Out of Sight
Tags: neo noir, murder, cult, violence, flashback, psychedelic, romantic

Plot synopsis:
Jack Foley, a small-time crook and obviously agitated, walks out of an office building, rips his necktie off and throws it on the ground. He walks into a nearby bank and surveys the lobby for a few minutes. He walks up to a teller's window and informs the woman behind the counter that his accomplice is sitting with her manager and that if she doesn't follow his instructions, the man will shoot her boss. Foley tells her to empty the cash drawer of it's contents, leaving behind the bills on the very bottom of the piles. Foley assures her she's doing a good job, takes the money and walks out, stopping to talk momentarily to the man he identified as his accomplice. The man (a cameo by director Steven Soderbergh) has no idea who Foley is. Outside the bank, Foley tries to start his car, only to flood the engine in his desperation to flee the scene. A police officer, gun drawn, apprehends Foley, who submits without any altercation.The story jumps to two years before when Foley is a prisoner in Glades Correctional facility in Florida. Playing basketball with other inmates, he looks over the crowd of old-time "lifers" and seemingly reaches the conclusion that he doesn't want to end up like them. He spots a couple of fellow inmates, Chino and Lulu, jogging by. When he speaks to them later, he tells them he knows they are plotting an escape. Another security fence is being constructed just beyond the primary one just beyond the point where they plan to emerge once they've tunneled out. Foley tells them he's going with them in exchange for keeping silent about the breakout. Foley does tell a guard about the plan, telling the man to meet him in the prison chapel that night.In Miami, Karen Sisco, a US Marshall, has lunch with her father, a retired Marshall himself. He gives her a Sig-Sauer pistol as a birthday gift. He also questions her about a man she's been seeing, Ray Nicolette, another Marshall, who is married. Karen's father doesn't approve and she tells him to drop the subject. She also tells him that she has to go to Glades Correctional to follow up on a case.Karen arrives at Glades. Also arriving in the prison parking lot is Foley's longtime friend, Buddy. Lulu and Chino have already begun their escape from the prison chapel, while Foley stands watch. The guard Foley had told to come to the chapel arrives and Foley tells him to watch the fenceline. Foley grabs a large vase and hits the guard with it, knocking him out. Outside the fence, Sisco sees the men emerging from their tunnel and alerts the tower guards. Two men escape (one of them is Chino) and two more are shot. Foley surfaces, wearing the guard's uniform and tells the other guards that the tunnel is clear of escapees. Foley approaches Sisco, who wields a shotgun. Foley distracts Karen long enough for Buddy to grab her from behind and they throw her in the trunk of her car; Foley crawls in after her. Buddy drives them away. In the trunk, Foley and Karen have a lengthy conversation, largely about prisoners and movies. Buddy stops under a highway overpass where they are to meet another former convict, Glenn Michaels, who waits with another car. When Foley gets out of the trunk, Karen immediately opens fire with the pistol her father had given her. Foley manages to slam the trunk lid shut trapping her inside. They let her out when she promises to give herself up. They put Karen in the car with Glenn; Buddy and Foley talk for a few minutes about what to do with Karen. Foley is attracted to her, but Buddy doesn't believe she shares his feelings. Glenn suddenly drives off leaving them both behind.Buddy and Jack return to Miami and go to Buddy's apartment. Foley draws a hot bath and relaxes. Karen appears, gun drawn and finds Foley in the tub. She looks him over briefly and moves in to arrest him when he suddenly opens his eyes and greets her. Karen wakes up in a hospital bed, her father next to her. He asks her what she was dreaming about and she asks him what she said. Her father says, "Hey back." Karen had been unconscious for a brief time and recounts to her boss, Burdon, what happened: in the car with Glenn, Karen, remembering Glenn from a previous prisoner transfer, had persuaded Glenn to leave Buddy and Foley behind. Glenn had complied but an argument had broken out between them about what route to take. With both of them panicky, Karen had grabbed the steering wheel trying to force Glenn to take an exit on the highway. The car spun out of control, hit a water barrier and Karen hit her head inside the car. Karen's inexperienced boss is somewhat incredulous.At Buddy's apartment, Jack goes through the contents of Karen's purse, finding a picture of her father. Buddy tries to persuade Jack that they need to leave town immediately, however, Jack wants to see Karen one last time. Jack calls her at home and they have a short conversation. She suggest he turn himself in which Jack refuses