Product: Plunkett & Macleane
Rating: 3.0
Predictable, Brainless Fun
Robert Carlyle and Johnny Lee Miller are great actors, and they do an admirable job with this piece of period pulp. They've both been in better movies, but seem to have had a particlarly good time making this one. I guess that robbing the rich is more fun for them than being heroine junkies in "Trainspotting." Liv Tyler is pretty as always, and she's a good actress as well, but her role in this film is shallow and lackluster - something that should be attributed to the screenplay, not her.This is a modern day swashbuckler where the good guys are outlaws and the bad guy (Ken Stott) is just a truly manipulative, nasty person. There's nothing really original about this film, but it is fun to watch and shows promise for Jake Scott as a director. It doesn't aspire to greatness, so it's easy to grant a little leeway.You probably won't find anybody saying that it's the best movie they've seen but they certainly won't say that it's awful.The DVD is a bit weak on added features - the featurette does not include anything that you couldn't really get out of the movie on your own. It is, however, kind of interesting to see the difference between the UK and the US trailers for the film. Overall, a decent rental.