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	• The Score [VHS] Robert De Niro, Edward Norton Paramount, 2001 average customer review:based on 185 reviews view larger image
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The Score

Nick Wells, a professional criminal, decides to leave the business for good, since he nearly got caught on his last job. His plan is to live in peace with his girl Diane, running his Montreal jazz club NYC. Soon Max, his good friend and financial partner in the illegal affairs, comes along with an offer Nick can't refuse: A historical and priceless French sceptre has been discovered while being smuggled into the country. It is now under massive surveillance in the Montreal Customs House, and soon to be returned to France. Nick has to team up with Max' man inside, the young, talented and aggressive thief Jackie Teller to get the precious item, and suffer no more financial problems ever. Only one question remains: Who will trick whom out of their share? The Score seems to start off slow for some, but speed up. It shows how DeNiro's character lives his life and his life is essential to the plot. Norton's performance is doubly magnificent. Brando delivers a number of scenes that are right on key and provides some comic relief that fits nicely. Overall a really good movie that will leave you with your jaw on the floor.

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Great

In The Score, Robert DeNiro plays a jazz club owner, Nick, who sides as a safe cracker in Montrial. He is cautious, non-violent, subtle and smart. He wants to retire, and is set up by his fence, Marlon Brando, on one last job. But the job is close to home, something Nick has vowed never to do.

Ed Norton plays the guy who Brando wants Nick to partner with. Young and cocky, he poses as a handicaped, mentally-slow janitor at the customs house the three bandits are trying to rob. There is the expected antaginism between the young buck and the old master, and the job gets more complicated. Eventually, through twists and turns, one outsmarts the other.

This is a great thriller: tight and compact and dead on point. Norton is great as usual, and DeNiro makes a great choice by downplaying the criminal cleches of his character. Nick is sophisticated and complex and not nessasarly motivated by the thrill of the chase that most robbers are.
He runs a successful bussiness and, aside from being a robber, seems like a down to earth guy--not the type that would steel for the rush. It is great to wonder what is actually driving him to take such risks.

The film also gets into some of the technical aspects of safe cracking, and shows how hard it is to be a theif. This adds a lot of texture to The Score.

I do have one gripe with this film: I have Cerebal Palsy, and object to the way Norton portays his disabled alter-ego as the cute, dull muppet that everyone loves and babys. Even in our day and age, the public is still woefully ignorant about physical disabilites; think about racial stereotypes around 1955, and it is comperible. People still equate physical limits with intellectual ones. I am not politcally correct and I don't mind good satire, or even a negative portrayal of a disabled person. But socially, we have not evolved to the point where people have shed their stereotypes of people with disabilities. We can't, yet, afford to have this kind of cleche out there without counterpoint. Plus, it would have been more interesting to have Norton make his disguise persona disabled but smart, and then have him turn the tables at the end.

That said, this is a great film: I own it and am not about to throw it away, and I'd reccomended it on a asthetic basis if not a social one.

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Good movie

This is a good movie for anyone who likes a mystery, heist, get-away flick. DeNiro and Norton are great together, though Angela Bassett kinda threw me for a loop (I would've liked to have seen in her in a bigger and more engaging role, rather than a side character). What's best about this film is that it keeps you guessing to the very end. Just when you think it's over and you have it all figured out, something else happens. Probably not the best choice if you just want non-stop action with no plot line. You actually have to pay attention and work for this movie--the planning and precision of the plot (and the plot itself), and the interaction of the characters makes for an enjoyable movie.

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SOPHISTICATED

MUST SEE, GOTTA GET IT FOR YOUR COLLECTION.

I HAVE PURCHASED 5 OF THESE DVDS AS GIFTS OVER THE YEARS. OKAY, I HAD TO BUY ANOTHER ONE BECAUSE SOMEONE 'BORROWED' MINE AND NEVER RETURNED IT, AS IF I COULD BLAME THEM. I STILL HAVE TWO VHS AVAILABLE. YES, IT IS JUST THAT GOOD.

ROBERT DE NIRO, EDWARD NORTON, MARLON BRANDO AND ANGELA BASSETT MADE THIS MOVIE CREDIBLE AND IT WAS FULL OF SUSPENSE AND BREATHTAKING, TEDIOUS MOMENTS WHEN THE BIG HEIST CAME.

YOU WILL WATCH IT MORE THAN ONCE, JUST FOR CLARITY AND YOU WILL STILL SEE SOMETHING YOU MISSED. WITHOUT TELLING ALL, I CAN SAY THAT IT IS A MUST SEE.

YEAH!!

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Robert De Niro plays a weary thief tempted by wily old associate Marlon Brando into, yes, one last job, a plan to rob a priceless scepter from Montreal's Customs House. Director Frank Oz's heist thriller partners De Niro with hotshot upstart Edward Norton, and you'd have to be determinedly grumpy not to get half a kick out of Brando, DeNiro, and Norton--more than holding his own--coolly bouncing off one another in a Method paradise. Brando may be enormous and breathing heavily with every move, but his technique is as agile as it ever was; he still seems spontaneously clever. Oz doesn't have the most crackling visual style in the world, as the film is far too smooth for tension, and keeps tapping Howard Shore's music score to do most of the work in that department; the divine Angela Bassett is once again totally wasted in a 10-minute throwaway role as De Niro's girlfriend. The Score isn't anything new, and there isn't a single surprise, but if you're into this sort of thing you do respond to its polished familiarity. --Steve Wiecking

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