It’s a peculiarity of Michael Caine’s bluff Cockney star persona that he could have plausibly played Fagin in any adaptation of “Oliver Twist” over the last 50-odd years; it…
” over the last 50-odd years; it’s an unfortunate failure of judgment that he has chosen to finally do so in “Twist.
Released directly and with minimal fanfare to the U.K.’s Sky Cinema streaming service in the January lockdown, “Twist” is now hitting bigger screens in the U.S. via Saban Films, though it hardly merits the magnification.— son of Jude Law and Sadie Frost — his big leading-man break, though it’s not an auspicious arrival. Possessed of his father’s cheekbones but not his presence, the actor looks mostly overwhelmed throughout.
He’s happy enough as a lone wolf, unaware that his work and movements are being scoped out by Dodge and Batesy , two recruiters for the underworld empire of former art dealer Fagin, now plotting an elaborate forgery scheme to get back at a posh gallerist nemesis . A violent, gender-flipped Sikes is somehow invested in the process, and on nobody’s side but her own; that her young female lover Nancy also has eyes for Twist sets up an idle love triangle that goes nowhere in particular.
Apart from a smattering of GoPro camerawork in the film’s opening credit sequence, there’s precious little attempt to modernize the film’s cinematic language either: A brightly lit, youth-TV aesthetic prevails, while a number of the film’s needle-drops feel more late-millennial than Generation Z. Twist, for his part, wants to be the next Banksy and professes himself “confused” by Nancy’s bisexuality.
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