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	Ordinary Decent Criminal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ordinary Decent Criminal is a 2000 crime/comedy film, directed by Thaddeus O'Sullivan, adapted from a novel by Lionel Shriver.
		Michael Lynch is one of Dublin's most notorious criminals.
		His actions make him an iconic figure, and he has a rapport with the general public despite being a criminal.
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	Ordinary Decent Criminal (1999)
		Ultimately however, Ordinary Decent Criminal plays as a poor man’s Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (back when Guy Ritchie could make good movies) and while it doesn’t match the aforementioned’s wit and panache, it manages to maintain the same quick pacing and a similar quirky tone to keep the viewer interested.
		Ordinary Decent Criminal maintained a very tight and detailed image for the most part, with slight amounts of grain softening up some of the darker sequences in the film.
		Ordinary Decent Criminal was a somewhat ordinary but quite decent little film that was a welcome addition to my DVD collection.
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		Ordinary Decent Criminal is a film starring Kevin Spacey, and any film with Kevin Spacey in it is worth watching in order to get one of his quiet, low-key performances.
		Michael Lynch (Kevin Spacey), a heavily fictionalized version of the aforementioned Cahill, is the ordinary, decent criminal who commits robberies that keep the police in a state of complete confusion, much to the delight of the people of Dublin.
		The fact that this film is about a famous Irish criminal, and that it has been almost universally panned by UK critics, was not an encouraging sign as I sat down to view it.
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		Ordinary Decent Criminal unfortunately does fall into the trap of using these readily identifiable traits to try and warm the audience to what is really quite an uneven and directionless movie.
		Ordinary Decent Criminal is the story of Michael Lynch (Kevin Spacey) and his gang of likeable criminals.
		My overall feeling is that Ordinary Decent Criminal is just on the downside of being a good movie, but certainly well upwind of being awful.
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	Ordinary Decent Criminal
		Instead of a melancholy study of urban crime and the psychology of the criminal fraternity, Ordinary Decent Criminal is a slapstick farce about how a fun-loving criminal achieves fame and notoriety to the cost of his career and friendships.
		These criminals are more like Sgt. Bilko's outfit than a group of thugs and robbers, and the Gardai are potrayed as even stupider and country-fried than they were in The General.
		Ordinary Decent Criminal is a huge disappointment coming, as it does, from filmmakers and performers of this calibre.
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	DVD.net : Ordinary Decent Criminal (Rental) - DVD Review
		Since an incident many years beforehand when he and his family witnessed their entire housing block being trashed and destroyed by a team of Irish police (the Garda) he has had little respect for the authorities and become a man of his own (not particularly legal) means.
		Ordinary Decent Criminal may not be a modern cinema masterpiece, but I enjoyed it a lot more than I expected to - thanks in no small part to the performance of Kevin Spacey, who seems to be able to lift any film to a watchable level simply by being in it.
		For all its failings, though, this is a snappily directed, unassuming and enjoyable romp, and while it shouldn’t be taken the least bit seriously (and certainly not as gospel) it’s a lot better than a couple of other recent UK “crime-core” efforts in both the filmmaking and performance departments.
	www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=475 (1271 words)

	Ordinary Decent Criminal DVD - Michael Weise Productions
		Ordinary Decent Criminal (shot in the U.K., Germany and Ireland) was a fairly loose and thinly veiled adaptation of the John Boormans critically acclaimed book, The General.
		Directed by Thaddeus O' Sullivan with the screenplay having been written by Gerald Sternbridge, Ordinary Decent Criminal was considerably well-structured despite the lack of true detail to which the main character was based.
		Ordinary Decent Criminal (1999) hosts many moments of generally amusing comedy (such as when Spacy hilariously falshes his naked rear end to some irritatingly condesending policemen) whilst there are a host of impressive action scenes, particulary the exciting climax of the film.
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	ORDINARY DECENT CRIMINAL/ 0.5 stars
		"Ordinary Decent Criminal" is what happens, I suppose, when a few hundred actors gain access to photographic equipment and drugs.
		"Ordinary Decent Criminal" borrows from the same story, which didn't need to be told again, especially not in this dumb way.
		The character, renamed Michael Lynch and played by Spacey, is shown as a loveably crafty and confident rogue, who is always outsmarting incompetent police with such hilarious tactics as kidnapping and car bombs.
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		Thaddeus O’Sullivan’s Ordinary Decent Criminal is another entry in the smart crime genre.
