Leonardo Daniel Robles Caloca

Title: Ordinary decent criminal (2000)

Director: Thaddeus O’Sullivan

Cast: Kevin Spacey, Linda Fiorentino, Peter Mullan, Helen Baxendale & Stephen Dillane, David
Hayman & Collin Farrell

Genre: Comedy, crime

An ordinary father who works hard to maintain their family; a decent person who keep their loyalty
with her friends and a famous and charismatic criminal from Dublin. All those things in one person,
tell us the story of Michel Lynch and all the unforeseen incidents that a criminal have to confront
intelligently to avoid the police and save their family.

Ordinary decent criminal is a film which the spectator will take a liking to the leading as the Dublin
inhabitants have with it. Michael Lynch is a family father who loves their two wives (Linda
Fiorentino & Helen Baxendale) and three children. Michael is a brilliant and Robbin Hood-like
criminal who only robs rich people. The importance of the image and their popularity emphasize
Michael's personality and the robbery methods that he and their friends (Peter Mullan, David
Hayman, Collin Farrell, etc.) use. The strategies and the way Michael evade the police, with their
eccentric attitude, produce the insistent searching of him although the police does not have
sufficient evidence to jail him.

The film has brilliant and funny robbery strategies that keep the public attention and makes the film
very interesting in some points, including a scene when Michael narrates planning one of these
while they go in action. However, there are a lot of dialogue to introduce the argument of the film at
the beginning, and through the film developing. This last point can involve the spectator in a heavy
and tedious plot, even with some funny scenes that only makes you to do a face.

If you want to see good strategies and a mix of comedy with a non-common crime thematic, you
must see 'Ordinary decent criminal'.