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Summary: Average movie. A bit slow and predictible.
Review: The movie was ok. The acting was acceptable with some exceptional moments by Norton. The major problems I had were with the speed of the film. It dragged except for the very end and the end was predictable. Realistically, I would have been happy renting this movie in a couple months. If you are a real Norton/De Niro fan, you may find it worth the $8 to get in the door, otherwise wait for the video because the film is not worth seeing in the theater.
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Summary: Apparently, "The Score" is 3-0 in favor of the actors
Review: Audiences receive the 1-2-3 punch of three generations of terrific actors. Brando...De Niro...Norton. The Godfather, The Taxi Driver, and the...uh...Fight Club guy. Actually, I'm an admirer of Edward Norton's and of course, you can't go wrong with the other two (what were their names again?). Seriously, this is a good film. While it moves a bit slow, the movie pays off well at the end. All in all, a very satisfying summer film. Well acted, beautifully shot, well edited, and well directed. This movie will have you on the edge of your seat the last twenty minutes. So sit back and enjoy...not at your computer! In the theater! Geez...what did you think I meant?
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Summary: Don't play the game if you ain't gonna score...
Review: ...in this case, as an entertaining film & story. This project misses the mark big time. I agree with others that wrote about the film having an unfinished feel to it. I'm a fan of DeNiro but he was definitely on lithium throughout production. Norton is the highlight, but doesn't [take]the show because there isn't one. You get the feeling you're watching the "dailies". Frank Oz should stick to light-hearted comedies.Elegant Angela Basset is wasted in the three measly unimportant scenes she's in (obviously a DeNiro cast choice since everyone knows he's always preferred black women). Two stars for both of Norton's characters. Basset should go back to finding her career groove, and if this is the type of character DeNiro is comfortable in playing, he is quickly joining Jack Nicholson in simply not trying anymore. It's pretty much a "[copy]" of the great Michael Mann film "Thief". I dare you to watch that and see the blatant comparisons.
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Summary: A Great Heist Flick
Review: Nick Wells (Robert DeNiro) is a master thief with a lot of discipline and is very versatile in any situation. Nick is planning on retiring soon but his close friend, Max (Marlon Brando) talks Nick into taking part in a very big gamble with a large payoff. Nick is sent into this job which breaks his key rules. 1."Always work alone" 2."Never work in the town you live in." Nick will have to partner up with Jack Teller (Edward Norton), a rookie thief who thought up this risky heist and he will also have to work near his own home. This is simply an exciting and suspenseful heist movie that contains three generations of actors. Each with powerhouse performances. The film does very well at giving the characters background history/ background stories and tying them into the main film. Sure the story of an impossible theft may sound familiar but that doesn't mean the movie can't be good. The movies which are good we remember and those which aren't we forget. The Score is one of the films to be remembered, it is presented in a new and fresh way and the initial heist is very creative. It is very gripping and a smart film. Edward Norton puts on an amazing performance in the powerful drama American History X and this is another one of his great onscreen performances. The chemistry between the actors is very good and Director Frank Oz does a good job too. (Frank Oz is also a puppeteer who controls Yoda in the Star Wars series.)
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Summary: Edward Norton "Scores" Big Time
Review: Edward Norton's sensational performance which has him masquerading as a mentally challenegd janitor in order to pull off a robbery makes what could have been just another "heist" movie into one of the coolest movies this year to date... Robert De Niro, looking bored and slightly dissapated, sleepwalks his way through another role...what happened to the actor who gave us Travis Bickle, Runpert Pupkin and Jake La Motta? How's Brando? As big as a house but he can still act rings around the world! Edward Norton is what De Niro was 20 years ago!
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Summary: A safe movie about guys cracking safes
Review: Safe, because the movie takes no risks. In its defense, at least it never goes awry, staying true to its own tone throughout. Quiet, a little slow, predictable, but still enjoyable. DeNiro's "Heat" character minus the Shakesperean tragedy. The trailer truly worked, the movie only functioned. I give it 3.5 out of 5 stars, mostly for the winning star combination of DeNiro and Norton. As for Brando, his lisp is truly distracting. Paint-by-numbers plot as interpreted by modern Picassos. The results are only so-so, but the film is still worth a see.
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Summary: The Score
Review: The movie starts a some what slow but moves into high gear. Get action and suspense. Great Acting by both DeNiro/ Ed Norton. Great acting!!
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Summary: Eh, but still good, somehow
Review: Big fan of Ed Norton (Fight Club was brilliant) and Bobby De Niro (want to know why he did Meet the Parents, though.) Anywho, De Niro is Nick, a veteran safe cracker who hits a party in mid-swing and makes a near clean getaway. He returns to Montreal, his home now, to his jazz club and flight attendant girlfriend Diane played by Anglea Bassett (if you're a fan of hers, get your fix early because she pulls a disappearing act of her own the whole middle act.) Nick's boss, I guess, is Marlon Brando's Max, who also happens to be the comic relief. He's got this big job, the mother of all scores (for them anyway) but it requires them to do it in their own town, something which sets Nick off but good. He's eventually convinced by Max and his young friend Jack (Norton) who has taken up a job at Montreal's customs house (where the loot is) under the alias of Brian, a mentally disabled assistant janitor. The middle act is all about how they intend to rob the customs house and steal this jewel-encrusted scepter that can be sold for a large bit of cash. The end, if you've payed any attention to the trailer is quite predictable, but then again you get the feeling through the entire movie that it could really be no other way ... so in it's own sense it is satisfying. Catch it at a matinee, because it's not worth a full price ticket (what movie has been, lately) but it's still nice to see on the big screen. And as it turns out, Yoda ain't a bad director.
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Summary: The best film this year so far!
Review: You can't loose with such brilliant acting. Edward Norton shows his outstanding capability playing two roles. One, being a young show off criminal expert who knows he's ready for anything that comes his way, and the other a slow janitor that he uses as an act to scope out the area on the big score. Which he plays so well you'll start to feel sorry for him just as if he really was mentally disabled. While Robert De Niro plays his criminal role with a little slice of lemon sparking his character one step up from your average jewel thief. And Marlon Brando's talent takes his character back and forth from a straight shooting serious to often times a comedic old time criminal. Not only was "The Score" acted by a triple dose of film talent, it was also written by a nice trio of screen writers: Kario Salem (Don King: Only in America), Lem Dobbs (The Limey), and Scott Marshall Smith (Men of Honor). They really took great characters and were able give them interesting motives which really is what makes this film so much different than other jewel theif type movies. With the directing of Frank Oz giving us a good jazzy sound and a dark feeling sets the overall tone perfectly.
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Summary: I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.
Review: I wonder if this was written in the same amount of time it takes to watch. The actors may not have been given any direction at all. It seemed like I was watching an unfinished version, as if they weren't done editing the film and scoring the music. The story takes a couple turns, but it's about as suspenseful as a ferris wheel. I love De Niro and Tyler Durden, but honestly, unless you have nothing else to waste your time and money on, don't bother with The Score.
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