I keep coming back to the cinematography. Despite a cache of fine performances and one of the smartest American heist scripts in years, I can't help but come back to the look of the thing, and how much fun it is - rare indeed is the film whose camera movement is enough to keep me enraptured all by itself.
Thus did I enjoy , the best film of the first quarter of 2006, not that it has a whole lot of competition for the title.
It is not a flawless film, and it suffers from a lack of thematic clarity, but it is so boundlessly energetic that watching it is a treat despite whatever holes in conception or execution you might care to point out.
And so: the cinematography.
