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Hype just isn't always what its cracked up to be. Which means you are left with disappointment and even frustration, but enough about my sex life. Speaking of sex, Sexy Beast is supposed to be a great film with a stellar performance from Academy Award winner Ben Kingsley (he won for Gandhi). I'll agree that Kingsley (Rules of Engagement) is great as a British mobster, but the rest of the picture just didn't do it for me. As I said, Kingsley is a crook, and more specifically he is Don Logan. Logan is entrusted by London crime boss Teddy Bass (Ian McShane) to put together a group of bank robbers for a heist of a very sophisticated and secure bank vault where many priceless personal possessions of the rich are stored in deposit boxes. On the top of his list of people to enlist on the heist is retired bank robber Gal (Ray Winstone, The War Zone), who really doesn’t want to be involved (the film really revolves around him). You see Gal now lives in sunny Spain with his wife Deedee (Amanda Redman) and his favorite pool boy Enrique (Alvaro Monje). Also living at the chateau are his married friends Jackie (Julianne White) and Aitch (Cavan Kendall). None of this people want Logan to come visit, mainly because he can be quite violent and is a mobster. So the rest of the film is the Spain gang trying to survive while Logan tries various methods to get Gal to do the job. Meanwhile, some very stylistic events that are unrelated to the story are taking place around them. This is a very short and simplistic summary, but you get the point. Sexy Beast really lacked in the sex department, which was OK since these people are all a bit older than myself (most are around 50). This Jonathan Glazer directed movie was occasionally funny, but not enough to make it a comedy with all the violence going on (a boulder falling in the pool belongs in a slapstick comedy, not this film). And not to sound like an uncultured slob, but it was difficult understanding what the hell these people were saying (I guess I needed subtitles). And story wise, nothing groundbreaking with a mob story, a bank robbery, or retired crooks being drafted by the mob. Louis Mellis and David Scinto are responsible for the writing, if you wanted to know. So, some good acting performances that were ruined by a dumb story. In the end, just three couches out of ten. Goodnight all.
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