Boy I swear, I saw this movie back almost a year ago, and ya know... I seem to remember it as being not half bad. Some moderate laughs and a bit of fun... But... I might be delusional. Here's Garret's look...
Before I made my way into the dark halls of the nearby movie temple I saw a short description of Plunkett & Macleane and thought to my self that this could be a rather interesting pic. Since I am a master thief it was an easy task for me to sneak into this Austrian preview (ah...nice little word game for my German speaking fellows) and instead of seeing another bullshit movie like last week (message in a bottle) the gods smiled at me. At least that's what I thought. but they never smile at me. They grin.
Plunkett and Macleane are two men at the bottom of their lives. They team up together to rob the bad and...keep it. Just my taste of character to be honest. James Macleane (Jonny Lee Miller) has the connections to the high society and Mr. Plunkett (Robert Carlyle), a former druggist that turned into a thief, has the criminal skills to get the 'redundant' money of the aristocrats. But of course there are some problems. One in form of Ken Scott (not bad. nothing more) and the other in form of a goddess - Liv Tyler (now is this a sexy mouth or what...).
Nothing more to spoil. It would take one single sentence to tell you the rest of this weak story. And it would be a rather short sentence. The script combined with the great actors has so much potential and fairly uses it. Jake "I normally do music videos but my brothers seem to earn more money" Scot really screwed it up. To catch the look of the 17th century London they shot the movie in Prague and it really works out well. Also the music is surprisingly good although it is modern (sometimes techno) music. I have to admit that my impression of the movie was also influenced by those stupid idiots who managed to kill the reel in the middle of the best scene and then cut about 2 minutes out.
What Ken Scot intended to do was a modern movie set back in the 17th century. But with all those missed opportunities it's just an average and self important movie that wants to be cool.
regards,
Garrett.
