Holly_Martens

"The Sting" is high on my personal list of movies that I can watch anytime, anywhere, and at any point in the movie! Of course, it's more fun to catch it from the opening credits, but it's just SO good, it really doesn't matter. The cast, the score, the script, the direction; everything mixes perfectly. I saw it in the theater when it came out and have loved it ever since, and I'm not even a big fan of Redford or of Newman. We need another "Sting" type film for this decade...we've got enough hard times to go around. If you haven't seen it...and I can't imagine that, unless you're in elementary school...rent it, buy it, con it off of your best friend.

I would challenge any serious film lover to view this movie and not have a very strong opinion of it. My own opinion is that it's one of the best films ever made, period. The story is harrowing, the score is so haunting you'll never forget it, and you'll think about scenes from it years later. Once you viewed it, most other domestic stuff won't even make it into the ballpark with it, much less compare with it. It's a masterpiece, plain and simple. This is real film making.

A 2-ton stinker of a movie, only worth watching to see Jon Voight getting his paycheck for attempting a heavy Spanish accent as the Paraguayan(!) snake hunter, Sarone. The "snake" is TOO computer-generated to be very scary, but the acting is certainly frightening! I will give 4/5 stars to JLo's ample derriere, though. I don't think the anaconda could have swallowed her.