The Thomas Crown Affair   At last, an action movie that your mum
would love. There's little swearing, no guns or grenades and the
main protagonists are even over 25. But although this remake of
Steve McQueen's 1968 version is leaps and bounds better than the
original (in that it's not tediously dull) describing
McTiernan's Thomas Crown Affair is an exercise in the usage of
middle-of-the-road adjectives: good, interesting, clever. But at
no point does the film blast or sizzle or shout at you; it's
just nice, safe and vaguely satisfying entertainment. Just the
way your mum likes it.  That both Brosnan and Russo are of
similar age is a blissful relief after the sugar-daddy nonsense
of Entrapment. Both are untrusting, cool and calculating,
convincing you that they'd be drawn to the danger of each other,
as Catherine accuses Thomas of the crime, and he does nothing to
deny it other than asking her out to lunch. The pair's mind-
games are backdropped against a sort of plain opulence - Crown
being a man wealthy enoug