Thieves Quartet

I found it in my library after ten years of search, I could not remind the title...It is a real must see, with the kind of topic and character symphony as we had for THINGS TO DO IN DENVER....made three years later. The tale of a bunch of losers, punks for whom we can feel most empathy, who are preparing a caper. I repeat, I had the same feeling with the Gary Fleder's best film. Plus here you have a jazz score which emphasizes the tension, suspense. This is a gloomy, desperate story, as we could have found in the seventies. It is a shame that such gems are so rare, so hard to find; it was a pure delight to watch this movie again.

Art (Joe Guastaferro) is an almost fifty years old and his unique possession is a bar. He gathers the ex-prisoners Jimmy (Phillip Van Lear) and Mike (Lames `Ike' Eichling) with his mate Jessica (Michele Cole) and presents a very well planned strategy for kidnapping the daughter of a millionaire. The plan works perfectly and while waiting for the ransom in the border of Canada, ready to go to Rio de Janeiro, an incident happens with Jessica plus a betrayal in the group. This is a surprisingly good low budget movie about betrayal in the same line of `Reservoir Dog'. The direction and performance of these unknown actors and actresses make the story very credible. In my opinion, there are six (6) unfair persons (off thirteen) - five (5) voted one and one (1) voted two - that made this underrated evaluation in IMDB. The other two (2) voted ten, two (2) voted eight, one (1) voted seven and two (2) voted six. Unfortunately this is not a popular film from 1994 (I myself like to watch this type of movie - sometimes we find very good ones) and the probability of improving this average is not good. This is the movie number 703 that I have watched along 2003, and I highly recommend it for viewers that like, for example, Quentin Tarantino's ones or a crude crime story. My vote is seven.

Thieves Quartet is a very well directed piece, one that is compelling to watch. As someone who truly enjoys jazz music, I really enjoyed how the music was woven into the film. Films like this, that don't (or didn't) have extraordinary advertising $$'s backing it, often get overlooked, but I wouldn't overlook this one.

Art (Joe Guastaferro) is an almost fifty years old and his unique possession is a bar. He gathers the ex-prisoners Jimmy (Phillip Van Lear) and Mike (Lames `Ike' Eichling) with his mate Jessica (Michele Cole) and presents a very well planned strategy for kidnapping the daughter of a millionaire. The plan works perfectly and while waiting for the ransom in the border of Canada, ready to go to Rio de Janeiro, an incident happens with Jessica plus a betrayal in the group. This is a surprisingly good low budget movie about betrayal in the same line of `Reservoir Dog'. The direction and performance of these unknown actors and actresses make the story very credible. This is the movie number 703 that I have watched along 2003, and I highly recommend it for viewers that like, for example, Quentin Tarantino's ones or a crude crime story. The distribution of votes is very strange and unusual. My vote is seven.