A waste of 90 minutes of my life

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

THE OPPORTUNISTS (2000) ** Christopher Walken, Peter McDonald, Cyndi Lauper, Vera Farmiga, Donal Logue, JoseZuniga, Tom Noonan, Anne Pitoniak. Walken gives another of hispatented sublime performances in this somewhat stilted andstandard `last heist' crime drama as a ne'er do well automechanic in Queens lured back into the fray by a self-proclaimeddistant relative (McDonald, who has no screen presencewhatsoever) from Ireland. Lauper acquits herself as Walken'slong-suffering girlfriend. (Dir: Myles Connell)

After a distant cousin comes to stay with him, one-time safe-cracker Christopher Walken is lured into taking one more heist assignment. Too-familiar story nevertheless has interesting elements, both funny and dramatic. This safe-cracker has not come far in the last decade: he has to rent a fancy car as a ruse, his cousin is a crafty but green accomplice, and the two security guards in on the scheme are schnooks. Mildly enjoyable despite an overall feeling of lethargy and predictability. Cast is strong, with Walken doing his usual even, solid work and Cyndi Lauper (of all people) very attractive as a no-nonsense bar-proprietress. ** from ****

Very boring, but it did keep my attention enough to keep watching... maybe hoping it would get better. The acting was pretty good. I was impressed by Cyndi Lauper's acting abilities. I found Peter McDonald a bit tough to understand through the Irish accent, even after hitting rewind and taking a second listen... I was tempted to watch with the subtitles on.Watch it if there's absolutely nothing else on, but don't go out of your way to see it or waste your money renting it.

WEll, i was looking forward to watching this movie, as i am a huge walken fan. After watching this movie, my first reaction to my friend who watched it with me was.. wow that really sucked.. now, .. don't get me wrong, this movie doesn't fail because of the people in the movie, its just the overall style of the movie.. now, I'm a huge fan of bringing the least hollywood into a movie, but this movie is a bit dry.I felt there was a few strong points to this film, such as not showing silly things as a romance between the daughter and the housemate ( which i'm still uncertain actually who he is ) , and another good job in this film is over-all PLOT... although, again i'll go back again and make note of how the style of this movie, HAS GREAT POTENTIAL, but just fails. After thinking about this movie more, I would recommend seeing it once, but this is not a movie with high replay value, although who knows.. If walken was not in this movie for sure it would be alot worse..