I told my mom I was watching this movie and she told me to watch the Pearce Brosnan remake instead because the original is terrible. She wasn't wrong. This is not a good movie. Thomas Crown (Steve McQueen) is multi-millionaire who plans a bank robbery to relieve his crushing ennui. The bank's insurance company brings in a specialist, Vicky Anderson (Faye Dunaway), to help the police solve what seems like a perfect crime. Vicky soon narrows in on Crown and the two begin a cat-and-mouse game of attraction.
Let's just skip past the questionable ethics and discuss how a heist movie could be so boring. I have watched several Steve McQueen films and frankly I just don't get the man's appeal. He's like a second-rate Paul Newman. He's just not charismatic and this character desperately needed to be, considering that the plot was wafer-thin. Everything in this film was about style but you have to have substance underneath or the whole thing just falls apart.
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