Pertaining To Flawless

Laura (Demi Moore), a female employee in the all-male world of the 1960s London Diamond Corporation, is just about at the end of her rope. Then the jolly night janitor, Hobbs (Michael Caine), comes to her with a proposal: Help him steal enough diamonds from the London Diamond's vault to fill a thermos. Laura refuses at first. Then she discovers she is about to be fired - and decides to wreak some revenge on the ungrateful corporation that wants to toss her aside.

This movie is, admittedly, a bit slow in the beginning. Laura struggles a long time with what she wants to do, and with the question of whether she is happy or not. This is all rather boring because anyone can see that 1) she wants to rob London Diamond and 2) she is not happy at all.

But once the heist begins, the action really picks up - or should I say the questions become more interesting? Something completely takes Laura by surprise, and suddenly she has to walk a delicate line between Hobbs and a detective named Finch (Lambert Wilson).

Speaking of Finch, I rather liked his character. There aren't many likeable characters, since most of them are rather too rich and inconsiderate of others (there's a line describing a character that goes something like this: "He paid for the bullets and the coffins"). But Finch seems to take his job seriously enough, and he's a bit sharper than Laura gives him credit for.

However, my favorite part of the movie was Laura. In the first place, Demi Moore played her very well. Her American/British accent was a bit annoying at first, but then it was revealed that she is an American who has lived in Britain for the last fifteen years or so, making her funny little accent a lot more believable. Secondly, I really like her idea of feminism. More on that in a spoiler post.

My Rating: T (language (including one F word), very mild sexual content)