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Title: Low-key revenge thriller
Review: "The Limey", directed bu Steven Soderberg, and featuring Terence Stamp in the title role of the Cockney gangster out for blood in L.A., is a revenge drama in a minor key. Stamp, whose dubious accent elicits the occasional snigger, plays a veteran London crook who arrives in America to avenge the mysterious death of his only daughter, which, he believes, occured at the hands of a wealthy entrepreneur. The plot is strictly production-line, with the odd ironic twist and risibly melodramatic performances. What partially redeems the film is the pace and skill of Soderberg's direction: each scene never exceeds the limit of a few minutes, thus giving the film the quality of abstraction. Overall, though, 2 and 1/2 stars.
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