I barely remember anything about the first Den of Thieves and nothing about this sequel encouraged me look it up. About all I remember is that I thought it was kind of boring and overstuffed with macho bullshit. The sequel … Continue reading
Like the main characters of this movie, the film does just enough to get by. It isn’t stellar but its consistently amusing enough. I kept wondering if it would be anything more than it is… and it wasn’t. But that’s … Continue reading
With the collapse of the DCU and the troubles with the MCU, pretty soon half of all movies will be Guy Ritchie flicks. Don’t know what they put in his tea, but four movies in three years is quite a … Continue reading
Crew is a high-energy, stylish Indian heist film about a trio of flight attendants working for a bankrupt airline. Having not been paid in some time, they look to more criminal, you might even sage smuggly, opportunities to get what’s … Continue reading
Lift is… a marginal Netflix international thriller that you’ve seen – or skipped – before. This time it’s a heist film but it might as well have been a spy thriller or roll the dice for a similar genre. It … Continue reading
The Tomorrow Job is like a D grade clone of a Christopher Nolan film. An interesting idea executed poorly. A science fiction heist film with a time travel premise with doubtful utility and a heist plotline that fails to crackle. … Continue reading
Based on the opening scene, I thought I was going to love this cool, amusing, self-aware animated flick. Alas, I struggled with a lot of it and wound up feeling kind of lukewarm by the end. And that’s despite a … Continue reading
Princess Switch 3 – the 2021 Christmas present from this dumb franchise – decides it doesn’t want to be a wacky romantic comedy OR a dumb con-woman flick. No, now it has delusions of being a heist film. Someone has … Continue reading
I had a bit of an issue going into this prequel to the zombie heist film Army of the Dead… specifically that this centers on the most annoying character from that big budget zombie film. The one I liked the … Continue reading
The Misfits surprised me only once… when the credits rolled, Renny Harlin’s name came up. Yet it didn’t surprise me either… I can believe the flashy attempts at cool would come from a director like him. But also that the … Continue reading