Out of Sight (1998)
Directed by Steven Soderbergh
Meet Jack Foley, a smooth criminal who bends the law and is determined to make one last heist. Karen Sisco is a federal marshal who chooses all the right moves … and all the wrong guys. Now they're willing to risk it all to find out if there's more between them than just the law.
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The whole encounter suggests that writer-director duo Glenn Ficarra and John Requa have studied not only how con men operate, but also the best of the genre (having already supplied one of its looniest entries with “I Love You Phillip Morris”), channeling the sultry, smooth-jazz vibe of Steven Soderbergh’s “Out of Sight” from the opening scene.
There are two ways of seeing "Focus": as a slick, derivative con man movie starring a typically debonair Will Smith that channels the labyrinthine schemes and accompanying jubilance found in everything from "Ocean's Eleven" to "Out of Sight" — or as the worst movie yet from Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, the writer-director pair behind "I Love You Philip Morris" and "Crazy, Stupid, Love."
(The way cinematographer Xavier Perez Grobet often shoots them—sitting opposite each other at a table in an opulent setting, bathed in sultry light—is reminiscent of the Steven Soderbergh classic “ Out of Sight ” in ways that surely can’t be a coincidence.)
Directors Glen Ficarra and John Requa are making a Steven Soderbergh’s Greatest Hits Mixtape here, borrowing Out of Sight‘s sexy frissions along with the Ocean’s knack for somehow making things suspenseful even though they’re going exactly according to plan.
One scene borrows brazenly from the crackling seduction scene in Steven Soderbergh’s Out of Sight, but here the sexiness is slightly synthetic, a corporate pastiche.
They desperately want Focus to have the cool, hip vibe of a movie like Ocean’s 11 or Out Of Sight, but the mixed tones destroy any chance of that happening.
The hip vibe and quirky characters seem less inspired by Sylvester Stallone than by Steven Soderbergh in his "Out of Sight" phase; the one-liners zing right along with the bullets in a playful pas de deux of mayhem, misdirection and mordant humor.
Clooney’s performance recalls his work in Soderbergh’s “Out of Sight,” while the movie’s pacing reminded me of Minghella’s “The Talented Mr. Ripley.”
He compares it to classics like Mr. & Mrs. Smith and Out of Sight…
Abela’s presence is begging for a movie with the titanic sparks found in the trunk in Out of Sight.
Even so, Black Bag is a new mode for the filmmaker, whose Haywire and Out of Sight both feel adjacent to his latest…
There’s the sexiness of Out of Sight…
…it’s hard not to wish that the newly prolific Soderbergh had woken up a bit to give the routine plot machinations in this London-set spy yarn the same spark that he’s brought to similar genre throwbacks in the past, among them 1998’s Out of Sight.
Director/cinematographer/editor Steven Soderbergh (Out of Sight) and screenwriter David Koepp (Jurassic Park) are very good at filmcraft.
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Finding each other on "Out Of Sight" is the best thing either of them has done.
With the divergent "Ocean's Eleven," "Traffic," "Erin Brockovich" and "Out of Sight" on his recent rsum, the writer-director now turns to a remake of the Russian science-fiction classic, directed by celebrated Soviet filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky in 1972.
Those who saw the stirrings of a Serious Actor in O Brother Where Art Thou and Out Of Sight will be pleased to see Clooney leap yet again to a new level of dexterity, poise, nuance and restraint.
The way the director shoots it all, catching the glances, the smiles, and the ugly moments as well, is reminiscent of the magic he brought to Out of Sight years ago.
The maverick director of Traffic and Out of Sight doesn't shy away from challenges, and even when he fails, you can sense him planning for his next run at the hill.
Out of Sight and Traffic contained a wide variety of film stocks and filters, while The Limey and The Underneath played around with time.
But that doesn’t necessarily preclude later affection, just as it didn’t for Jack Foley and Karen Sisco in Out of Sight.
Sam Rockwell voices Mr Wolf, their suave leader, channelling George Clooney in Ocean’s Eleven, George Clooney in Fantastic Mr. Fox and George Clooney in Out of Sight.
A children’s animated film which captures the snappy cool and dash of Steven Soderbergh’s Out of Sight and his Ocean’s Trilogy?
It starred Jennifer Lopez and isn’t “Out of Sight.”
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It’s a novel approach, one adjacent to that of Steven Soderbergh’s Out of Sight (1998) and Shane Black’s Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005), but distinctly pricklier and frostier.
There’s a standout sequence set in Detroit, of all places, doing as great a job with photographing that city as anything since Soderbergh’s “ Out of Sight .”