The original "Thomas Crown Affair" showed a cool and disciplined Steve McQueen, a seductive and self-controlled Faye Dunaway and - very important - a really cleverly and well-planned crime. The Story is really like a game of chess, and the dilemma of Faye to choose between love and business is climaxing in the end. Every part of that film could be true.
The new film shows nothing of all that. It could be called a "nice film" if they only had not tried a "remake". Pierce Brosnan is playing a rich loser, who gives away 100.000s of bucks for dull bets. And no real lover of art would handle paintings like he does. Rene Russo always seems to be drunk and remote-controlled. Unfortunately even Faye Dunaway accepted a role in this film - as if that could justify this catastrophe. In the end you are feeling cheated - how can all people be so dumb: if only guards would accept wrong deliveries, if only art experts would not recognize water colors instead of oil, if only detectives would follow every step you take but not after obviously your lover committed a crime (and you will run to him), if only monitoring systems would be at the level of the 1950s... anybody could easily become a criminal like Thomas Crown.
Very disappointed!
The new film shows nothing of all that. It could be called a "nice film" if they only had not tried a "remake". Pierce Brosnan is playing a rich loser, who gives away 100.000s of bucks for dull bets. And no real lover of art would handle paintings like he does. Rene Russo always seems to be drunk and remote-controlled. Unfortunately even Faye Dunaway accepted a role in this film - as if that could justify this catastrophe. In the end you are feeling cheated - how can all people be so dumb: if only guards would accept wrong deliveries, if only art experts would not recognize water colors instead of oil, if only detectives would follow every step you take but not after obviously your lover committed a crime (and you will run to him), if only monitoring systems would be at the level of the 1950s... anybody could easily become a criminal like Thomas Crown.
Very disappointed!