Good performances don't can't save this sentimental saga of the tranny and the homophobe.

I had to do a double-take when the credits rolled and "written and directed by Joel Schumacher" appeared on the screen. The same man who directed "Batman and Robin" right? Anyway, a nice, off-beat story, even though I wasn't really wild about the fact that it took so long for the full extent of the plot to come together. And I've said it before, and I doubt that it will change: You just can't top Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Great film with excellent performances by Hoffman and De niro.

58.000

Genuinely strange film gets a lot of mileage from Hoffman's outstanding, heartfelt performance and reliably solid work from De Niro, both playing challenging characters. Falters rather badly at times when it loses focus on De Niro Hoffman by-play, inexplicably leads to a quite vividly violent climax, and indulges in a few homophobic epithets that draw a wince, but overall marks a respectable change-of-pace for director Schumacher.

good acting

Painful

De Niro's performance is a technical challenge, since through most of the movie he dosen't talk clearly or walk very well. Philip Seymour Hoffman is spectacular, gives a perfomance with a nice bittersweet rhythm with De Niro thats just alittle too colorful with it's settings and characters to be real, but it works as a story of a drag queen who able to see through the tough guy act of Ne Diro and indenifies with his suffering. The flaw of Flawless is it's over the top but I liked this film.

Most of this movie is dislikeable, bordering on unwatchable and offensive. However, I loved the ending, when it suddenly turns into an action film with a transsexual in heels in the lead. As much as I hated the rest of this film, I wanted to cheer at the end; they really did develop that particular character well, so I felt very tense.

Well paced & surprisingly interesting story with a few laughs thrown in. The performances are good & a message of toleration is always in style.