Ordinary Decent Criminal Movie Review 1999

Lightweight caper flick loosely based on the life of Irish thief Martin Cahill was shot in 1998 but only recently received limited runs abroad. Spacey is Michael Lynch, a self-styled blue collar criminal who enjoys high-profile heists and making the local cops look bad. When he steals a Caravaggio painting worth $45 million, he gets caught up with the IRA and an obsessive cop (Dillane) bent on catching him. Passes the time pleasantly enough, with a jovial performance by Spacey, but John Boorman's "The General" tells this story better.

Distribution

Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91521-1120, Toll-free: 800-723-4763, URL: http://www.bvhe.com

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 90 minutes.
Originally from Irish, British.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Dublin, Heists: Art, Ireland

Screenplay

Gerard Stembridge

Cast

Kevin Spacey, Linda Fiorentino, Helen Baxendale, Stephen (Dillon) Dillane, Peter Mullan, Patrick Malahide, Gerard McSorley, Colin Farrell

Cinematography

Andrew Dunn

Director

Thaddeus O'Sullivan

Music

Damon Albarn