The Film: Flowing with confidence, Soderbergh's comeback follow-up was like the dark twin of Out Of Sight – another twisty neo-noir thriller, but this time much darker and more fractured.

Point Blank is clearly an influence – not just the dreamy timeline, but the revenge-driven story (Terence Stamp's steely ex-con investigating the death of his daughter). But unlike Kafka, overshadowed by its inspiration, The Limey stands alongside its predeccesor.

It wasn't a financial success – it cost $10 million, made just over $3 million – but that didn't matter so much as the swagger and intelligence Soderbergh pumped into it. He was unmistakably back.

Soderbergh Speaks: “My whole line while we were making it was, 'If we do our job right this is Get Carter as made by Alain Resnais,' which I know spells big box office! I felt I could get away with a certain amount of abstraction because the backbone of the movie is so straight. Even so, my first version was so layered and deconstructed even people who had worked on the movie didn't understand it.”