to do. Buddy suddenly starts talking in the background and Karen recognizes his voice. Their need to escape even more serious, Jack hangs up. On the television is a report about a squatter's camp being raided; Lulu is among the dead. Jack realizes that Lulu could be tied to Chino; in prison, Jack had told Chino about his former wife, Adele, and where she lived. Jack also realizes that it won't be long before the US Marshal's Office finds Adele.Chino finds Adele's home and goes there, however, Karen has gotten there first and asks Adele if she knows of Jack's whereabouts. Chino starts pounding on Adele's door. Karen gets Adele to stall and when Chino breaks in, Karen arrests and cuffs him immediately. She calls Burdon and asks to be part of the task force looking for Buddy and Jack. Burdon refuses, so Karen asks him if he'll allow her on the team if she brings in Chino. At Buddy's apartment building, Burdon and his team close in on Buddy's apartment and Burdon makes Karen stand watch in the lobby. Buddy and Jack have already exited the room and head down to the parking garage in the elevator. The elevator stops at lobby-level and Karen catches a glimpse of Jack, who sees her also. Buddy and Jack make it to the car and leave.Jack and Buddy drive to Detroit, intending to catch up with a fellow inmate, Maurice "Snoopy" Miller. They also plan to find another former inmate, Richard Ripley, a wealthy businessman who'd been serving time for embezzlement. While incarcerated, he'd spoken to Glenn about a small fortune he had in uncut diamonds that he kept in his Detroit home. Glenn, however, didn't keep the information secret and Snoopy also intends to rip off Ripley as well. While driving in a limo around Detroit, Snoopy tells Glenn that he's taking over the operation of the heist. Glenn is initially resistant but quite intimidated by Snoopy. Snoopy also demands that Glenn accompany them on a job where they'll kill a transvestite who competes with Snoopy over drug-dealing territory. Glenn does so and the job turns out to be more violent and terrifying than he ever thought. He goes with Snoopy to the Kronk Gym where Jack and Buddy meet up with them. They all agree to meet at a boxing match the next night to discuss the plan to steal Ripley's fortune.Karen arrives in Detroit and talks to an associate about finding Jack. The agent, Raymond Cruz, in the midst of cleaning up the crime scene left by Snoopy and Glenn earlier in the day, tells her he'll get an address. Karen goes to Snoopy's home and talks to his sister, Moselle, who says she hasn't seen Maurice for several months but he may show up at the boxing matches at the State Theatre the next night. Also at the house is Kenny, Snoopy's brother-in-law. He corroborates Moselle's story and sends her to the store. After Moselle leaves, he tries to force himself on Karen, who hits him with a compact police baton and leaves.Back at her hotel, Karen fends off the advances of a few businessmen at the hotel bar, pointing out to one of them that she knows he's married. Foley quietly appears & they share a drink together. They go back to her room and have sex. Karen leaves the bed and begins to question Foley's motives in having sex with her. He assures her that he was not out for a one-nighter. In the morning, he's gone and has left the Sig-Sauer pistol he'd taken from her in Florida.Glenn goes with Maurice to the State Theatre where they watch boxing bouts. Glenn asks to be excused to use the mens room and quickly bolts out of the State and, while trying to hotwire the car Maurice had taken from him, finds Karen waiting for him. Glenn explains that he's really frightened of Maurice & just wants to get away from him. He also tells her that they're planning to rob Ripley's house. Karen lets Glenn go.Jack and Buddy case Ripley's house. While they sit in the car, Jack remembers meeting with Ripley at his Miami headquarters; in prison, Ripley had offered Jack a job with his corporation after he'd gotten out. Jack is angry to find out that Ripley expects him to take a lower-waged job as a security guard. Jack is furious, thinking Ripley owes him more because he'd protected him in prison. Ripley coldly counters by saying that Jack is a repentant criminal and not worthy of gainful employment. Jack is hustled out by security and walks toward the bank he robs in the first scene.After the fights at the State, Maurice, Jack, Buddy and Maurice's partners, Kenny and a hulking thug named White Boy Bob. Karen follows them. They drive to Ripley's mansion where Bob, posing as a plumber, forces himself in over the objections of Ripley's housekeeper, Midge. Maurice asks where Ripley is, Midge tells him he's in Florida for the winter. The crew forces her to take them to Ripley's safe in his bedroom. Maurice charges Foley with checking the other rooms in the house. In Ripley's closet, Maurice finds the safe behind some suits. He, Kenny & Bob try to shoot it open; before they can open fire on their second try, Midge tells