I stumbled across this little known Demi Moore and Michael Caine movie on TV last night, and on the strength of the lead actors, I decided to give it a go. A young reporter Natalie Dormer (from TV's Game Of Thrones) meets an old woman (Demi Moore complete with old age make up) Laura Quinn, to get her story about ........... Moore tells the story of being the lone female executive at London Diamond Corporation. In London in 1960. She is frustrated as her less-experienced male co-workers are promoted ahead of her. She is intrigued, when the mild-mannered night janitor, Mr. Hobbs (Michael Caine) approaches her with a daring but simple plan to steal a handful of diamonds from the vault.Joss Auckland has a supporting role and is as reliable as ever. It is funny, pet hates bother me even when I see it in movies. As I was getting annoyed when Michael Caine was talking away to Moore in a cinema during the movie. But it's hard to be too critical of a movie that gets so much right.It's a good movie, that had a decent amount of tension, The score is a valuable asset to the movie going from quirky to dramatic. Demi Moore remains one of the most talented and beautiful women in movies, and her ladylike sexiness is in rare supply. Any movie becomes better by having her name in it's cast.Given the talent involved, I'm surprised this failed to find an audience as it is more than an above average heist movie.

A reporter comes to interview Laura Quinn (Demi Moore) as a woman manager in a man's world from the old days. Laura pulls out a giant diamond and retells the story of when she stole it back in 1960 London. Laura is frustrated as the lone female executive at London Diamond Corporation having been passed over yet again. Hobbs the janitor (Michael Caine) approaches her with a plan to steal some diamonds from the vault. When Hobbs takes the plan to an unexpected way, insurance investigator Finch (Lambert Wilson) is suspicious and Laura is trapped.Demi Moore always speaks deliberately with a smoky voice and I don't mind her British accent. Director Michael Radford has created a good sense of an era but the caper lacks a certain energy or power. It's a slow moving film where Michael Caine shows his brilliance. He is very convincing in every word he speaks. It's a little film that is well made enough. The caper is simplistic and has the feel of the truth.

This is a quiet, intelligent little movie that showcases beautiful performances from Michael Caine and Demi Moore. The insights into the characters and how their histories and personalities push the events forward are mesmerizing. Finally, the payoff for the audience that have a vested rooting interest is quite generous indeed.I have noticed that this movie rates considerably lower on the Rotten Tomatoes website than at IMDb. I postulate that the sophisticated dialogue and plot driven movie that Flawless is, simply doesn't have enough explosions or action for the younger crowd at Rotten Tomatoes to appreciate. Suffice it to say, if you have some life experience, notice subtlety around you, and still want the world to be a fair place in spite of knowing better, you will come away with a deep admiration and affection for this movie and it's characters.

This is an intriguing and thoughtful film. Although it is about a huge diamond robbery, it is fortunately not a traditional 'heist film'. I hate most heist films. The lead roles are played by Michael Caine and Demi Moore. Michael Caine plays Michael Caine, surprise surprise. But that is OK, because that is more or less who the character is meant to be. The year is 1960. Moore plays a sleek, hyper-tense female business executive whose job is threatened, and who is struggling to survive at all in a world of sneering male chauvinist pigs. She is the only woman ever to rise to managerial rank in a London diamond company which controls all the South African diamond supply and runs the international cartel for diamonds. Caine has spent 19 years working, or one should say posing, as a janitor there, plotting and planning his big robbery. But what are his real motives? The film hinges on this, and the unexpected revelations of the origins of the proposed heist, which go back 19 years. Since Caine reads all the discarded memos and correspondence thrown into the waste baskets in all the offices, he knows what everyone is doing, saying, and thinking within the firm. (Remember, this is 1960, and everything is on paper.) Caine approaches Moore because he knows of her grievances, and persuades her to steal the codes of the giant safe containing all the company's diamonds. She eventually steals them from the home of the company's chairman, played very well, as usual, by the ever-reliable supporting actor Joss Ackland, veteran of 189 films. The plot moves on and develops some surprises, some very big surprises in fact. The film is intense, gripping, and entertaining. It was very well directed by Michael Radford, best known for Orwell's NINETEEN EIGHT-FOUR (1984), WHITE MISCHIEF (1987), and the sleeper hit IL POSTINO (1994). (On the subject of IL POSTINO, I have to say that although it was a lovely film, its depiction of the poet Pablo Neruda by the charming and cuddly French actor Philippe Noiret was wildly at variance with the truth. I met Neruda in 1966, and he was a vain, arrogant, haughty and egocentric poseur, the very opposite of the gentle softie portrayed by Noiret.) In this film, Demi Moore continues to massage us with her throaty voice and keeps 'looking good', despite having moved on into middle age. She has that something.