Flawless

Heist gone haywire

By Laura Dargus

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Flawless suffers greatly from screenwriting that's absolute tripe, Demi Moore's strained acting, and a paradoxical feminist bent. Rather than a "clever diamond-heist thriller set in swinging 1960s London," as it's plugged on the film's website, you get one big emotional softie in the end.

Laura Quinn (Moore) is a 38-year-old, unmarried (gasp!) manager at London Diamond. As the only female executive, she's hit the proverbial glass ceiling, having been passed on for promotion a handful of times already. Mr. Hobbs (Michael Caine) is the nighttime janitor that sees she always works late and is the first to arrive in the morning. Though her frustration is palatable, we're to believe that little can be done due to societal constraints. Hobbs approaches her about taking what's theirs from the company that's exploited them for years, but her loyalty to the corporation stops her from getting involved—at first.

From the point of their plan's execution, however, things start falling apart. Quinn is a dumbass; she wavers from following through constantly. And, the very unwed, available status that earns her pity in a chauvinist world is what eventually ends up getting her off in the end—and we're not talking in the exciting sexual sense either. No, what appears to be the moral of this ever suspenseful story about crime and intrigue is that nothing is comparable to family and charity.

Gag me.

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