them the combination is Ripley's birth date. When they get the safe open they only find Ripley's hairpieces. Maurice leaves the room, looking for Foley.Jack enters Ripley's office and finds Ripley on hold with 911. Buddy finds them both and Jack mentions that he knows that Ripley has hidden his stash of uncut diamonds in the large fish tank in the office. Jack has Buddy retrieve them and take them out to the van, believing they can slip away before Maurice finds them. Out at the van, Jack has an attack of conscience, believing that Maurice is going to kill both Ripley & Midge, possibly raping Midge first. he tells Buddy to take the diamonds and go. Buddy give him a pistol and drives off. Foley reenters the house and goes up to the bedroom. Kenny is in bed with Midge, forcing himself on her. When Foley calls to Midge, Kenny shoots through the door with his sawed-off shotgun, missing Foley. Foley rushes in and shoots Kenny dead, something he's never done before. As Foley makes his way back to the main staircase, he's stopped by Bob. Bob begins to trot up the stairs, trips, and kills himself when his pistol goes off under his chin. Maurice rushes to the scene, shooting at Foley. When they both run out of shots, they begin to fight, Maurice quickly gaining the advantage with his boxing skill. Foley finds Kenny's gun, Maurice seizes Bob's, but isn't faster than Foley, who shoots him dead. Karen also shows up, telling Jack to surrender. Jack, not wanting to go back to prison, wants Karen to kill him but she refuses, shooting Jack in the leg. Jack is tackled by another cop and handcuffed.Within a few days, Jack is due to be transported back to Florida to face charges associated with his escape from Lompoc. He's put into a van that Karen will also ride in. Before they leave another prisoner, Hejira (a cameo by Samuel L. Jackson), is also put into the van. Jack asks him where he got his name; "Hejira" is the Arabic term for the prophet Muhammed's 7th Century flight from Mecca. Hejira goes on to tell Jack that he's escaped from prison at least nine times. Jack thinks that Karen put Hejira into the van with him because they'd "have a lot to talk about" during the long drive to Florida. They drive off, Karen smiling in the front seat.(This summary of the movie is not long enough to be suitable as a synopsis. Please add more information to complete the synopsis.)The story revolves around the relationship between a career bank robber, Jack Foley (George Clooney), and a U.S. Marshal, Karen Sisco (Jennifer Lopez). They are forced to share her car trunk during Foley's escape from a Florida prison. After he completes his getaway, Sisco chases Foley while he and his friends - his right-hand man, Buddy (Ving Rhames) and Glenn (Steve Zahn) - work their way north to Bloomfield Hills, a wealthy northern suburb of Detroit. There they plan to pay a visit to shady businessman Ripley (Albert Brooks), who foolishly bragged to them years before about a diamond stash at his mansion. But a vicious criminal (Don Cheadle) who also spent time in jail with Jack and Ripley, is planning on hitting up Ripley's mansion with his crew, consisting of (Keith Loneker) and (Isaiah Washington), as well. The question of whether Sisco is really pursuing Foley to arrest him or for love adds to "the fun" Foley claims they are having.

Review: Lo/Jenny from the Block/Bennifer/media whore phase.Back when she used to have a little (now she has a lot), Jennifer Lopez was actually enjoyable in Steven Soderbergh's 'Out of Sight.' I saw this in the theater when it came out and remember thinking it was one of the better films I'd seen that year.
Too bad it didn't ignite the Box Office, but Out Of Sight is one movie both George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez can feel damn proud of.
After much consideration, I must concur: it's equal parts to all 3.Strong performances by Clooney (Jack) and Lopez (Karen), as well as George's Ocean's 11 co-star Don Cheadle.
Based upon the novel by Elmore Leonard ("Get Shorty", "Jackie Brown"), the movie tells the tale of odd couple Jack Foley (George Clooney), a career criminal, and federal marshall Karen Sisco (Jennifer Lopez).
Ultimately you believe all of these actors in their parts, even if JLo's skirts are entirely too short for a federal agent.Like "Ocean's Eleven", "Out of Sight" is a very good film, merging quality in all aspects of film-making into a fully enjoyable two hour experience.
Based on the inimitable Elmore Leonard novel the story begs indulgence in credible situations but shines in quality of script and characterization and an atmospheric cinematic capturing of a dark, film noir comedy drama that grabs you by the head and holds you glued to the screen for the duration.The story is rather simple on the surface - a jailed bank robber escapes with the help of his buddy and plans a major hit only to encounter a federal agent in pursuit of the two who becomes the love interest portion of this strangely convoluted tail.
