Sexy Beast (2000)
4/10
Boiler-Plate Plot held together by Kingsley
3 February 2020
Retired gangster is rudely yanked out of his idyllic life at a Spanish villa and roped back into pulling off one last heist. Yeah, the same old, same old. Ben Kingsley is the glue that holds this tissue-thin trope, I mean 'plot', together, and hell, the movie is almost worth it just for "He touched me front, me front bottom", along with that (completely random) dream sequence (I doubt that was the sort of 'Bunnyman' Echo had in mind) that still has us going WTF? 20 years later, and that ending as well. Apart from that, it's all safely familiar boiler-plate heist fare that has them flooding the bank or something, I don't remember the details, but with this sort of movie, they tend not to matter. I'll also give it a bonus point for inspiring GTA V and (possibly) the Donnie Darko rabbit.
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