		Ordinary Decent Criminal tells the story of Michael Lynch an ordinary man who happens to be a criminal.
		Ordinary Decent Criminal is worth checking out once just for something light and breezy to pass an afternoon.
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	DVD.net : Ordinary Decent Criminal - DVD Review
		Ordinary Decent Criminal was released as a rental-only title by Fox way back in April 2001, yet it’s taken until now for the title to show up as a sell-through release - making the so-called “rental window” on this one a remarkable 16 months.
		Ordinary Decent Criminal may not be a modern cinema masterpiece, but is a lot more enjoyable than you’d expect - thanks in no small part to the performance of Kevin Spacey, who seems to be able to lift any film to a watchable level simply by being in it.
		For all its failings, this is a snappily directed, unassuming and enjoyable romp, and while it shouldn’t be taken the least bit seriously (and certainly not as gospel) it’s a lot better than a couple of other recent UK “crime-core” efforts in both the filmmaking and performance departments.
	www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=1743 (1394 words)

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		Ordinary Decent Criminals Certificate: 15 Considering the reputation the 'mighty' Kevin Spacey has as a Hollywood actor, I must admit that for me I have seen him do little of any significance and would rank him near the top of the pile of completely over-rated actors.
		This film, ordinary Decent Criminal, is yet another example of a movie featuring Spacey in which for me he failed to impress.
		Playing the role of an Irish gangster come master criminal named Michael Lynch who has seemingly mastered the art of evading the authorities, who has successfully completed a number of high profile heists, including the largest of which includes stealing multi-million value art work from prestigious art galleries.
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	ORDINARY DECENT CRIMINAL - DVD
		Recasting Cahill as a Keyser Soze with a sense of oily humor and renaming him Michael Lynch (Kevin Spacey), Ordinary Decent Criminal is extraordinarily lightweight blather free entirely of the sense of scale and place of Boorman's film.
		Always shameless, it's at the least passable in Ordinary Decent Criminal as perhaps a part of the character and not entirely indicative of Spacey's faith in his own healing touch.
		Released by Miramax and Buena Vista to DVD after a few years on a shelf somewhere, Ordinary Decent Criminal features a nice 2.35:1 anamorphic video transfer that looks surprisingly grainy during one nighttime sequence but is otherwise sharp and pleasing.
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	EI > DVD > Ordinary Decent Criminal (1999)
		Based on the true story of Dublin gangster Martin Cahill, "Ordinary Decent Criminal" is an irreverent, funny look at a criminal more interested in humiliating the police that making money.
		"Ordinary Decent Criminal" is more of a character study than a caper film.
		"Ordinary Decent Criminal" is a wonderful film with a fun performance by Mr.
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	Ordinary Decent Criminal : The Irish in Film
		This is a fictionalized version of the film The General which depicts the life of famous Dublin criminal, Martin Cahill.
		Here the emphasis is put on the 'ordinary decent' part of the criminal.
		He pushes the Garda so far with his exploits that they inturn, break the rules to catch him – making them criminals.
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		Maybe I should have guessed that a film about an ordinary, decent criminal would be, well...
		The plot is fine, the acting is good, and the film retains a reasonable interest level, but you're never very absorbed by it.
		In this film Spacey plays and Irish criminal, called Michael Lynch, and proceeds to spend the whole film, stealing things with great finesse, much to the annoyance of the Gardi, who keep trying to pin him on something, as well as playing around not only with the Gardi but with his sister-in-law as well.
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	Ordinary Decent Criminal - Music from the Movies
		This is Albarn's first major solo attempt at a film score and it is something of a mixed bag; though there is so little of his score on this album, you will need to check out the film to hear what I mean.
		Aside from these songs, there are two score tracks (totalling under 5 mins); the very brief and frantic 'Chase After Gallery' and the film's main theme 'Bank Job'.
		The latter is a wonderful swinging tune, with underlying synth tension, capturing the spirit of these "Ordinary decent criminals" very well.
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		ORDINARY DECENT CRIMINAL stars Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey as Michael Lynch, an normal Irish bloke who just happens to rob from the rich.
		A thinly veiled attempt to retell the story of real-life Irish criminal Martin Cahill, the subject of John Boorman's critically acclaimed The General.
		A decent effort though, and the rest of the cast are excellent.(Mr Farrell not quite a Star in this one but he shines through.) Super film, but the 'F' word which is used frequently in front of children spoilt it a bit for me.
