The Opportunists

WEll, i was looking forward to watching this movie, as i am a huge walken fan. After watching this movie, my first reaction to my friend who watched it with me was.. wow that really sucked.. now, .. don't get me wrong, this movie doesn't fail because of the people in the movie, its just the overall style of the movie.. now, I'm a huge fan of bringing the least hollywood into a movie, but this movie is a bit dry.

I felt there was a few strong points to this film, such as not showing silly things as a romance between the daughter and the housemate ( which i'm still uncertain actually who he is ) , and another good job in this film is over-all PLOT... although, again i'll go back again and make note of how the style of this movie, HAS GREAT POTENTIAL, but just fails.

After thinking about this movie more, I would recommend seeing it once, but this is not a movie with high replay value, although who knows.. If walken was not in this movie for sure it would be alot worse..

I think the writer/director's aim was to make a simple crime story (on a low budget) that had a very credible and believable feel - presenting characters that seem to come from any local neighborhood. At this the movie succeeds.

The scenes and dialogue are carefully crafted and the film as a whole is very well cast and acted. I liked Walken's understated performance. It's consistent with the other actors. Also, it seems more natural and devoid of the self-acknowledging flippancy found in some of his other work.

The movie is low-key, and one can probably see the end coming. Yet someone looking for a caper film without contrived suspense or melodrama - and a little bit of a character study - will find this rewarding.

Lethargic and rather predictable caper from writer-director Myles Connell. After a distant cousin comes to stay with him, former safecracker Christopher Walken is lured into taking one more assignment. Despite a strong cast and interesting elements, this half-serious heist is finally too familiar to make much of an impact. Walken offers up another intriguing character. His safecracker has not come far in the last decade: he has to rent a fancy car as a ruse; his cousin is a crafty but green accomplice; and the two security guards in on the scheme are schnooks. Mildly enjoyable, and almost worth-seeing for Walken and also for Cyndi Lauper (of all people), very attractive as a no-nonsense bar-proprietress. ** from ****

This movie, reminiscent of 'Palookaville', had the kind of humor that is available to a film that does not set out to be exclusively a comedy.

The incidental characters, such as Mort Stein, were well-drawn and memorable.

Extremely credible dialog.

This is probably the most down-to-earth movie I have ever seen. There´s is absolutely nothing that happened in this movie that couldn´t have happened to you or me. Yet, still the film has a solid and interesting dialog, also very down-to-earth.

It took a while to swallow the feeling I got just after the movie. My first thought was: "Oh no, what a week story and what a boring dialog". But after a while I thought the exact opposite. This movie was definitely better than what I first realized.

6+ out of 10, is my rating.