Review of Out of Sight (1998) by Dawdlingpoet — 28 Nov 2021

Judging by the star ratings given by other people on this site, im left wondering if I somehow didn't quite *get* this movie. Overall I wasn't really impressed at all. Anyway all I can say really are my own thoughts and opinions having seen the movie and thats what I'll cover.

To start with, I felt that there was alot of dialogue in this movie but there wasn't all that much action or particularly dramatic scenes, to keep the viewer interested. I thought that the story moved really quite slowly with not much plot progression. I felt that this was a bland movie that lost my attention after about the first half hour or so, although George Clooney does alright as the wise talking criminal and Jennifer Lopez as the agent, I felt that there wasn't really enough to the story to keep me interested enough to make me feel particularly connected to, or interested in, the characters and if you don't particularly care, or are interested in, the characters, then really whats the point?

Sure the movie has a decent enough cast list, George and Jennifer do alright in their roles but just because of the actors and actresses present, I don't feel it was enough to really make this a particularly good movie. I know I say that there isn't much action (or certainly not in the mid part of the movie) and im aware that its not marketed specifically as an action movie, so perhaps you think that its not fair of me to state this as a criticism but I still feel that there has to be more to back up such a movie. If the story had a bit more 'juice' to keep me interested, I quite possibly would have paid more attention and not started wondering how long was left before it would finish (I could have switched it off after an hour or so but I gave it the benefit of the doubt and decided to see it through to the end lol) but that wasn't the case. It is fair to say that, somewhat in the movies defence, the pace does hot up near the end of the movie as Foley tries to rescue his friend Midge at the end of a robbery gone bad situation but I really did feel like I had lost interest in it by the time this happened.

I'm sure some people will enjoy this, im thinking mainly George Clooney and/or Jennifer Lopez fans and fans of perhaps crime romance movies, if such a genre exists(?), maybe its bad of me to not be so interested in movies that rely alot on long winded dialogue and I like to see more visual elements to keep my interest but I think this isn't always the case, I like some dark comedy movies that don't feature much action but this just didn't seem to catch my interest much at all. I can't help but feel like this had more potential in it but it wasn't fully realised and that was a disappointment in my eyes.

Personally I wouldn't recommend this movie. To me, the story was a bit weak and slightly confusing in the middle and I didn't particularly feel a connection to, or interest in, either of the two main characters. There isn't a great deal of action and it just seems too plain, it actually struck me as more of a TV movie than a big Hollywood movie to be honest, though I know its ten years old but all the same, it just didn't interest me enough really.

Without George Clooney or Jennifer Lopez featuring in this movie, I don't know if there would be any reason to watch it. Perhaps I am being a bit unfair and these are only my opinions but personally I wasn't too keen on it and thought that overall it was a pretty weak movie and it just didn't capture my imagination or intrigued or even particularly interested me at all and on that basis, I wouldn't recommend it.