Out of Sight

Notorious bank robber Jack Foley plans to make one last job and then retire and live the happy days. After a tumultuous escape from a maximum security prison his plans become slightly altered. During the escape the young, beautiful FBI-agent Karen Sisco happens to be in the way. Jack kidnaps her, and when they shortly thereafter part ways they can not stop thinking of each other. Karen takes up the trai I after Jack hoping to arrest him and thereby see him again.
Out of Sight is based on the book by Elmore Leonard. Several of Leonard's books have been made into movies. Most recently on the Swed ish screen we cou Id see Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown (which is based on the book Rum Punch) and Get Shortydirected by Barry Sonnenfeld.
Soderbergh manages to, in his filming of Leonard; keep the writer's unmistakable dialogue, at the same time roughly hardboiled and with well oiled flow. To this the director has added his own, highly distinctive visual language. The story exists on several different levels of time, where the audience are thrown between Karen's and Jack's intensive cat- and mouseplay in the current time and flashbacks from
Jack's earlier less successful career as
a bank robber, as well as episodes from inside the prison walls. The result is a tense and well narrated thriller, where the violent sequences are constantly contrasted by the absurd comic elements.
The lead characters are played by George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez, who both portray their characters with smoldering passion combined with a cool relaxed attitude. The story is also spiced up by a gaudy cast of supporting characters, played by some Hollywood's most popular actors.
OLA BLOMQVIST

Premiärstatus
Svensk premiär: Medverkande
George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez,Jim Marlow: Producent
Danny DeVito: Manus
Scott Frank: Foto
Elliot Davis: Musik
David Holmes: Talat språk
English