Out of Sight (1998)

Posted : 1 year, 5 months ago at Jun 1 7:21

"It's like seeing someone for the first time, and you look at each other for a few seconds, and there's this kind of recognition like you both know something. Next moment the person's gone, and it's too late to do anything about it." After spending the decade of the 1990s in the shadows and remaining overlooked, Steven Soderbergh made his mark in Hollywood with Out of Sight: this sufficiently entertaining crime drama. It's rather a daunting task to categorise a Soderbergh production - this film has elements of romance, comedy, drama, crime and thriller. With these elements in mind, the filmmakers have tossed in a dense, intricate, somewhat fractured screenplay to be implemented by a questionable group of actors. The stage is set for something moderately different to occur. Jack Fole...Read more

Rating : 6/10

Posted : 2 years ago at Nov 16 18:16

Not too bad, I was just expecting it to be a little better. George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez had better chemistry than I would have expected, but that doesn't make the overall movie worth more than 3 stars. George Clooney is Jack Foley, the most successful bank robber in the country. On the day he busts out of jail, he meets Karen Sisco, and easily falls for her. Unfortunately for him, she's a federal agent, but the two start to risk everything to find out if there could have been something between them. It's not exactly original, there's a lot of movies with themes like this, but this is one of the only ones that I have seen. It's not completely romance but there was a lot more than I expected. I would have liked to see more action from this film.. George Clooney was the best he co...Read more

Rating : 6/10

Posted : 3 years ago at Nov 1 15:38

This may have been George Clooney's audition tape to the Ocean's Eleven series, similar character development and interaction with the leading lady, yes, definitely a nice prelude to Daniel Ocean. Overall, a good movie and I barely noticed the acting "talent" that is J.Lo.

Rating : 8/10