Subplots and sidebars are sprinkled throughout Soderbergh's telling of Leonard's story, serving to keep our minds alert and mesmerized by the plot development.The cast is absolutely first rate with George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez and Ving Rhames especially pungent in roles that seem written for them.
Bank robber George Clooney escapes prison one day and is tracked by a female federal marshal (Jennifer Lopez, in a very hot performance).
I loved it.By the way, seeing this movie after Jennifer Lopez has launched her career in pop music simply infuriated me that Hollywood has all but lost a true talent to the world of bubblegum pop..
Scott Frank gets Elmore Leonard just right, and Steven Soderburgh makes all the right decisions, pulling George Clooney's best performance out of him.
I am amazed that most of George Clooney's movies fail, with the exception of "Batman and Robin" all of his films have been good.
This film has good performances from a talented cast and great direction from an original story by Elmore Leonard.
The most laughable scenes have Clooney standing up to genuinely dangerous looking black and white cons (isn't Clooney afraid he is going to break a nail?) This movie could have been a hoot if it didn't contain Elmore Leonard usual mean spiritedness.
The best performances come from the peripheral players, Ving Rhames (like THAT is a surprise!), Don Cheedle, Catherine Keener, Dennis Farina, Nancy Allen (looking surprisingly fetching) and, especially Albert Brooks.
Boy, this is a volatile cast and a diverse one, from pretty boy George Clooney to pretty girl Jennifer Lopez to burly Ving Rhames and little Don Cheadle to explosive Dennis Farina and low-key comedian (usually) Albert Brooks.
The talent-challenged Ms. Lopez was unintentionally amusing as a cop horny for the villain, and it was an insult to viewers' intelligence to always have clooney's character, a bank robber, always coming out smelling like a rose.
Jennifer Lopez is one of the worst actresses I have seen in my whole entire life and she should stick to dancing since its the only thing she's good at.Anyone who honestly believes that this is a great movie needs their head examined.
This is just another example of Hollywood taking a great idea for a story and turning it into boring, worthless drivel that people are *supposed* to like just because it has Jennifer Lopez in it.If you had a choice out of watching this movie and flushing your five dollars down the toilet, in my advice flush the money.
I think it would have been better to see Clooney work with Pfeiffer for this movie rather than Lopez.
But I feel there is an aspect of imperfection in an individual's failures that is a major quality of what makes us human.Jack Foley (George Clooney) is a graying bank robber who, despite a sense of good nature and intelligence, does unplanned, and unarmed, bank heists and consequently spends most of his time in prison, no doubt scheming up new plans to get out.
Sisco is very firm and bubbling with self-esteem, yet she's dating an married FBI agent who carries an arrogant, macho look on his face.Of course, I could go on forever, from Buddy's (Ving Rhames) certainly dull-witted habit of calling his sister to confess of jobs, especially one confession that got him and Foley busted, to White Boy Bob, who you'd write off as a basic bad guy character, until he does that thing to himself near the end of the movie.Now, there are many who will fault the movie for lagging, having too much dialogue, etc.
And that is why I love this film so much; this was made for an intelligent audience, for an audience that wants a little more out of dialogue, wants to get aroused without explicit sexuality on-screen (styles director Soderbergh is known for), and enjoy a good crime movie without the repetitive, drawn out gun battles.Soderbergh wanted to go mainstream with this movie, but you can only see him going deeper and deeper into film avant-garde.
This film was also Jennifer Lopez's best screen performance far and away.
A gorgeous film to look at, a great soundtrack, superb dialog and stellar performances from an all-star cast of actors.
This is a high quality action film, and should be on everybody's must watch (at least) yearly list to see how a good movie can be made!.
Soderbergh elicits the first truly great performance out of Clooney, an underrated actor, and Jennifer Lopez really never has been better.
The supporting cast really shines, with Ving Rhames, Catherine Keener, Don Cheadle, Albert Brooks (who is nearly unrecognisable for most of the film) and Luis Guzman all doing stellar work.Overall, a great comedic action-drama for adults.
Jennifer Lopez, George Clooney, Ving Rhames, Catherine Keener and everyone else are perfectly cast and perform admirably.
Little action until the end, yes, Jennifer Lopez is hot, but come on, super stars don't -always- make for good movies..
Ving Rhames deserves to play a real meaty role and this wasn't it, it was still a good performance.Clooney and Lopez are provide sexual sparks, a plus point.The screenplay provides some terrific dialogue but didn't feel complete and the direction was a little tedious, I know Steve is a very good director but I was disappointed with this.
