It's Caine's old-timer who provides the acting sparkle. Flawless may not be a perfect gem, but thanks to Caine it's definitely not paste.

| Nov 22, 2020

The bad pacing and strange infatuation with Moore smoking and wearing high heels results in a picture that lacks snap and labours slowly through the plot twists.

| Nov 1, 2018

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 7, 2011

A mopey character study only half-convincingly tricked out as a heist thriller.

| Apr 28, 2011

There's little by way of thrills. Still, as a caper with a great cast and clever premise, Flawless works, despite its, um, flaws.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 28, 2008

The problem is that as heist movies go this is about as captivating as watching someone dodge a bus fare. Almost everything about the film is second-rate: the direction, the plotting, the intrusive modernist production design.

| Original Score: 2/6 | Nov 28, 2008

Ignore the dull framing device and this is a watchable period crime drama. Pity about the dull, oft-used title though.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 28, 2008

Fatuous and soulless.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 28, 2008

You will need a very sweet tooth for this kind of thing, and, to be quite frank, the heist itself is not dramatised all that excitingly or clearly. But I quite like thrillers featuring enormous circular vault doors.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 28, 2008

Calling a diamond-heist movie Flawless is a valiant choice - especially when it's anything but. Suspense is essential to this genre, but here you couldn't care less what happens next.

| Nov 28, 2008

"Hang on lads, I've got a great idea..." said Michael Caine at the end of The Italian Job. Presumably he didn't mean waiting 40 years before pulling off a caper that wouldn't blow the bloody doors off a rabbit hutch.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 28, 2008

Diamonds aren't forever in this sluggish heist caper from Michael Radford that partners Michael Caine and Demi Moore for the first time since 1984's Blame It On Rio.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 28, 2008

They don't make thrillers like this any more, and for good reason.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 28, 2008

Like many Christmases, the whole thing leaves you stressed, exasperated and longing to leave for home.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 28, 2008

If ever a film title begged to be abused, this is it.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 28, 2008

Demi Moore will do as the ghost of Hollywood past, rattling her jewelled accessories like a drag-queen Jacob Marley.

| Nov 28, 2008

If only the plot was as sleek.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 28, 2008

A creaky, below-par Brit heist caper that belongs in a dusty vault itself.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 28, 2008

Yet for all the imperfections, Flawless is a film you find yourself rooting for. Heists involving a keen sense of history are pleasant to stumble across.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 28, 2008