Flawless Review

London, 1960. Lon Di, a major diamond corporation, is a very traditional place. Although Laura Quinn (Moore) has become the first ever female manager, male colleagues are repeatedly promoted over her by the chairman Milton Kendrick Ashtoncroft (Ackland) and his cronies in well-tailored suits and old school ties.

Quinn is the hardest working and the sharpest, an old friend calling her "the cleverest person I've ever met." But it's not enough. If it wasn't bad enough that she's discriminated against because of her gender, worse is brewing. There's trouble in South Africa with "no blood for diamonds" protests, and the company is facing problems with its dealings with the Russians. It needs a fall guy, or in this case, fall gal. Laura gets wind of this when she's approached by Hobbs (Caine), an old codger who does the cleaning at Lon Di.

In a knowing touch, they rendezvous at a cinema where The League Of Gentlemen is showing. Hobbs knows Quinn with a surprising intimacy - after all, he does empty her bins and sees her little self-motivational notes. "It's extraordinary the conversations people have in front of cleaners," he says. It's like I don't exist." Hobbs has amassed incredible knowledge about the place and the routines surrounding its vault, which contains "one of the largest single deposits of riches on Earth." Hobbs makes Quinn a proposition: to rob their employers.

It's no secret to say that they pull off the heist. The actual theft happens about a third of the way into the film and the rest of the running time - the real meat of the drama - plays out in the aftermath, as Lon Di struggles to prevent devastating repercussions and a chap by the name of Finch (Wilson) starts investigating the employees and trying to work out how it went down.