Review – The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)

This movie is nowhere near as charming or clever as it needed to be to succeed as a high-stakes art theft story. For openers, Rene Russo was wrong for the role of the suave, sophisticated insurance investigator out to catch billionaire art thief Thomas Crown (Pierce Brosnan). The script and direction also fall a little flat. Overall, the picture just doesn’t keep moving, dwelling on a chemistry-free romance between the leads that was evidently supposed to be the focus of the film. And that’s a bit of a shame, because with the budget the film-makers had, they could have made an interesting caper flick along the lines of Sneakers. Mildly amusing