sddavis63 Generally speaking, I like Morgan Freeman, and in all honesty I guess he was OK in this. There's nothing in his performance as Keith Ripley that I could really criticize. Ripley is a professional jewel thief, who's planning to pull off the heist of the century; maybe of all time: stealing two Faberge eggs worth $20 million each from a New York City jewel dealer. In order to help him with that, he recruits a partner - Gabriel Martin (Antonio Banderas.) Banderas isn't really my favourite actor, but like Freeman, he does well enough in the role. The problem here wasn't the performances of the two leads. It was the material. It was, in short, dreadful.In the first few scenes of the movie you get a sense that this movie either wants to be a comedic sort of "heist" story or an action thriller. There are elements of both involved in those first few scenes. Or, maybe it's going to try to combine the two. I was actually intrigued after about 10 minutes to see which of those three options was going to be taken. And then - it took none of the three. After teasing us for those few minutes with what might have made a good movie, it just became a pretty standard, every day heist movie, with the Russian mafia thrown in for good measure, and a beautiful girl (Alex, played by Radha Mitchell) being considered necessary apparently.From about that 10 minute point on, I was honestly lost. I mean, not in terms of the story - that was clear enough; these guys want to steal the Faberge eggs, and Gabriel has the hots for Alex, who happens to be Ripley's god-daughter, and the daughter of one of the Russian mobster- types, while all the while the NYPD are trying to nail Ripley, even though they've been told by the FBI not to nail Ripley ... Did I say that was clear? OK. I exaggerated a bit. Truthfully, though, I wasn't really lost. I was bored. Stupefied. For most of the movie I was wondering why an accomplished actor like Morgan Freeman would take on a role in a movie like this?Then, as the end approaches, it's almost as if everybody who had anything to do with this (especially, I guess, the writers who produced the script) suddenly realized that they had quite a turkey on their hands - and so all of a sudden we're thrown twist after twist after twist, except that by this time I wasn't that interested in trying to keep track of all the twists, because I had just simply stopped caring. (2/10)

seanhimdb This is only here to help push down the overall rating of this time waster. I don't think it made the cinemas, I'd have been very grumpy if I'd wasted an outing to a cinema to see it. Renting it on cheap-night was bad enough. Made with 100% recycled material. No acting, writing, or directing talent was exercised in this production. The presence of well known actors is merely a marketing device, any resemblance to actual professional quality acting, writing, direction or editing is entirely coincidental, and completely undetectable.It should have starred Steven Segal. Then I'd have known at once to avoid it.Oh, and the spoiler? What's with naming the lead character "Ripley"? A Very Untalented Mr Ripley this one was, so why the name? Trying to hitch a subliminal ride on good movies with the same character name? ("Oh, a new Ripley movie.. sounds good!")

Supreme Creature Like a B movie with most absurd scenario. In this movie was a lot of scenes not connected to each other. Written by different persons or children. Ex. non movie related old people sex scenes, old man hackers, stupid guards, impenetrable vault you can get in less than 20 min., absurd get in method, even absurder get out method. Bad Russian language even for sides. Freeman twisted plan was actually really stupid reminded me situation where you throw a bomb on yourself and then try to survive.All thru movie a was hoping it would be over soon. I'm disappointed Banderas and Freeman agreed to participate in this movie. Have some dignity men.

kosmasp ... by the actors that is. Still the movie suffers especially if you have seen more than 1 or 2 movies. Heist movies that try to be tricky have to be especially careful. Or especially good, extraordinary even to really stay with you. And despite the fact, that you have Morgan Freeman and Antonio Banderas in this one, it never really touches genius level.You might not guess every little detail (or maybe you do?), but even so the conclusion isn't really satisfying. It's still a fun ride though and you have a few nice touches. It's nicely filmed and everyone is trying their best. I've seen much worse ... but as stated above, I've seen better movies too.