making a mockery of the Gardai Siochanna then watch this film. All in all a good laugh but not one for 'serious viewers'.

pleasantly surpised that the movie turned out to be really good. Of course I felt that Linda Fiorentino was totally wasted in the part of Spacey's wife, and poor Collin Farrell, if he was in the movie more than 5 mintues that would be something. Overall I'd say the film was watchable. Spacey is good and there are soild peformaces from the rest of the irish cast. If you haven't seen "The General" I suggest you see that film, then watch this fim just to enjoy Spacey doing what he does best, ACTING.

goes out in public without covering his face, has a bizarre menage a trois with his wife and her sister... you get the idea. Having seen "The General", it's hard not to compare it to Ordinary Decent Criminal. Even though the film-makers claim that it is based "loosely" around the life of Cahill who must be chuckling in his grave at his renewed celebrity after death , very large tracts of the film are based on real-life events. It's hard not to get the feeling that half way though filming, the film-makers desperately tried to change the script in order to stop it being a direct remake of Boorman's film. That's not to say that Ordinary Decent Criminal isn't worth watching. It is. It's a fast paced, stylishly shot, blackly humorous romp. Kevin Spacey does his usual sterling work in the lead role. He makes quite a reasonable attempt at an Irish accent - at times it's spot on, other times it wavers a bit. The less said about the accents of other cast members, the better. Overall, Ordinary Decent Criminal is a well made crime thriller which will suffer inevitable comparisons with "The General".

example like this one, I must say that I keep having fun with it.Dublin's most notorious criminal, Michael Lynch, has become a hero to the working class inhabitants of the city, but is hated by the entire police force because they can't catch him. When he isn't playing the loving husband of a happy family with his children and his two wives, the two sisters Christine and Lisa, he is busy plotting a new heist. But the loot isn't the only thing that interests him, he wants to give away a nice spectacle as well. Gradually a showdown between his gang and the police force is getting inevitable...What I like about this kind of movies is the typical good robber / bad cop situation. We are supposed to hate criminals and to like the men in blue, but in this kind of movies, you can only support the criminals in their acts and hope that they never get caught. That's of course thanks to the humor that is used. If it hadn't been for all the laughs that they provide, you wouldn't like them all that much. But that's not the only reason why I like this movie. What's also good about it is that the acting is more than OK. I know that many people have pointed out that they hated Kevin Spacey's and Linda Fiorentino's accents, but personally I didn't have too much problems with it. For once I was able to see past that and enjoyed both actors' performances. In my opinion Fiorentino even deserved a bigger role.Is this a perfect movie then? No, certainly not. The story for instance has been done before, I would say a couple of times at least, and all originality has gone. But again, I could see past it. This movie offered me plenty of laughs, I was entertained from the beginning until the end and I liked what I saw. I give this movie a rating of 7.5/10.