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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5035822079038
Format: PAL
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageSpanishOriginal Language
Number Of Discs: 1
Region Code: 2
Running Time: 95 minutes
Theatrical Release Date: August 02, 2000
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Circus is an appropriate title for this busy British three-ring caper film. John Hannah is the amiable ringmaster, a gambling junkie and "the smartest man I know" according to all his acquaintances. Which doesn't quite explain why everyone targets him as a patsy in their elaborate scams and schemes. There are plots aplenty here: frumpy accountant Peter Stormare hires Hannah to murder his wife and then videotapes the deed for collateral in a blackmail scheme. Upwardly mobile thug Brian Conley pressures Hannah to run his casino while plotting his demise. Sexy Famke Janssen puts on her slinky best femme fatale pose as Hannah's girlfriend with a questionable past, playing the players against one another. That past catches up with her when Fred Ward, an old partner in crime she abandoned holding the bag years back, arrives for payback. Almost too clever for its own good, Circus is an ingeniously engineered mercenary free-for-all thick with secret alliances, double-crosses, hidden identities, and a plot that twists into a new direction every five minutes. What it misses in all the self-conscious plotting is a human equation. Hannah's grinning, easygoing attitude and Janssen's sultry air of mystery help fill out the characters, but the only real satisfaction coming at the end of this crack caper is its sheer logistic perfection. --Sean Axmaker
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Rating:  -
Good lighting and cinematography, otherwise smug and sophomoric script by Tarantino-geek clone, who fancies that drama is achieved through endless scenes of bullying and barnyard expletives.
Its key villain, Bruno, is several rungs below Cesar Romero's camp "Joker" caricature on the old BATMAN TV series. (In voiceover commentary, the inept scriptwriter infers that audiences disliked the performance because they weren't hip enough to appreciate that Bruno is SUPPOSED to be an unlikeable ... Read More
Rating:  -
Too many plot twists add up to not caring much about what happens to whom. The actors are all decent to good, the script has its moments, and all in all this could have been better, I guess...somehow.
Instead it's a mushy mess with no one to cheer for or care much about. It starts out rather ugly and violent but gets better as it becomes more character-driven. Even then, it's missing the snap and humor and pacing of Lock Stock and other successful films of the genre.
Worth watching on late ... Read More
Rating:  -
CIRCUS (2000), is a movie that very few people in North America know
about, because of its British origin, and cast, which is unfortunate,
considering the quality, the story, and the sequence of events that
will have people's jaws dropping over 90 mins, with considerable
amusement, and some shock.
Once more, Famke Janssen reprises her "eye-candy" role as the token
hot girl, as was the case in Made or Rounders, for example.
The story deals with characters ... Read More
Rating: -
Pay close attention, you'll need to. The story winds around so many loops, it's tough to figure out where the story will go, and who is playing whom. If you like a mystery with a twist, you'll like this.
Rating:  -
Forget Usual Suspects, forget Guy Ritchie or Pulp-Fictionesque movies. CIRCUS outweighs films like Confidence or other con/affair-like plots. Mind-entertaining, spectacular, interesting, hard-to-crack. Worth if you like to use to solve riddles, if you're a bit sick of sour as two-week milk american con-movies. Thumbs up! Hannah, Izzard and Jannsen do it!
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