IMDb plot summary: An extremely volatile and dangerous Englishman goes to Los Angeles to find the man he considers responsible for his daughter's death.
Directed by Steven Soderbergh. Starring Terence Stamp, Peter Fonda, and Lesley Ann Warren.
The Limey is a Stephen Soderbergh movie starring Terrence stamp as a British man who travels to the US to find out what really happened to his daughter and exact revenge along the way as needed. This kind of story is a very familiar one among crime movies, where defending the defenseless women in their lives is frequently the motivation for a lot of male crime movie protagonists. While I like Soderbergh as a director in general, this movie just doesn't draw me in. It's like the most textbook example of how to play out these tropes in the exact expected way. That's not a bad thing necessarily -- Soderbergh continues to be a good director who makes good use of the visuals and the pacing of his films -- but there's nothing in here that makes me think or set up and pay attention in any way. If this is a genre you really are connected to this is a solid entry, but if you're looking for something a little bit more out of the box, this one isn't it.
How it entered my Flickchart:
The Limey < Bad Education
The Limey > Pepito and the Magic Lamp
The Limey < Adam
The Limey > The Friends of Eddie Coyle
The Limey < Murphy's War
The Limey < Neighbors (1920)
The Limey < The Lost Weekend
The Limey < The Adjustment Bureau
The Limey > Beach Party
The Limey < Paradise
The Limey < Immortal Beloved
The Limey > The 101-Year-Old Man Who Skipped Out on the Bill and Disappeared
Final spot: #2596 out of 3789 so far, or 31%.
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