comes across quite well. The London accent doesn't quite ring true, but then that may be deliberate. Read more
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