The Thomas Crown Affair

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Michael G @Lothario12 Dec 14 A well produced affair, however there is a lack of conviction in the story telling, a kind of dreary ennui pervades the entire film, the most notable aspect was that song which was lifted from the film (the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind) - a bored rich fella amuses himself with a clever heist, not really worth the time to view it in my opinion. See more bob c Feb 7 Still very good caper/romance See more Jeff S @jeffstone 02/20/2024 A different role for the equanimous McQueen, but he is great with Dunaway and still gets to rip up a beach with a dune buggy. The premise of the film is intriguing and the relationship between adventurer and investigator is compelling. There's a lot to like. See more Entropy O 01/02/2024 The directing was little too artistic in a way that really didn't work for me or add anything except annoying framing. Although likely related to the movies age, the love affair came off a little over dramatized. A surprising dud for me despite being a Steve McQueen movie. Just didn't love watching it. See more Elvis D @Elvis-Del-Valle 11/22/2023 No es una película muy emocionante y más aún teniendo en cuenta la época a la que pertenece, pero The Thomas Crown Affair tiene un guion inteligente con dos personajes muy llamativos. Thomas y Vicky son lo más fascinante por ser muy listos y verlos a ambos en una especie de lucha de ingenio a ver quién vence al otro. No existe mucha profundidad en los personajes, pero hay una tensión al verlos enfrentándose hasta que un lazo romántico termina interviniendo. Steve McQueen y Faye Dunaway son lo mejor de la película y lo que más se destaca, ya que el resto de la película es un drama sin mucho movimiento. The Thomas Crown Affair es un drama de crímenes que solo se caracteriza por sus dos protagonistas. Mi calificación final para esta película es un 8/10. See more Charles T 09/28/2023 They don't make 'em like this anymore, and that might be a good thing. McQueen is millionaire Thomas Crown, who hires a bunch of D.B. Cooper look-alikes to knock over a bank and give the money to him. He jets to Geneva with cash in tow, and opens a secret account that he uses to pay off his gang in installments. Fine. Jack Weston plays Erwin, one of the crooks who you just know is going to screw everything up. The Boston police are stumped, led by the lead stumped detective Eddie Malone (Paul Burke). There are no prints, no one seems to be able to give an accurate description of the gang, and the cops are at a dead end. Enter, almost thirty six minutes into this, Vicki Anderson (Faye Dunaway). Vicki is stylish, comes off as kind of dumb, and the perfect insurance investigator. She and Malone spend about three minutes deducing Crown is behind the robbery. Vicki is in it for the money, she gets ten percent of the more than two million dollars stolen as her salary. Vicki goes to the extraordinary means of kidnapping Erwin's child in order for him to get a large amount of money and prove he had something to do with the robbery. Vicki also makes herself available to Crown, under the watchful eye of Malone's cronies. Crown and Vicki fall in love, or is Vicki taking this investigation into some questionable territory? She lays all her cards on the table, telling Crown she is on to him, and literally ON him. Most of the rest of the film consists of this battle of twits, as one tries to outsmart the other. Finally, Crown comes up with the ultimate test for the unflappable Vicki, offering to rob the bank again and see if she will turn him in or not. This film premiered in 1968, and was the basis for the 1999 superior-in-every-way remake starring Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo. I, too, premiered in 1968, and felt ancient while witnessing what the fashion and interior design worlds were forcing onto my young mod parents. McQueen is cool and confident, Dunaway is cool and confident, and the film is cold and aloof. The viewer does not care one iota for these people, and I think the director senses this. Jewison pulls out every cinematic trick available- thank God as a nation we were able to reject the split-screen process and recognize it for what it was- stupid. The investment made in these two characters is so minimal, I knew every move they would make. Watching this is like watching an episode of "Columbo." The crime occurs, we know who did it, and we are supposed to be entertained by the process of detecting. In this film, the sexual byplay and tension is supposed to be the entertainment, and it is not. The chess scene is cutesy, the long kiss does not seem that long, and is concluded with another of Jewison's tricks. "The Windmills of Your Mind" is one of the worst Best Song Academy Award winners ever. It sounded like it was written in a recording studio bathroom while the singer cleared his throat and the orchestra tuned their instruments. Michel Legrand cannot decide if this film is a Hollywood romance from twenty years earlier, or a modern film defying those old conventions. He is all over the map. In the end, Crown's motive for all of this is that he is bored- I know how he feels. As Dunaway chokes back a sob at the end, and shows the only emotion in "The Thomas Crown Affair," I choked back my popcorn and motioned for the STOP button on the remote. See more Read all reviews

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