Ordinary Decent Criminal

A film review by Christopher Null - Copyright © 2002 Filmcritic.com

I can only imagine one thing worse than Kevin Spacey trying on an Irish accent, and that's sultry Linda Fiorentino doing the same thing.

Accents are hardly the biggest problem with this movie, though. It's a dull-as-a-Nerf-ball script that makes Ordinary Decent Criminal far less than ordinary. It's almost painful sitting through its rote heist vignettes and endless expository scenes in between them. A bunch of IRA rhetoric doesn't add anything to Spacey's cryptic criminal, who just wants to help out his family while avoiding a fearsome prosecutor.

Merits very little consideration.

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Rating

1.5 out of 5 Stars

Cast and Crew

  • Director: Thaddeus O'Sullivan
  • Producer: Jonathan Cavendish
  • Screenwriter: Gerard Stembridge
  • Stars: Kevin Spacey, Linda Fiorentino, Peter Mullan, Stephen Dillane, Helen Baxendale
  • MPAA Rating: R