Thus far, I appreciate the effort and the willingness to dig at least a little beneath the surface more than I do the execution. Through the first half of the 10-episode first season, it’s probably too soon to know if Boal’s efforts to bring refinement to a genre whose devotees are content to keep things coarse and violent will pay off. Waxman, Alex Pettyfer, James Ireland, Nadine de Barros, Robert Ogden Barnum, David Gendron, Ali Jazayeri, Al Zaleski, Jeffrey Tutor, John Demarco, Luke Daniels, Sandra Siegal, Eric Brenner, Tom Gordon, Michael Carroll, Omer H.Airdate: Wednesday, November 23 (Apple TV+)Ĭast: Luke Evans, Michiel Huisman, Jessica Ann Collins, Martina Gusman, James Udom, Maria Del Rosario, Alejandro Furth, Juan Pablo Raba, Bradley Whitford Zamias, Byron Wetzel, Sean Kaplan, Jason Miller, Kelli Mi LiĮxecutive producers: Jeff G. ![]() Screenwriters: Seth Savoy, Jason Miller, Kevin Bernhardt Production companies: Speakeasy and Weg, Dark Dreams EntertainmentĬast: Patrick Schwarzenegger, Gilles Geary, Hayley Law, Olivia Cooper, Jacob Alexander, Lesley Ann Warren, Kate Linder, Alex Pettyfer, Michael Shannon And for that, all you have to do is hang out at Starbucks.Īvailable in theaters and digital formats The heists themselves, filmed in frenetically flashy style, prove of little interest, unless you enjoy the sight of millennials acting out. The role plays to the actor’s strengths, as he keeps us constantly guessing when his character will explode and what form that will take. The only scenes that crackle with dramatic intensity are, not surprisingly, the ones featuring the typically superb Shannon as the mercurial middleman who has little patience for such screw-ups as a torn painting. It makes you long for the days when movie criminals were merely psychopaths.Īll of this might even have been palatable if the characterizations were more interesting, but the thieves, including unofficial leader Ellis (Alex Pettyfer) and his girlfriend Allie (Hayley Law), are a bland lot, and the attempts at dramatic tension via Ellis’ growing resentment of Lance’s close relationship with Allie feel forced. To make sure we fully appreciate the film’s efforts at significance, screenwriters Kevin Bernhardt, Jason Miller and Savoy begin with clips from real-life news stories in which we see an assortment of famous broadcasters telling tales of economic inequality.Īdding to the pretentiousness are the onscreen titles relating the “rules” that Lance learned during his criminal activities, such as “The best things in life are expensive,” and a depiction of how the criminals work out their psychological issues by, among other things, setting fire to family photos and destroying children’s toys. There’s not a lot of suspense as to the story’s outcome, since it’s framed as flashbacks recounted by an imprisoned Lance to a writer (Lesley Ann Warren, not given enough to do) interested in telling the gang’s story. Lance is assigned the task of identifying the most valuable artworks so they can be more easily fenced by the gang’s overseer Mel ( Michael Shannon). It turns out that Jack is a member of a gang composed of similarly disaffected young people, including an embittered Afghan war vet (naturally), who rob wealthy people’s homes of valuable artworks, vandalizing the residences in the process as a way of making a social statement.
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