Art Heist (2004)

Lack of good storyline.

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Blistering performances.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

I happened to watch this movie last week in the TV. I did not watch it by selection. Just at the time of switching on the TV, I found the movie running in a movie channel and the beginning scenes made me watch through the reminder of the movies The movie is about how a professor of arts in Spain, Daniel Marin, uses his students to steal old paintings of art. He plots to pass the blame on his Ex-class mate, Sandra Walker, an arts consultant. Ms.Sandra Walker and Bruce Walker are an estranged couple on the verge of a broken marriage after siring a daughter. Ms.Walker's Boss, Victor Boyd, a collector of arts is the kingpin behind all this heist and with his connivance the art heist happens. Attempts were made to pass the suspicion on a Russian collector, Maximov, who was seen as a rival by Victor Boyd. Ms.Walker gets into trouble when she tries to spy on Maximov. Ms.Walker herself becomes a suspect when some implanted faxes were found in her office and her bank account found to be credited with large sum of money Sarah's husband Bruce walker, himself a policeman, gets deep into the investigations and saves her wife and also their marriage The plot was good and so is the direction. I loved the movie D.BALAJI

This film seems to be a rip off of many movies that have dealt with the same subject in the past. Let the future viewer be forewarned that "Art Heist" doesn't add anything to the genre. Director Bryan Goeres has no clue what to do with the film.William Baldwin keeps reappearing in films, and frankly, one wonders if he has a great agent, or is it that directors and producers love his unusual goofy looks, complimented by that strange hairdo he sports in most of his movies. The only good movie in which he has appeared, is "The Squid and the Whale", in which he only speaks two, or three lines. Ellen Pompeo, his leading lady, doesn't fare much better; there is no chemistry between Ms. Pompeo and Mr. Baldwin.A movie to be seen at the viewer's own risk.

Baldwin has really stooped low to make such movies. The script, the music, just about everything in this movie is a waste of time.The sound FX do not sound real, they stick out way too much (technical gadgets etc.) If they are trying to make a movie about things like this, at least try to get real with it and drop those extra bleeps and beeps, because those gadgets don't really make loud sounds like that. Natural sounds like footsteps and such are non-existent, which gives it a void-like atmosphere.Directing seems to be OK for such a low budget film (I sure hope it was a low budget production), although it does seem fairly amateurish at times.Most characters seem empty and false, they simply haven't casted this movie very well. I'd imagine it would've been a better idea to make Baldwin speak some Spanish than to make Spanish actors speak English, when we all know that theirs is the language which is more vibrant and alive, that is why the actors performance can suffer greatly if an odd language is used. I mean, could finally someone realise how stupid it sounds to make international actors speak English with a bad accent? It's should've a long ago buried corpse in movie production. The production team ever heard of subtitles? This movie again manages to depict European police as lazy and corrupt, the societies as vulnerable and helpless. I mean if the plot again goes like "The Interpol can't do jack, so let's call one American to bring down this international syndicate" or whatever.Sony Pictures treads on the same path as Columbia before it, just producing movies for the hell of it. I'd imagine them to have some self respect also. Are buyers supposed to buy every dirty title just because Sony puts out something good a few times a year?! Maybe they should've used the same team as who were making Di Que Si - Say I Do. It's spoken in Spanish and Paz Vega and Santi Millan do a decent job keeping the movie afloat. Looks and sounds much better! Come on Sony, wake up, produce less, sell more.

This movie makes several mistakes. a few American actors in Spain , and the Spanish actors speaking English. the 'spaniards' English is OK, but the way the acting is performed it makes it all quite annoying. the dialog through the whole script is very weak; it may have been a Spanish script but translated incorrectly, who knows and who cares. i can only assume that these are famous Spanish actors forced into the English language , they may be good, but not in this flop. you will figure out the movie within the first 5 minutes, thats how pathetic it is. then the rest is just bad . lots of waste of time, lots of UN-necessary plots. Oh did i mention one of the Baldwins' is in this.