Every Steven Soderbergh Movie Ranked Worst To Best
16. The Limey (1999)
A cult classic thriller starring Terence Stamp as a career criminal with a vendetta, The Limey shows Steven Soderbergh at his most tightly-focussed and attuned to the Hollywood machine.
The story itself is fairly cut-and-dry, as the titular Englishman, Wilson (Stamp) journeys to the States to look into his daughter's (Melissa George) suspicious death, but is played with such intensity by Stamp and orchestrated with such excitement by Soderbergh that it's almost impossible to look away.
The Limey is gritty and thrilling in equal measure, predictable but edge-of-your-seat entertainment, and though its over-indulgence on genre cliches and lack of compelling characters outside of Wilson lets it down slightly in the big moments, it's still one of Soderbergh's most stylish and adventurous crowd-pleasers.