Ffolkes-3 "Flawless" isn't your typical heist movie. There's much more to it than pure entertaiment. This is mainly due to leading characters' psychological background which is very well captured by Demi Moore and Michael Caine.Moore's Laura, a woman who has already achieved a lot in a male-dominant 1960s society, is well aware that even though she works more than her male colleagues, she will always be at a disadvantage. Caine's Hobbs, an elderly jaintor, one of those people whose presence always meets with indifference, has that kind of common man's sensitivity that makes him a far more better human being than other people. He sees the world around him in a much wider perspective. In fact, his motto is that 'it's a remarkable world out there...'... and many people don't realise that. A very subdued performance by Caine makes Hobbs a truly moving character.Michael Radford, a very talented director, somehow overlooked in the last decade, is definitely an actor's director. "Flawless" also proves his great sense of restraint. The usually presented as a very glamorous decade, the 1960s in "Flawless" are very stylish but not overly "shiny". Verdict: if you want something more than just a 'Catch me if you can' story, you'll love it.

SnoopyStyle A reporter comes to interview Laura Quinn (Demi Moore) as a woman manager in a man's world from the old days. Laura pulls out a giant diamond and retells the story of when she stole it back in 1960 London. Laura is frustrated as the lone female executive at London Diamond Corporation having been passed over yet again. Hobbs the janitor (Michael Caine) approaches her with a plan to steal some diamonds from the vault. When Hobbs takes the plan to an unexpected way, insurance investigator Finch (Lambert Wilson) is suspicious and Laura is trapped.Demi Moore always speaks deliberately with a smoky voice and I don't mind her British accent. Director Michael Radford has created a good sense of an era but the caper lacks a certain energy or power. It's a slow moving film where Michael Caine shows his brilliance. He is very convincing in every word he speaks. It's a little film that is well made enough. The caper is simplistic and has the feel of the truth.

blanche-2 "Flawless" from 2007 is filled with the "bling" of not only diamonds, but of Michael Caine and Demi Moore, the stars of this caper movie.The story starts in the present day with the elderly Laura giving an interview about female executives of the past. She shows the interviewer an absolutely huge diamond and tells her story.Her story begins in London at London Diamonds, the largest supplier of diamonds in the world, where Laura (Moore) has a good position but is constantly passed over for promotion into the upper echelon. One day, the janitor, Hobbs (Caine) tells her that she's going to be fired. She doesn't believe him but finds out by snooping around that it's true.Hobbs wants her to get the codes to the vault, which are changed weekly. He is then going to enter the vault, fill his thermos with small diamonds, which the company probably won't even miss, and leave. He is going to cut her in.The next day the executives, including Laura, are called down to the vault. I'll leave it at that, but that was a pretty big thermos.Really excellent film with a charming, subtle performance by Caine as Hobbs and Moore as the unflappable, cool, beautiful Laura, a career girl at a time when that was much more unusual than it is today.The story will keep you wondering and intrigued up to the very last frame. Highly recommended. I originally watched this because Nathaniel Parker of Inspector Lynley Mysteries has a role. I'm glad I did.

TxMike The movie opens with a scene of raw diamonds being dug out of mud, selected, cut, polished, then mounted for the finger of a lucky lady. That is the subject of the movie, the world-wide diamond industry, and one company, London Diamonds that controls the diamond supply for most of the world.After this introduction we see Demi Moore as Laura in present time, made up to look like a 90-something lady. She is meeting with a 20-something feature writer who wants to know how she broke into management, a pioneer of sorts for women in that industry. She presents a very large, "flawless" diamond, that she says the "stole from the company" and "this is the first time in 40 years I have been in this city as a free woman." But most of the story takes place in the early 1960s, as Laura has been with the company for 15 years, an American educated in England and with a brilliant mind. But the good-old-boy network kept passing her by for promotions. So the long time janitor, Michael Caine as Hobbs, comes to recognize her dissatisfaction and tries to enlist her help, to pull off a heist from the vault. She is reluctant but soon gives in.The opening scene tells us a heist did occur, it leads us to believe Laura spent time in prison, but not all is as it seems. The story unfolds deliberately, and is very interesting. Well worth a watch.SPOILERS: Laura's job is to steal the safe code, which she does at an evening cocktail party at the CEO's mansion. But instead of stealing just a few million worth of diamonds, Hobbs manages to steal all of them, very large quantities of raw and rare cut specimens. Laura is puzzled, but eventually figures out he put them down a drain, and she found them in the sewer below the street. However too late to prevent a ransom being paid to his numbered Swiss account by the company that insured London Diamonds. His motive was to ruin the head of the insurance company who, years earlier had been responsible for denying private insurance coverage for his sick wife who died of cancer that could have been treated. He also sent 100 Million pounds to Laura's account, and it took her 40 years to give it away, to various charitable causes. But she kept the perfect diamond she found that night in the sewer along with the other diamonds. She just didn't tell about this one. Hobbs disappeared all those years ago and was never heard from again.