Flawless (1999)

What a waste of my time!!!

Gripping story with well-crafted characters

Best movie ever!

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

This movie was fantastic. Phillip Seymour Hoffman was brilliant and deserved more acclaim and Robert De Niro was the perfect foil. Where else can you get two great actors in almost every scene and doing the brilliant work we know they can. I am a film buff and very snobby, to be honest. High Praise from me :) I watch films constantly and this one was riveting and brilliant from the first scene... That they did it on a $15 Mil budget with two A list actors is a testament to the actors' faith in the film (Hoffman and De Niro) and their own ability to carry it with magical chemistry grumpy or kind on screen. By the time it was finished I was shaking my head: how did I miss this film? Oh yeah, that was the year I had my first child. So home sick today, perusing films on our local cable service and next thing I knew--my casual "what's that about" became the reason I could not leave the couch to answer the phone :)

Joel Schumacher is a mixed bag. I mean we got Batman & Robin, Batman Forever, and Number 23. Then we have A Time to Kill, Falling Down, The Client, and Phone Booth.Flawless is also a mixed bag. It is a performance driven movie (by Robert De Niro and Philip Seymour Hoffman). Both actors have great bodies of work and are impressive actors.Flawless is about an ultraconservative security guard (DeNiro) suffers a debilitating stroke and is assigned to a rehabilitative program that includes singing lessons--with the drag queen next door.Now, I don't care who you are, you have to admit Philip Seymour Hoffman was amazing in this movie. Like most of his movies, he is amazingly convincing, as Truman Capote, as a depressed theater director building a NYC replica, and as a drag queen.Of course De Niro is great, but if he was anything less he wouldn't still be acting.If acting makes the movie for you. Check out this movie.

Pure cartoon from start to finish where violence is all bugs bunny's bouncy castle and ham acting rules OK. Made for straights and not to be taken seriously. Dated 80's feel which I liked.The main actors had good support while the script played havoc with their sequins and wigs.Only Hollywood can make these sort of films that rely on one cliché after another, but that was the point I suppose.Silly films can be fun. This was such a film. Trashy fun.Never have I seen a stomach punched so hard. Was she winded? NO. Pure cartoon. Enjoy it as such but beware if you try to get serious.

What do Kevin Spacey, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Denzel Washington, and Russell Crowe have in common. They were all up for the Best Actor Award at the 2000 Screen Actors Guild competition. Spacey won for American Beauty, but Hoffman was there for this film.You can always predict that Robert De Niro will turn in a good performance, and he certainly did as a homophobic security guard who has a stroke while trying to stop a drug shootout.He has to ask Hoffman, a transvestite lounge singer that lives in his building, for help in recovering, after his physical therapist tells him that singing improves stroke victims.This is set amidst a huge group of drag queens competing in a talent contest, and drug dealers trying to get their stolen money back.It is hilarious and sad at the same time. Every gay and drag joke you can imagine is here along with tragedy that will make you cry.What is great is the transformation made by people that just take the time to get to know one another.Hoffman was magnificent. Wilson Jermaine Heredia was a riot.