Karen McCoy – Die Katze (1993)

Karen McCoy – Die Katze: Directed by Russell Mulcahy. With Kim Basinger, Val Kilmer, Terence Stamp, Gailard Sartain. A woman is released from prison, an expert bank robber who wants to settle down and go straight, but her parole officer and her former employer try to get her to pull one more heist.

“Not sure why this film gets trashed as much as it does, since itu0026#39;s pretty good. Itu0026#39;s worth watching for the cast alone — Basinger, Kilmer and Stamp. But it must be said that the British film upon which itu0026#39;s based is better. That would be Bellman and True (from an old English song) starring a cast of people that you probably never heard of, headlined by Bernard Hill as the computer geek who has to go along to keep his son safe. Bellman and True also serves as something of a time capsule, taking us back to a grotty, depressed and depressing London that is barely visible in British films any more. We can probably put the change in tone down to the Four Weddings effect. The comparison of these two movies serves as an excellent example of one of the more interesting questions of popular culture: why are the Brits generally so much better at movies that feature crime than Hollywood? Think of Cracker, State of Play, Prime Suspect, Behind The Lines, and Mobile.”