Best Movie Openings - Out of Sight (1998)

filmgordon.wordpress.com     03-Jul-2008          

Once upon a time, Jennifer Lopez was a well-respected actress who actually starred in pretty decent films. Ten years ago, she team with George Clooney, Ving Rhames and Don Cheadle for the Oscar-nominated story, “Out of Sight.” The story revolves around the relationship between a career bank robber, Jack Foley (Clooney), and a U.S. Marshal, Karen Sisco (Lopez). They are forced to share her car trunk during Foley’s escape from a Florida prison. After he completes his getaway, Sisco chases Foley while he and his friends - his right-hand man, Buddy (Rhames) and Glenn (Steve Zahn) - work their way north to Bloomfield Hills, a wealthy northern suburb of Detroit. There they plan to pay a visit to shady businessman Ripley (Albert Brooks), who foolishly bragged to them years before about a diamond stash at his mansion. But a vicious... [read full story]                    


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