One Exciting Adventure: A Shiny, Forgettable Mess

If you're looking for something that requires actual brainpower, skip this. But if you want to watch a movie that feels like a fever dream of 1930s jewel-thief tropes, One Exciting Adventure might actually tickle your fancy.

It’s charming in that slightly desperate way, you know? Like the movie is trying so hard to be sophisticated that it trips over its own shoelaces every ten minutes. The premise is ridiculous: a singer steals diamonds because she likes how they glitter. That’s it. That’s the motivation.

There’s this whole bit about a detective smelling a glove to track a thief, which is just absurd. It’s the kind of logic you only find in movies that aren't trying to be real. It reminded me a bit of the frantic energy in Cleo's Easy Mark, where the plot exists mostly to move people from one room to another.

The dialogue is snappy, maybe too snappy. It’s like the writers were allergic to silence. You’ve got people popping in and out of rooms, disguising themselves as electricians, and swapping diamonds back and forth like they’re trading baseball cards.

I couldn't help but laugh at the scene in the hotel room. Everything is happening at once, and the movie doesn't bother to explain how half these people got past the front desk. It just doesn't care. And honestly? I kind of respect that.

The pacing is a bit wild. One minute we're in a high-stakes jewelry store, the next we're at a casino, and nobody seems to be actually working a job. It has that same chaotic, low-stakes feeling I remember from Oh, You Kid.

If you enjoy movies where the "greatest thief in Europe" is just a guy with a mustache and a bad attitude, you’ll have a ball. Just don't ask why the police are so incredibly bad at their jobs. It might ruin the vibe.

Small things I noticed:

• The chandelier scene lasts about three seconds too long. It's almost painful.
• The perfume-scent-tracking plot point is never mentioned again. Classic.
• The "romantic" chemistry feels like it was filmed in a separate time zone.
• There are about five too many scenes of people walking through doorways.

It’s not a masterpiece. It’s not even a particularly good movie by any standard measure. But it’s got a weird, frantic pulse that kept me watching until the end, even if I was mostly just wondering what kind of perfume they used to catch a thief. 🤷‍♂️