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Plot: Who could possibly be the target audience for Flawless? Walter (Robert De Niro) is a homophobic policeman who suffers a stroke while responding to gunshots in his own apartment building; for sp...( read more read more... )eech therapy, he starts taking singing lessons from his neighbor Rusty (Philip Seymour Hoffman of Magnolia, Boogie Nights, and Happiness), a gay drag queen who's saving up money for a sex-change operation. However, there's another story line that takes up at least as much time as that one, about a drug dealer and his goons trying to find money that was stolen from them, brutally beating up everyone in their path. Furthermore, the local gay community (in New York City) seems to consist entirely of drag queens and Log Cabin Republicans, and one of Walter's cop buddies goggles at drag queens as if he's just arrived from the middle of Iowa. All the characters--including various prostitutes, drug dealers, a hotel clerk who's a weaselly mama's boy, as well as the aforementioned drag queens and cops--are horrific stereotypes. De Niro and Hoffman, both extremely talented actors, do all they can to overcome their cliché-studded dialogue, but they never seem to be in the same movie. Written and directed by Joel Schumacher, whose eclectic career includes Batman & Robin, A Time to Kill, Flatliners, and St. Elmo's Fire. --Bret Fetzer

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  • Want To See
    MCT:
    June 13, 2008
    Interested
  • 3.5 Stars
    MCT:
    October 20, 2008
    One of the main issues I have with this movie is that I can't possibly think of who Schumacher was trying to speak to with his script. It's not completely effective as a comedy or a drama, but it still has solid moments as a picture classified as either genre. De Niro and Hoffman, brilliant as usual, allowed me to take the movie for what it is and enjoy it. Both men provide performances that stretch their physical and emotional limits, making it an interesting view for anyone who enjoys some high quality acting.
  • 2.5 Stars
    MCT:
    September 30, 2008
    alright movie. the storyline was ok not bad. De Niro acted pretty good as a policeman with a stroke. Worth watching if you got nothing to do.
  • 2.0 Stars
    MCT:
    August 23, 2008
    Nothing special, nothing extraordinary. And surely enough not flawless.

    But full of great, memorable quotes ("Life's a bitch, so I became one, honey") and some brilliant scenes (where Hoffman and DeNiro have an argument and they call each other only with words that begin with -f) Needless to talk about the performances, since Philip Seymour Hoffman and Robert DeNiro are two of the greatest actors of american cinema today. But Hoffman shines more in this particular movie, he actually overshadows DeNiro, although DeNiro's role was harder to deliver.

    However, it's a movie you forget after you watch it and for the most part it's just ridiculous when it should be serious.
  • 3.0 Stars
    MCT:
    August 10, 2008
    deniro as a stroke victim, phillip seymour hoffman as a drag queen, a interesting prospect from our greatest living actor and in hoffman a contendor greatest living charactor actor, although it isnt totally sucessful,in deniro his illness role doesent hit heights of awakenings, although hoffman is marvellous, and adds another great charactor to his growing list, nice stry as deniro seeks help from hoffman for singing lessons as part of his reabilitation, but a not very good criminal plot gets in way of some great banter between deniro and hoffman, and when there on screen together it is a joy,

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  • IndieLove
    psh plays an awesome queen !! haahahah
    poor me poor me pour me another!!
    posted 527 days ago