Finding Steve McQueen

Name: Finding Steve McQueen
Genre: Romance, Crime
Released: March 15, 2019
Duration: 91 min
Rating: 53
Cast: Forest Whitaker, Gioia Libardoni, Jake Weary, John Finn, John Merical

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Momentum Pictures | Release Date: March 15, 2019 | R

Starring: Forest Whitaker, Gioia Libardoni, Jake Weary, John Finn, John Merical, Lily Rabe, Louis Lombardi, Molly McQueen, Rachael Taylor, Rhys Coiro, Travis Fimmel, William Fichtner

Summary: When an unlikely gang of thieves attempt to steal $30 million in illegal campaign contributions from President Richard Nixon's secret fund, the plan quickly goes sideways, prompting the biggest manhunt in FBI history.

Director: Mark Steven Johnson

Genre(s): Romance, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 91 min

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Richard Roeper

Mar 14, 2019

Finding Steve McQueen is a combo platter of crazy-but-true history mixed with creative fiction. The result is an entertaining if sometimes overly self-conscious 1970s period piece, bursting with pop culture references. Read full review

G. Allen Johnson

Mar 14, 2019

It’s a slickly made piece of entertainment that’s a good time out at the movies. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Sheila O'Malley

Mar 15, 2019

The heist movie has a long pedigree, and while Finding Steve McQueen is no "Le Cercle Rouge" or "Rififi" (or even "Reservoir Dogs"), Johnson keeps the tone light, vivacious, almost slapstick at times. This is a smart choice. Read full review

Noel Murray

Mar 14, 2019

That diffuse focus — and a whimsical tone, bordering on the silly — work against the film. Perhaps the government intervened in this case yet again, making sure Finding Steve McQueen would be too muddled and goofy to be entertaining. Read full review

Frank Scheck

Mar 14, 2019

Unfortunately, despite the fascinating story that provides its inspiration and a solid cast, the pic provides neither sufficient thrills nor humor to make it anything more than a minor diversion. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

Mar 14, 2019

Finding Steve McQueen is a ramshackle indie heist drama that has a little bit (but not much) to do with Steve McQueen. Read full review

The Guardian Cath Clarke

Nov 15, 2020

It’s a forgettable film, with a fair few gags that strike a depressingly sexist note. Read full review

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Mauro_Lanari

Jan 4, 2020

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The director opts for an unconventionally modest style, does not flaunt anything and chooses a non-linear diegetic structure not as a subterfuge to tangle a stupidity, but to face in each timeline a different thematic level, from love story to family affections, from politics(Mauro Lanari)
The director opts for an unconventionally modest style, does not flaunt anything and chooses a non-linear diegetic structure not as a subterfuge to tangle a stupidity, but to face in each timeline a different thematic level, from love story to family affections, from politics up to the "memento mori" of the clock inside the skull. Sparkling cast: besides Whitaker, also the supporting actors like the Australian Rachael Taylor who is a Nicole Kidman with 20 years less. In short, one of those enchanting films that, in the pandemic idiocy of our time, have no more market, neither supply nor demand, since they are no longer understandable by anyone.… Expand

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PurpleCrayon4U

Mar 30, 2019

Come For The Soundtrack, Stay For The Movie, Sleep Through The Credits

Finding Steve McQueen is a love story disguised as a bank robbery movie. This is a Baby Driver wannabe, without the great production, direction and dialogue. If you've never heard of Travis Fimmel before, well, this filmCome For The Soundtrack, Stay For The Movie, Sleep Through The Credits

Finding Steve McQueen is a love story disguised as a bank robbery movie. This is a Baby Driver wannabe, without the great production, direction and dialogue. If you've never heard of Travis Fimmel before, well, this film won't leave a lasting impression of him with you either. Finding Steve McQueen has 24 Producers, so if the tempo or mood or anything else seems uneven-there you go. Everything starts out exciting as a bank heist film, but then it flips to a love story and by the 1 hour marks it's ZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzz. The soundtrack is fantastic, so this is the movie you play in the background while doing something else, like surfing the internet.… Expand

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Hoosiers76

Aug 11, 2020

I liked the movie since it was based on an actual event. I enjoyed the relationship between the brothers, and I thought Fichtner was really solid.

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