Initially I saw the running time and thought, whoa, this is a long film but it didn't drag at all for me.
I feel it had quite a Michael Mann/Heat style vibe to it as in there's a lot of build up and you really don't know what's going to happen next.
Solid performances too. Thumbs up from me.
My vibe was Sidney Lumet.
shareThe only thing I didn't like was the extremely repeated idea of going for a lot of money and ending up with nothing.
I have seen that in Bogart movies from the 40s up until right now. It's a movie message repeated over and over to an insane degree. Like when I'm watching one of these films I'm in disbelief when it seems like everyone will die or all the money will be lost.
In a Netflix Ben Afflect movie something Frontier the same thing happens. An important character dies, all money is lost, then his widow gets a bit of the money. Same thing in this film.
I don't even know how that's possible.
The shootout scene towards the end at certain points bothered me with the way it was depicted. It just didn't seem real at all. Kind of took away from the plot at such a pivotal moment in my opinion.
shareAgreed. It really didn't feel like it was 2,5 hours long, I loved every minute. Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn made a great pair. Zahlers movies get better and better, this was easily the best from him so far, great movie.
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