Going in Style (2017)
Desperate to pay the bills and come through for their loved ones, three lifelong pals risk it all by embarking on a daring bid to knock off the very bank that absconded with their money.
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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.
What I could never get by in watching this film is the casting of the great Sir Michael Caine. Now cockney Mike is a wonderful star/actor, but a Londoner who has retired from a blue-collar factory job during his 40 years-plus in the USA and now living in a New York brownstone in the shadow of Brooklyn Bridge. Really? Just throw us a back story, one line, anything as to how something so incredibly unlikely ever happened. This movie is in the tradition of the crime caper, but lacks the wit and charm to be anything memorable. Even three big names such as Sir Michael, Morgan Freeman and Alan Arkin fail to give any flavour to this bland fayre.
So today I'm feeling sorry for myself have just left hospital. Being in pain I wanted to be entertained as a distraction. This movie hit the spot. It has pulled together a Stella veteran cast. There was more talent on the screen than you could poke a stick at. The characters brought out the emotional turmoil that placed them in a situation where they were desperate. While a comedy, it raised questions of why the vulnerable are oppressed by banks, business and society and why in western societies we can not care for our elderly with dignity.
Comedy at its best with fabulous actors! Loved it!
The star power is here. Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Alan Arkin and a cast that is stellar is why I have a 7 here. But meanwhile, back at the ranch, while this film takes great pains to explain why they get away with the heist, it fails to explain enough that even a rookie cop would find out they did it.I do like the off-shoring screwing over seniors by a corporation offshoring their company and stealing their pensions. The thing is nobody ever bothers to explain that this happens because of the 1986 tax law changes which made it possible for corporations to make money doing this and has literally screwed an entire 32 years of American workers so far. This is an example of the light weight script. Another thing is when they are giving out money to the friends they leave the bank id bands around the bundles of money. With out a logical explanation of why the police would not realize that this is robbery money, it shoots down the great carnival explanation of why the cops can not prove they did the robbery. This is a remake, and to me the George Burns / Art Carney original has more laughs too. There is no wonder about that. Watch the original and check the differences. This is a film I can enjoy, but classic? No way...