THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR, THE(1968)
McQueen plays his normal cool self! Dunaway plays an insurance
investigator out to prove that he masterminded a bank heist!
Unfortunately this centers more on her than him, which winds
up making tis a pretty boring ride! If there'd been more of
Steve this would have been so much better! oh, and the other
reviewers that mention the music are right, it's a little
overbearing, but for the 60s it's what they had to work
with! B
From a reviewer at IMDb.com:
Thomas Crown (Steve McQueen) is a successful businessman. He
recruits men to pull off the perfect crime robbing a large bank.
The police is getting nowhere with the investigation. They allow
the insurance investigator into the case and Vicki Anderson
(Faye Dunaway) immediately zeroes in on the debonair Thomas
Crown.
Director Norman Jewison is throwing all the cool stylings of
the era at this movie. He has the coolest Steve McQueen, Faye
Dunaway is playing a sexy ice queen, and he's using all the
cool visual style like the split screen. It is super cool,
but there isn't much heat. The leads' cat and mouse games
are just visual editing fun. Even their sexy scenes are just
cute jazzy music, and interesting cuts. The action is
pedestrian. The caper is uninspired. I'm sure McQueen had
a ball hanging out with Dunaway, driving the dune buggy,
and sipping champaign. At last, this may be a movie of
its era that has become dated over the years. It needs
more fun, and drama. - SnoopyStyle