Customer Reviews
Elegant, Amusing, Entertaining - By: Douglas P. Murphy, 01 Dec 2008 
I loved this movie. Even though the 1968 movie with Steve McQueen as Thomas Crown & Faye Dunaway as Vicki Anderson (the Catherine Banning characaterin this version)was great, I enjoyed this one more. Faye Dunaway appears as the psychiatristin this version. Pierce Brosnan plays the Thomas Crown character with the right amount of style & mischievousness & with his cool, calculating reserve makes a good counterpart to Rene Russo's exuberant but equally intelligent insurance investigator (Catherine Banning). The repartee between her & Crown & Detective McCann (Dennis Leary) provides a lot of the energy for the movie. Brosnan & Russo manage to create a strong sexual & romantic tension as well. Scenes of sailing & eventsin Martinique provide some pleasing visual footage. Crown steals Monet's painting, San Georgio Maggiore At Dusk, worth $100,000,000 & the movie takes off from there.
Fun and entertaining - By: TS, 20 Sep 2008 Lost count how many times I've watched this over the years but it remains a really entertaining film combining great cinematic scenery, characterisation & plot. It is a fine remake of a classic & Brosnan's performance is especially good. He plays Thomas Crown brilliantly & certainly keeps the determined Rene Russo on her toes!
What makes the film for me is the art & the detectives, who always seem to be second guessing Crown's next move. Even more brilliant is the unforgettable museum scene near the end. A fine film that can be revisited many times.
My favourite film ever, always will be! - By: Bec, 12 Aug 2008 I have no doubts that this will forever be my favourite film. The story is spot on, the characters perfect & Pierce Brosnan at his absolute best. I can't think of a better way to spend a few hoursin front of the TV.
A good remake - By: Annabel Gaskell, 13 Apr 2008 
The critics have been divided over this film. Was the original film a great film? Why bother to remake it? Is the remake better?
As romantic crime capers go, this version starring Pierce Brosnan & Rene Russo is really entertaining. The two stars definitely have chemistry, & the film looks brilliant & stylish. Dennis Leary as the cop gives good support, & the heist & its reversal sequences are imaginatively realised. The soundtrack pays homage too; but the inclusion of snippets of the original's Oscar-winning song "Windmills of your mind" sung by Sting is overegging it a bit.
My main criticism is of a slow middle; also I felt casting Faye Dunaway (who originally played the Russo part) as Crown's therapist was unnecessary.
So is it any better ? The original had Steve McQueen cast against type; now we have Brosnanin the type of role he's very comfortablein ... I adore them both! The original had that chess scene! The remake doesn't attempt to emulate it, having a suitably steamy love scene instead. The original's split screen sequences were groundbreakingin 1967, but slightly annoying now. Personally I prefer the remake - but I'll still watch Steven McQueen any day too!
Yeah it was fine, but I'd still rather watch the original - By: Lou Knee, 02 Oct 2007 
It has to be debatable whether this film needed a remake, because the original is still very watchablein its own right, if a bit of an aquired taste, with its emphasis on style & glamour. But I suppose it was inevitable, seeing that many far less stylish movies had already had the treatment, & the trend of remaking films just goes on. A picture famous for its style over substance feel, & unashamedly glamorous setting & theme, it gets a pretty good remake here, but for me, it isn't perfect. I may have found Faye Dunnaway irritatingin the original, but she is no where as irritating as the Actressin the remake. I know that character is supposed to be a no nonsense, hard edged female executive/insurance agent with her fair shair of alure, but this new version just left me cold, so much so, that I just couldn't see what Crown would have liked about her. Brosnan, however was a natural choice to cover McQueen's role, & he does it with his usual winning charm. This film was not as stylish as the original though, it was slick, & very glossy, but did not have the 'international' sort of panache or the airy charisma which shone through the original. It seems harder edged, morein tune with the hustle & bustle & sheer pace of modern life, & perhaps its materialism, but lacks the artiness of the original, the laid back enjoy the moment feel which was very late 1960s-this film is its more streetwise, hyperactive offspring. The heist & action sequences are very well filmed & make the movie enjoyable, but I'm still struggling to see the point of a remake at all.
