Circus – Traue keinem dieser Clowns! (2000)

Circus – Traue keinem dieser Clowns!: Directed by Rob Walker. With John Hannah, Famke Janssen, Peter Stormare, Eddie Izzard. Conman Leo Garfield is in hot water after accepting a contract to murder businessman Julius Harvey’s alleged wife, Gloria. Leo’s wife Lily brings trouble too when her old flame Elmo pops up again, years after she abandoned him mid-heist.

“If youu0026#39;ve seen any other sort of halfway decent crime movie, your patience might be put to the test by u0026quot;Circusu0026quot;. If you are more than halfway sober or awake, its little derivative winks of u0026#39;intelligenceu0026#39; might actually appear half-assed and grating. Iu0026#39;m a fan of both John Hannah and Eddie Izzard, but neither actor can rescue this made-for-TV-grade formulaic crap-pile. And the u0026#39;intelligentu0026#39; bit of that formula is the one that most grates on me: when the films throws out references to Tarantino, musical theatre, The Sweet Smell of Success, etc.(naming a character Elmo Somerset? Good lord), itu0026#39;s insulting. And when the twists are revealed, I hardly feel that the makers of Circus are knowing masterminds. They blindly stumbled through this movie, hoping that they could pull this foolish scam of a movie off.”