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Even better than going into watching a film with lowered expectations is to doing it with no expectations at all. Such was the case with Aussie export Dirty deeds, of which I had never heard until I saw it leaning jauntily on the library shelf.

It was pretty good, though the weird camera angles at the beginning of scenes took some getting used to. I assume that it looked a lot cooler on the big screen.

It does look pretty cool, or at least the movie does, though I find myself agreeing to the allmovie guide's mention of a similarity between this and Guy Richie's heist movies. I find my own similarity between mob boss Brian Brown and the man who would be him in Britain, Michael Caine.

I'm losing steam, but the film generally doesn't. There's an amusing food story woven through the rest of them, but it works. The only thing that seems out of place (other than John Goodman's mustache) is the video slot machine the Americans bring with them. It just doesn't say "late sixties technology" to me, but it's really just a minor thing.

No worries.