Thomas Crown (Steve McQueen) is a successful businessman. He recruits men to pull off the perfect crime robbing a large bank. The police is getting nowhere with the investigation. They allow the insurance investigator into the case and Vicki Anderson (Faye Dunaway) immediately zeroes in on the debonair Thomas Crown.
Director Norman Jewison is throwing all the cool stylings of the era at this movie. He has the coolest Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway is playing a sexy ice queen, and he's using all the cool visual style like the split screen. It is super cool, but there isn't much heat. The leads' cat and mouse games are just visual editing fun. Even their sexy scenes are just cute jazzy music, and interesting cuts. The action is pedestrian. The caper is uninspired. I'm sure McQueen had a ball hanging out with Dunaway, driving the dune buggy, and sipping champaign. At last, this may be a movie of its era that has become dated over the years. It needs more fun, and drama.
Director Norman Jewison is throwing all the cool stylings of the era at this movie. He has the coolest Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway is playing a sexy ice queen, and he's using all the cool visual style like the split screen. It is super cool, but there isn't much heat. The leads' cat and mouse games are just visual editing fun. Even their sexy scenes are just cute jazzy music, and interesting cuts. The action is pedestrian. The caper is uninspired. I'm sure McQueen had a ball hanging out with Dunaway, driving the dune buggy, and sipping champaign. At last, this may be a movie of its era that has become dated over the years. It needs more fun, and drama.