13 Overlooked Films From Famous Directors

Steven Soderbergh is a fascinating director. He's a contradictory artist who switches styles and genres with ease and pulls off both commercial and artistic cinema brilliantly. In terms of one film which sums him up, The Limey would be it.

There are issues: the climax feels rushed and Peter Fonda isn't particularly good as the villain, but Terrence Stamp's fantastic performance counter-balances that. There's a sense of darkness, pathos and world-weary sadness weighing the entire film down, allowing this to work very well as a story, yet there are still some strong thrills. The action, though infrequent, is gloriously bad-ass and brilliantly done.

The thing which truly makes this stand out is the editing. It's edited in an extremely unusual way which makes the whole thing feel like Stamp's Wilson is retrospectively thinking about things non-chronologically. So, here we have one of cinema's best attempts at representing human thought on-screen. There, you've just been given another reason to go and watch it as soon as possible. Since it combines the strengths of his blockbuster outings (The Ocean's Trilogy, Out of Sight) and his dramatic films (Sex, Lies and Videotape, Traffic), it's a film that represents the best of Soderbergh.