Last night was a night of diamonds, both flawed and shining. I started with Night Train , figuring that with Danny Glover and Steve Zahn it has to be at least mildly entertaining. Nope. The movie looked incredibly low-budget, like a student film made on $10K, but worse. I made it about a half hour in before I could not ignore the waste-of-time feeling and made the executive decision to turn it off (which is a big deal for me, I have a habit of watching even pretty terrible movies all the way through). Three strangers on a train conspire to steal diamonds and dispose of a dead body? Not as interesting as you might think.
Enter Flawless, with Michael Caine and Demi Moore. Another diamond heist movie, but this one not only watchable but in fact rather enjoyable. A janitor and a manager each have their own motives to steal diamonds from the vault at the London Diamond Corporation. Your typical "I'm-going-to-steal-something,-but-how?" fare, with the reveal of how it was done saved for the end. And Michael Caine is just such a solid actor, subtle and charming.
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