Decent idea, dull execution
Film critic Jason Evans is on a mission to tell you everything you need to know about movies in less time than it takes to watch a TikTok video. His reviews are exactly 100 words long (because 99 would be incomplete, but 101 is excessive). Here is his 100-word review of How To Rob A Bank.
The Premise: Ryan
(Nicholas Hoult) and his crew, The Wolf Pack, are bank robbers with a twist. The
twist is that they record everything they are doing and make viral videos out
of their escapades. FBI Agent John West (John C. Reilly) is tasked with hunting
them down. He realizes that he will need help to catch these youngsters with social
media savvy so he turns to Reagan (Zoe Kravitz), a hacker who is under house
arrest, for help. John and Reagan soon realize that The Wolf Pack are not just
in this for the money, they are trying to send a message. The film also stars
Pete Davidson and Christian Slater. It is directed by action expert David Leitch
(John Wick, Deadpool 2, Bullet Train, The Fall Guy).
The 100-words:
Dripping with anti-corporate messaging, this film isn’t nearly as clever or
exciting as it thinks it is. The first half could have been titled “How To Put
Me To Sleep,” as it does a poor job of helping us understand or care about
these characters and the fast-cut viral videos fail to connect on a big screen.
It seems more interested in the Reilly-Kravitz buddy cop story than the bank
robber gang. There are some fun action sequences, but I kept on waiting for the
script to veer from obvious choices and it never did. Its fine… for Amazon
Prime.
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