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	Amazon.com: Ordinary Decent Criminal: DVD: Thaddeus O'Sullivan,Kevin Spacey,Linda Fiorentino,Peter Mullan,Stephen ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Plot Synopsis: Michael Lynch is Dublin's most notorious criminal, his brazen robberies making him the bane of the Gardaí and a hero to his fellow working class city Northsiders.
		To the disappointment of Kevin Spacey fans, Miramax never released Ordinary Decent Criminal in the U.S. That has more to do with backstage negotiations than with the quality of this amusing Irish crime caper, which was overshadowed by John Boorman's similar and superior film The General.
		Ordinary Decent Criminal brings to the screen the story of an Irish gangster (robber/thief) whose schemes provoke the wrath of both the IRA and the police.
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	ODC
		This statement was one of the first things I read about Kevin and ODC.
		But with Sony Pictures Classics' The General, also based on Cahill's life, due Dec.18, is there room for another film about a guy who was obsessed with pigeons and motorcycles, nailed a man to a pool table, and carried on with both his wife and her sister?
		Spacey!: The positively untrue life and times of Kevin Spacey, with a few real facts thrown in for fun.
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	Ordinary Decent Criminal - Movie Info - Moviefone
		Synopsis: Ordinary Decent Criminal is a classic gangster movie in modern-day Ireland.
		Ordinary Decent Criminal, Thaddeus O'Sullivan, Kevin Spacey, Linda Fiorentino...
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		So if you're in the mood for a smart criminal drama I think Ordinary Decent Criminal is a great pic at least for a rental.
		In Ordinary Decent Criminal, they are not adequately explained, or portrayed, at all.
		The story line is of a two-bit criminal David Lynch (Kevin Spacey) who plays just outside the line of the law.
	www.amazon.ca /Ordinary-Decent-Criminal-Thaddeus-OSullivan/dp/B000077VRZ (1577 words)

	Ordinary Decent Criminal : Mr. Cranky Rates the Movies : Ordinary Decent Criminal
		Despite having Kevin Spacey, Linda Fiorentino and Colin Farrell in the cast, "Ordinary Decent Criminal" was never released in theaters.
		He also pulls the trick where he leads the tailing cops out to the middle of nowhere until they run out of gas and he refills his tank from a portable gas tank in the trunk.
		Perhaps this is another example of two films getting made at the same time and the idiot-producers of this film had already spent so much money on actors and whatever that they had to go ahead and finish.
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	Amazon.co.uk: Ordinary Decent Criminal [2000]: DVD: Thaddeus O'Sullivan,Kevin Spacey,Linda Fiorentino,Peter ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		To give it some credit ODC is unashamed in setting itself out as a comic strip film, but the yarn element to this story soon recedes as the gut wrenching accents of the non Irish cast take centre stage.
		I know Kev and Linda are box office, but what's the point when the accents they put to very,very dodgy dialogue is out of the Julia Roberts school of infuriating accents.
		Back to the plot, and basically we follow lovable ODC Michael Lynch (loosely based on the late Martin Cahill see the General) who as well as leading a gang of daring and impressionable friends also falls out with the local IRA ganglords.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Ordinary-Decent-Criminal-Thaddeus-OSullivan/dp/B00004WZVX (1032 words)

	Ordinary, Decent Criminal (2000) - Channel 4 Film review
		John Boorman had made a pretty decent job of filming the Martin Cahill story with The General, so this slick but soulless film based on the same material faces an uphill battle from the start.
		Spacey plays crafty Irish criminal Michael Lynch, enjoying agreeable relationships with both his wife (Baxendale) and his sister-in-law (Fiorentino).
		His taste for raids on expensive jewellers and art galleries brings him into conflict with the IRA.
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	Stephen Dillane in Ordinary Decent Criminal
		It follows the extraordinary adventures of an ordinary decent criminal - a man who robs from the rich but lives with the poor.
		Michael (Kevin Spacey) is a suave, sardonic and sexy man: a criminal who strides the Dublin streets like a colossus.
		Michael is driven by two fundamental beliefs: be loyal to your own and to hell with the establishment.
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	Ordinary Decent Criminal (2000) Movie Review - The Hollywood News
		Ordinary Decent Criminal (2000) Movie Review - The Hollywood News
		Ordinary Decent Criminal is a movie that you may not have even heard of - in spite of it’s impressive cast.
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