Sexy Beast DVD (Region 1)

7.8	Listal rating

Manufacturer : 20th Century Fox
Release date : 12 March 2002
Number of discs : 1
EAN : 0024543026747
UPC : 024543026747

Gift (1), Hdd (1), 2000's (1), DivX/avi (1), Kartonik (1), Drama (1), Horror (1), Crime (1), 2000 (1)

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Product DescriptionBen Kingsley is "the most savage, mad-dog, frothing gangster in recent movies." -Roger Ebert, The Chicago-Sun TimesBen Kingsley is unforgettably menacing as "the anti-Gandhi" (The New Yorker), delivering "his best performance ever" (Premiere Magazine) in this high-voltage film that crackles with style and wit.< Product Description
Ben Kingsley is "the most savage, mad-dog, frothing gangster in recent movies." -Roger Ebert, The Chicago-Sun Times

Ben Kingsley is unforgettably menacing as "the anti-Gandhi" (The New Yorker), delivering "his best performance ever" (Premiere Magazine) in this high-voltage film that crackles with style and wit.

When sociopathic gangster Don Logan (Kingsley) tries to recruit an ex-partner in crime (Ray Winstone) for a high-stakes heist back to London, the retired criminal refuses, favoring the legit life after serving a prison term. But Logan won't take no for an answer. Tension hits the fever-pitch as this battle of wills plays out in a story that is as funny as it is terrifying.

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Running Time 89

Format: DVD MOVIE

A retired British gangster (Ray Winstone) is trying to keep out of a London heist, despite the efforts of Don Logan (Ben Kingsley), a goateed, shaved-headed pit bull of a gangster in this raw, startling film that grabs your attention and never lets go. Gary "Gal" Dove lounges at his villa on Costa del Sol, with not a care in the world, until his Mediterranean paradise is interrupted by Logan, just arrived to recruit Gal for a London heist led by mob boss Teddy Bass (Ian McShane). Gal refuses the job; Logan won't hear it. He's human nitroglycerine, ready to explode at the slightest provocation, spewing Cockney profanities like armor-piercing bullets. Sexy Beast presents him as hilarious and horrifying, a soloist whose instrument is pure, bilious rage.

Kingsley's volatile performance--the polar opposite of his Oscar®-winning role in Gandhi--expands the actor's range into startlingly unexpected territory. It's the white-hot center of Sexy Beast, but the feature debut of director Jonathan Glazer (after acclaimed TV commercials and music videos) is equally noteworthy for the performance of the lesser-known Winstone, and also for Glazer's brass-knuckle approach to what is, essentially, a conventional gangland thriller. Glazer's instincts aren't always sound (dream sequences involving a hideous man-rabbit prove a bit too peculiar), but with pugilistic rhythm and a humorous knack for combining well-chosen songs and a rough, kinetic visual style, Sexy Beast is a wild ride. --Jeff Shannon.

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