The photography is PERFECT.I want to love this film, but the character played by Lopez was a huge disappointment..
No one should disagree with me when I say that the sexual tension between Jennifer Lopez and George Clooney was the best on-screen in a long time.
In Out Of Sight Jack Foley (George Clooney) gets busted doing a stupid bank hold up (even though he's done a couple of hundred of them), escapes from prison but then gets mixed up with U.S. Marshal Karen Sisco (Jennifer Lopez).
George Clooney has charm and charisma, but I think he and the first class supporting cast (Rhames, Cheadle, Zahn, Brooks, Farina, Keener et al) are let down by a mundane script.
The premise of this movie seems to be that George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez are pretty, and that should be enough for the viewer.
As well as being a classy movie with great duologue, wonderful chemistry between its two leads and a great plot, Out Of Sight was also a significant touchstone in 90s and 00s film as it was the movie where both George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez came of age.
Clooney as a cool, charming, fatalistic crook Jack Foley and Lopez as sassy, sexy, tough and yet vulnerable FBI agent Karen Cisco.Adapted from an Elmore Leonard novel, the film is essentially about an FBI agent attempting to track down a master thief that she is infatuated, possibly even in love, with after being locked in the boot of her car with him during his escape.
It's a premise brimming with possibilities, and in this case is executed perfectly, in no small way thanks to superb direction from Steven Soderbergh and an excellent cast.Lopez and Clooney's career- defining turns are joined by great supporting performances from Dennis Farina, Steve Zahn, Albert Brooks, Don Cheadle, Ving Rhames and Luis Guzman, with cameos from Michael Keaton and a big name African American star (who I won't name here) at the film's end to up the enjoyment still further.Out Of Sight was a great film when it came out in the late 90s, and is still just as entertaining today.
Jack Foley(Clooney, with his charm turned up high throughout, you don't want him to go back to jail) has been robbing banks about as far back as he remembers, so when he abducts federal marshal Karen Sisco(like The Cisco Kid, only spelled different; Lopez plays the role well, some distance and authority, yet without being completely detached; I am not usually impressed with her performance, this is a welcome exception) and they have to be in the trunk of a car until his friend, Buddy(Rhames, very kind-hearted, underneath a small-time crook surface), gets them far enough from the prison he just broke out of, the romantic attraction wasn't entirely expected by either of them, and yet however they might want to, they can't deny that it was there.
I had expected more of this film.I expected a great plot,charming characters and lotsa suspense and romance.Instead it turned out to be just a vehicle for Jennifer Lopez to show her acting skills and George Clooney to play a smartass charmer(hmm,isn't this familiar?).The story starts out well,but then it takes a 180 degree turn into a rather boring robber story.First flaw with the film is the character of Glenn.What is the point with this awful,annoying character?!?This is where the film first starts to show signs of typical Hollywood stupidity.There is no need for this guy and he doesn't do ANYTHING.He was a major pain in the ass to me and I found it hard to keep myself from changing the channel every time I saw him.Second flaw is that there is no point with all the flashbacks, the use of them was exaggerated by the cocky and over-ambitious Soderbergh.The background story with Jack Foley and his inmate friends really fails to make a meaningful connection to the rest of the plot.The pluses of this picture were Lopez and Catherine Keener,both good to look at and solid in their roles.Also Ving Rhames was quite good as the faithful pal Buddy.The showdown scene in the end where White Boy trips and shoots himself in the head was worth watching.Don Cheadle was OK,although not impressive.But George Clooney,although he didn't give a bad performance,failed to impress and really show himself as actor the way he did in "From dusk till dawn","One fine day" and "O brother where art thou?",and also "ER".Samuel L.
makes a nice cameo at the end.So my conclusion is that this film tried to be too much somehow.It betted on one horse too many.I had liked it better if it was more focused on romance than all the robbery schemes and the dark past of its main male protagonist.For me,who had expected it to be a hidden gem of late 90's,it was a disappointment(although not major).What the heck,at least we got to see Clooney and JLO do it.;).
What confuses me the most about this film is how people say that it has great plot/direction/acting etc - er, are we watching the same movie here.
In a way this movie showed all our secret hopes, like you want someone you know you can't have so you dream of them.I wanted to kill George Clooney after 'Batman & Robin', but I must say, after this, he's topped my 'cool actors list'.See this movie, right now, go, go, go..
