Ruins everything he's in. Don't waste your time. Also the film sucks anyway he just made it worse. The only way it could be any worse is if they cast that talentless jack Whitehall in it

A perennial favorite with film producers, Charles Dickens' second classic novel "Oliver Twist," published back in 1838, serves as the source material for director Martin Owen's "Twist," and it is advertised as "a modern take on the classic tale." If you're counting, "Twist" is the 18th adaptation of Dickens' timeless tome. "Twist" raises the protagonist's age so he is a teen now, and the story takes place in contemporary London. Although he spent two months polishing his parkour skills, Jude Law's lookalike son Raff said a seasoned stunt man stood in for him on the more audacious antics. You'll know for sure when it isn't Raff because you won't see his face when he does it. Meantime, the parkour acrobats certainly earned their pay doubling for him. Similarly, all the juveniles in the beloved narrative are older, and Fagin (two-time Oscar winner Michael Caine of "Hannah and Her Sisters" and "The Cider House Rules") musters them as his arms and legs for his shady shenanigans. "Killers Anonymous" director Martin Owen and scenarists Sally Collett of "Max Cloud" and John Wrathall of "The Liability" have given both the Bill Sikes and Artful Dodger characters a gender makeover, so they are now ladies. "Game of Thrones" actress Lena Headey plays Sikes as a psychotic lesbian with an itchy trigger finger, while "Fifty Shades of Grey" actress Rita Ora is cast as Dodge. Nevertheless, this gender-swapping feat doesn't distinguish "Twist." Incidentally, "Twist" isn't the first time this yarn has been updated. The Disney animated musical "Oliver & Company" (1988) was set in contemporary New York City. Moreover, some characters were turned into animals! For example, Oliver Twist was a stray kitten, while The Artful Dodger was a dog.

Oliver Twist (newcomer Raff Law) never met his father, but his mother spoiled him. Molly Twist (Sally Collett) taught her son to appreciate good art. She took him to the National Gallery, and they drew pictures on their sketch pads about dream vacations in exotic settings. Tragically, Molly died from unknown causes, leaving her juvenile son to fend for himself. Refusing to be institutionalized, Oliver vanishes without a trace in London, only to emerge years later as a gifted graffiti artist. Dangling perilously from skyscrapers, Oliver prefers to spray paint epic pictures that people from afar can see. One day while he is eluding an angry London Traffic Warden (Leigh Francis),Oliver catches the attention of Dodge (singer-songwriter Rita Ora) and Batesy (Franz Drameh of "Hereafter") who help him out after he loses his pants during his flight from the police. They take him to meet Fagin (Michael Caine),an avuncular crime lord who provides bed and board for wayward youth who do his bidding. Mind you, "Twist" is a far echo from the army of pickpockets that Fagin mobilized throughout Victorian London in the Dickens' novel. Eventually, Oliver abandons his lone wolf solitude when Fagin dispatches Red (Sophie Simnett of "Acres and Acres") to invite him to one of their home cooked family meals. Not surprisingly, since he is infatuated with Red, Oliver joins Fagin's family of thieves without a second thought. Specifically, he replaces Tom Chitling (newcomer Dominic Di Tommaso),an unfortunate soul who died mysteriously after a rooftop foot chase over the film's opening credits. Once an art dealer, Fagin masterminds a plot to expose a high-profile art dealer, Dr. Crispin Losberne (David Walliams of "Stardust"),for the infamous criminal that he is. This requires stealing a rare, 18th century Hogarth painting from an auction house in broad daylight.

Sadly, "Twist" amounts to little more than a small potatoes, by-the-numbers art heist, with the treacherous Sikes out to double cross Fagin and shoot Twist. Sikes is particularly angry with Twist because her girlfriend Red is smitten by his charm. Surprisingly, Owen and company don't devote more time to the Twist & Red romance. Meantime, none of the thinly drawn characters stand out in this inferior crime thriller. The most exciting scene occurs before the art heist when our heroes steal the villain's cell phone, clone it, and then scramble to return it before he realizes his loss. The barebones Owen, Collett, and Wrathall screenplay boasts little ingenuity, and the suspense generates few thrills. The cliffhanger confrontation scene near the end, with Twist clinging by his fingertips to the edge of a building, doesn't drum up any fear about our hero's ability to survive. The only character that stands out in "Twist" is Lena Headey's trigger-happy, homicidal Sikes. The highlight of the action is her fracas with London police who outnumber her four to one. Not even Michael Caine's venerable presence can redeem this predictable second-rate pabulum. "Twist" has neither enough intrigue nor romance to turn on anybody.

Twist lives up to its title as a modern-day retelling of Oliver Twist, with Michael Caine as Issac "Fagin" Solomon, Rafferty Law as Twist, Lena Headey as Sikes, Rita Ora as Dodge, Noel Clarke as Brownlow, Jason Maza as Bedwin (Clarke and Maza co-produced the film),Franz Drameh as Batesey, Sophie Simnett as Nancy "Red" Leigh, David Walliams as Dr. Crispin Losberne, Dominic Di Tommaso as Tom Chitling and Leigh Francis as Warden Bumble.

The world of Twist is less about pickpockets and more about the world of art theft, parkour and graffiti, so it's definitely a much more modern update, right?

This was directed by Martin Owen, who also made L. A. Slasher, Let's Be Evil and Killers Anonymous. It has the feel of Kingsmen or Now You See Me and if you liked those movies, you'll like this. If you're a stickler for the classics, you surely will not.

Raff Law is, of course, the son of Jude Law and this is a nice way to introduce him to audiences. And it's filled with needle drop songs you obviously know, so there's that was well. It was a pleasant enough way to spend an afternoon, to be fair.