"Is this your first time being robbed?"

Visually striking and artistically creative editing style, replete with match cuts, freeze frames, and a truly show-stopping cross-cut sexual fantasy (it's no wonder to find Lawrence of Arabia's Anne V. Coates in the editing room). Massive ensemble expertly directed to bring to life a cast of strong characters with a smart, funny script. Smooth bass line, funky slide guitar and groovy keyboards running through a characteristically jazzy soundtrack. Out of Sight is a surprisingly lovely gem from a truly great director. One of Soderbergh's best.

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Mhm...that was spicy.
I like spicy.

Out of Sight is a star, it's gravitational pull makes me a planet I guess because I'm not going anywhere while I watch Soderbergh's pizzazziest flick(and my favorite). Lopez and Clooney is the definition of chemistry. Oily and slick. The soft yellows and oranges throughout are mood inducingly sophisticated. Oozing with delectable dialogue and hilarious moments placed just right. The sexy comedic crime canvas has been achieved. Well done Mr. Soderbergh. Bravo!👌🔥

One of the most overlooked films of my lifetime.

Clooney and Lopez have total star quality and they both simmer brilliantly on screen here.

There is a heist, a jail break, and a flawless melding of comedy and drama and Steven Soderbergh ties it together like a fucking boss.

Brilliant.

The sexiest film of the 90's has an edgy cast, witty lines, and the coolest plot of any film this year. George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez are loads of fun as a charming thief who falls for the FBI agent on his tail. They both ooze charisma and their chemistry is genuine and hot-blooded. It's not often when movie stars sizzle like these two.

Albert Brooks, Don Cheadle, Ving Rhames, Steve Zahn, Michael Keaton and the incomparable Dennis Farina fill out the ensemble nicely as Uber-filmmaker Steven Soderbergh gets another day in the spotlight just for being so goddamn cool. 


Is there any actor alive smoother than George Clooney? I don't think so.

Sexxxxxxyyyy but slowwww

It's good. Really good even. But like all Soderbergh movies, it's slick to the point of being glib. And it assumes that its audience won't care if a plot or character action makes no sense as long as it's entertaining. This works in a movie with a tone like Ocean's 11. But not here.

Is this your first time being robbed? You're doing great.

An incredibly slick and sexy little thriller. Clooney and Lopez have decent chemistry together and, if anyone is going to make falling in love with a bank robber believable, it's Clooney and his effortless charm. The rest of the cast are rounded out by some great character actors, Steve Zahn and Don Cheadle stand out, while there are some fun cameos from Keaton and Sam Jackson.

Soderburgh is exercising some muscles here that he would later go on to flex in the Ocean's trilogy. There are some particular editing and score choices that are very reminiscent of that franchise.

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Marshall Sisco [motioning to Ray's "FBI" shirt]: "Hey Ray, you ever wear one that says 'UNDERCOVER'?"

Ray Nicolette [long pause]: "No."

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This is an eminently watchable film. And i mean one where you sit there taken by every choice - every line reading, every shot selection, every turn of phrase (guy's got a fuckin vacant lot for a head), every freeze frame, every single goddamn thing. There's gotta be more profound movies, more groundbreaking ones, but OUT OF SIGHT is so breezy it makes 120 minutes feel like 20. That should count for something.

Perfect. All time top 10 for me.

"It's like seeing someone for the first time, like you can be passing on the street, and you look at each other for a few seconds, and there's this kind of a recognition like you both know something. Next moment the person's gone, and it's too late to do anything about it. And you always remember it because it was there, and you let it go, and you think to yourself, 'What if I had stopped? What if I had said something?' What if, what if... it may only happen a few times in your life."

Any filmmaker would kill to have a script this good and have the final film end up this well-edited. And that's not even getting to the phenomenal cast and soundtrack. One of the very, very few movies I consider completely perfect.

Made me miss the nights I slept over at a friend's house, playing Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas on PS2 in the living room long into the night. Driving on an open road with no other cars, with your whole life ahead of you. It's really the score that brought back these memories, along with the 90s visual style and feel. It's hard to believe how long ago that was, and how these are just memories, like dust in the wind.

(This was written at 4 am while listening to Glenn Miller's "In a Sentimental Mood", which explains why I was so nostalgic for 6th grade.)