I wasn’t expecting this to be half as good as it really was. It’s a phenomenally written and acted movie with an iconic soundtrack. It really is a great con artist movie especially with such a great ending. It can be a tad slow at times but it doesn’t really effect the storytelling at all. The way they did some of the cons were just incredible. I do feel that there was a little muddling when it came to the plethora of characters, it almost felt like some characters got lost a bit. That my only real big critique, most the rest are small ones that are trivial. It also loses points on not being a genre a really like a whole lot but overall it is a great film and I’d definitely watch again.

I wasn’t expecting this to be half as good as it really was. It’s a phenomenally written and acted movie with an iconic soundtrack. It really is a great con artist movie especially with such a great ending. It can be a tad slow at times but it doesn’t really effect the storytelling at all. The way they did some of the cons were just incredible. I do feel that there was a little muddling when it came to the plethora of characters, it almost felt like some characters got lost a bit. That my only real big critique, most the rest are small ones that are trivial. It also loses points on not being a genre a really like a whole lot but overall it is a great film and I’d definitely watch again.

Already set me on the good mood with The Entertainer serenading the opening and scoring in between through the flipping chapters. The Sting is an absolute blast, a classic escapade caper that lays on noir cynicism, but too vivid, elevating maybe, for being true noir. Novelistic in all the best way that makes the grimy corruption and mobster world that running beneath the 1936 Chicago feels delightful. 

Paul Newman and Robert Redford dynamic as Henry Gondorf and Johnny Hooker is impeccable. Being con artists with different charms, Gondorf is a veteran with brilliant, dangerous schemes concealed in a wrecked old man in sleek mustache that makes him looks underestimated. Hooker is no less of cunning than Gondorf. A cocky, but sharp and precise, operatic man in a sleek suit with a deep hunger to learn from Gondorf. With the mentor-protégé dependent dynamic, they make the caper weightless, well-executed.

Such all-around craft with disarming melody, immaculately constructed world building, morally suffocating characters, stylish narrative, frictionless duo from Newman and Redford, and closed with satisfying ending. Ultimately, a brilliant all-time classic.

Already set me on the good mood with The Entertainer serenading the opening and scoring in between through the flipping chapters. The Sting is an absolute blast, a classic escapade caper that lays on noir cynicism, but too vivid, elevating maybe, for being true noir. Novelistic in all the best way that makes the grimy corruption and mobster world that running beneath the 1936 Chicago feels delightful. 

Paul Newman and Robert Redford dynamic as Henry Gondorf and Johnny Hooker is impeccable. Being con artists with different charms, Gondorf is a veteran with brilliant, dangerous schemes concealed in a wrecked old man in sleek mustache that makes him looks underestimated. Hooker is no less of cunning than Gondorf. A cocky, but sharp and precise, operatic man in a sleek suit with a deep hunger to learn from Gondorf. With the mentor-protégé dependent dynamic, they make the caper weightless, well-executed.

Such all-around craft with disarming melody, immaculately constructed world building, morally suffocating characters, stylish narrative, frictionless duo from Newman and Redford, and closed with satisfying ending. Ultimately, a brilliant all-time classic.

Robert Redford and Paul Newman are best friends and I like to imagine them holding hands and looking down on me

Robert Redford and Paul Newman are best friends and I like to imagine them holding hands and looking down on me

tengo que verla de nuevo sin parones porque siento me he perido un poco de verla a trozos. pero lo que es la estética dios... daria mi vida para que hicieran películas con esa cámara y esa paleta de nuevo

tengo que verla de nuevo sin parones porque siento me he perido un poco de verla a trozos. pero lo que es la estética dios... daria mi vida para que hicieran películas con esa cámara y esa paleta de nuevo

ughh i love when a movie fully drags you out of a reality for a bit

ughh i love when a movie fully drags you out of a reality for a bit