The Worst Film Ever

There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

This is in a sense a buddy-movie. Two ill-matched young men, one a cash-strapped aristo, the other a street-wise low-life thief. Their meeting is surreal in its oddity where-after their common quest to avoid a gruesome fate and become rich, creates at first a bond of extreme necessity, mired in almost unimaginable filth which later, mirroring their improving luck, lightens up as necessity gives way to the pursuit of stylish pleasures - and stylish crime. The noose as always awaits but far far better to be hanged dressed in the best finery, to the tears of young women of class and to be ready and able to exit with a memorable quip. In short to die, if it absolutely could not be avoided, stylishly and like gentlemen, not common felons.The extreme harshness of the law, the filth and squalor, the highest of fashion, shopping and vaunting ambition to enjoy the high life is a combination which existed in the 18th Century but disappeared in the Victorian era as legal reforms blunted the harshness and worthiness replaced swagger. Life became safer, fairer - and duller.

Sorry this was a woeful excuse for a film.. a plot line so holey it resembled a block of swiss cheese and a butch of characters who seemed to me to be utterly devoid of inter-personal relations.. Well except of course for Carlyle and Lee-Miller who i could have sworn were meant to be in love.. Unlike the union of Tyler and Miller who were for the most part, like the rest of the film, utterly unconvincing.. although the end product was uncaptivating and amusing for all the wrong reasons, the production values were high and deserve some acknowledgement..but unfortunately the end result was rubbish..what was everyone involved thinking..? they definitely should have packed up early on this one..

Usually, I like silly movies. "Plunkett & Macleane", however, is beyond silly; it falls into the range of absurd. The movie portrays two rogues (Jonny Lee Miller and Robert Carlyle) stealing from the rich and keeping the spoils until one falls for an aristocrat woman (Liv Tyler), throwing their plans into flux. I guess that maybe I'm not being fair to Carlyle (and to the UK film industry in general): after a film as great as "The Full Monty", I expect very high quality from Carlyle, and we can't always guarantee the best.Still, I will say that if you seek a purely entertaining flick, you might want to check this one out. While never reaching a laugh-out-loud level, it does elicit some humor. The main issue is that I've seen much better movies (especially from England), and so I would never recommend this one above most others. OK in a pinch, if there's nothing else to see.

I adore this film. The chemistry between the two leads Miller and Carlisle is amazing, they spark so well off of each other, creating an unlikely comedy Duo. Alan Cumming is hilarious, his enthusiasm for the role is clearly evident as he camps it up. The acting is superb and it is a genuinely amusing and touching film. Not the greatest film ever made, I'll admit, but it is a huge amount of fun, and I would recommend to those who enjoy other gritty Brit flicks. Includes some of the best British actors, including Michael Gambon so you can't go far wrong. Look out for cameos from David Walliams and Matt Lucas of Little Britain and Rock: Profile fame.