Out of Sight is just a kick ass movie, which has a lot of things going for it.
George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle, Luis Guzmán, Albert Brooks and of course the guy steering the ship,
Steven Soderbergh. I think what I like most about Out Of Sight is that it's a different spin on the Crime Genre. You wouldn't know it, but it does end up becoming a Heist Flick, but the reason why you don't see it coming is because of two things: the Fractured Narrative and the unusual, 'opposites attract' Love Story. When it comes to the 'fractured narrative' device, because it was minimal and complicated, it works. I wish he had stuck with this approach when he made
Haywire, which was overkill in his attempt to weave in and out of said device.
Both
Clooney and
Lopez have fantastic chemistry on screen. It's her role as
Karen Sisco that I've come to realize as being Lopez best movie ever. Everything that's come after the fact has always been judge by this performance in my eyes. This also one if my favorite
Clooney performances as well and a precursor to that suave, debonair cat he perfects in the
Ocean's Eleven franchise. His character of
Jack Foley could easily fit in nicely as a replacement for
Danny Ocean. But then again, it's
Clooney. I've always liked thinking that the ending of
Out Of Sight (even though the cameo with
Samuel L. Jackson's character plotting an eventual escape with
Jack Foley) leads directly into the beginning of
Ocean's Eleven.
The other thing that I really dig about this film is
Steven Soderbergh cinematic style. If you've seen a couple of his movies, you will know what I'm referring to. Love the freeze frames he utilizes to punctuate his scenes and sometimes he does it right in the middle of a scene and it still works. Fantastic cast all around. Definitely a movie that everyone should own. This is a
Buy for sure.
Fun fact:
Michael Keaton's role of
Ray Nicolette appears in both
Out of Sight and
Jackie Brown. Another fun fact was that spin-off that gave us Karen Sisco on TV. Unfortunately, it didn't last long. I for one loved both actors playing the Father/Daughter tandem portrayed by
Robert Forster and
Carla Gugino. I just wised that it caught on and was given a legitimate chance.