The whole thing was unbelievable........George Clooney however has incredible charisma....is incredibly sexy.....he could hold me hostage anytime :)Steve Zahn who played bad boy wannabe Glenn gave the best performance of any of the cast in my opinion....Ving Rhames was excellent also.....All in all it was mindless entertainment.
George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez ignited the screen as Jack Foley and Karen Sisco; they meshed together greatly, producing an amazing film.
George Clooney remains one of the better actors in Hollywood (so all of you guys out there who are, for some unknown reason, bashing him - get a clue), and Ving Rhames and Don Cheadles turn in great supporting performances.
After watching a lot of movies,you get the feeling you have seen it all.Once in a while you get a movie that's imaginative.It takes a great director and script to mine out the best of all the cast.George Clooney and J-Lo are at their best here,and anyone who says they can't act needs to see this.This movie hooks you right from the beginning and doesn't let go.
There are a lot of great lines in it, especially between George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez.
A lost of actors are playing characters they will do again in former films, but never better: Ving Rhames, Dennis Farina, Steve Zahn and Luiz Guzman for example.
The best role of Clooney and Lopez - Steven Soderbergh is acknowledged, that he great lead/direct actors (after all in his movies were promoted stars like James Spader and Andie McDowell); another example is - the best in her career - role of Julia Roberts (which is pretty average actress) in also very good movie "Erin Brockovich".
Clooney and Lopez are unsympathetic, and Ving Rhames is simply wasted on this movie.
The acting and directing is superb, the chemistry between the leads Clooney and Lopez is electric and Ving Rhames puts in the usual brilliant performance.
It would have been a much better movie if Lopez had just been kidnapped and taken for a ride by Clooney and Rhames chased by the police.
The chemistry between george clooney and jennifer lopez is so rarely seen explosive, and the love scene between them is one of the most romantic moments i have ever seen on screen.
Out of Sight is a brilliant little movie with big characters a nice plot to hold them, and though it's not a comedy, it has a couple jokes that are side-splitting.
And the cast is great as well, with George Clooney in great shape as a bank robber who falls for a FBI agent (Jennifer Lopez) while locked in a trunk with her.
He's like a B list actor who thinks he's an A list and tries to take up more bandwidth than is called for in the story or the script.The movie tries to be artsy or cool by taking unusual steps in the story which is another thing that annoys me.Basically the story is pretty good, and if they didn't play with the script as much, and tried to deliver solid performance on the strength of the actors, and more focus on motives of the individual, the overall product could have been better.Jennifer Lopez gets it as she usually does on what needs to be done.
I was NOT a Clooney or a Lopez fan, but after the movie, I became one...of both.
The music brings a lot of style and image to the movie.George Clooney is playing an intelligent crook.
I even liked Jennifer Lopez' role in this movie, even though she wasn't really exceptional if you ask me.
George Clooney, gleaming with charm, and Jennifer Lopez, in her best performance to date, are a perfect couple thrown into a unusual romantic connection.
An FBI-cop (Jennifer Lopez) who falls in love with a professional bankrobber (George Clooney) while he is making his way out of prison sounds pretty charming but once you see the movie you know it's just a lame excuse for director Soderbergh (Ocean's eleven) to film a romantic crimecomedy that must bring back memories to movies like Peckinpah's "The getaway".
He and director Steven Soderbergh(perhaps the most underrated director around) understand that an Elmore Leonard novel isn't just one thing; it's crime drama, romantic comedy, even an action movie in there.The cast is really good too.
This Steven Soderbergh directed, George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez acted crime thriller is a cut above average by avoiding the over the top crime spree and keeping the movie relatively simple and straight forward.
Jennifer Lopez's US marshal came across as a little bland, though; it seemed like she was more about her looks than her character.
It's one of Steven Soderbergh's more dated films, being that it was made 20 years ago, but it's also one of the sharpest in terms of dialogue and performances.On the outside, the romance between Jennifer Lopez and George Clooney is flooded with clichés.
And Lopez, who isn't known for her acting, is actually quite good as Karen Sisco.Unsurprisingly for a Soderbergh film, the cast as a whole is phenomenal.
But with this cast, it was hard to mess it up."Out of Sight" was a great book and the movie won't disappoint.
The pace of the movie allows for the actors to act and bring out their characters beyond plain good and bad guys.
(both films were based on Elmore Leonard novels)  Enough good actors for you??
Karen is assigned to bringing them in, but starts to have second thoughts about it.Good acting by the main actors who have great characters to play, which people can expect from any movie adapted from an Elmore Leanord novel.