Out of Sight

Directed by Steven Soderbergh, star studded, and consisting of outstanding cinematography, OUT OF SIGHT is a hell of a lot of fun. Based off of the Elmore Leonard novel, OUT OF SIGHT is at first glance the story of a cop-criminal relationship. The characters in the film are well aware of this fact, and that makes the film all the better. George Clooney stars as Jack Foley. He's a career bank robber, been in and out of prison, and has a way with words that gets most people to do whatever he wants. Soderbergh puts us in the middle of Foley's life, and the film concerns itself with what happened before, and what's happening. Foley has a number of criminal friends, all entertaining characters, especially Ving Rames as Foley's partner, but when he breaks out of prison, he stumbles across the beautiful, hard-ass U.S. Marshall, Karen Sisco (Jennifer Lopez in a very good performance). Karen follows Foley around the country as he plans one last big heist, but this is an unconventional tale that takes us through the conventions and then shows us how it can do them differently. The filmmaking is smart and the images are excellent, Clooney is great, and Lopez surprises us. OUT OF SIGHT is a great movie, it's entertaining and a lot of fun.
Out of Sight: ★★★★