Although the seriousness of the plight of us elderly is treated with respect as it was in the first version of Going In Style, this new version has a lot more laughs and a much happier ending all around except maybe for FBI agent Matt Dillon.
Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman and Alan Arkin are the three new old geezers and they're so good you forget that Caine hasn't even tried to discard his cockney speech pattern.
In better times these two would be sitting on the park bench just reminiscing about the past, listening to the arteries harden, talk about friends who recently passed on and play with grandkids. But these are not ordinary times. The bank in one of their read between the lines mortgages is about to evict Caine from his house and both Caine and Freeman are about to lose their pensions from the company they work for. Capitalism at its unregulated best.
These old geezers aren't taking it lying down, they're going to rob the Williamsburg Savings Bank located in the tallest building in Brooklyn. I loved the scenes where they plan and execute the robbery, the seniors are fast learners and good improvisers.
They also are great comrades in fact one makes a big sacrifice for another. They also share the loot with some deserving people, those scenes are precious indeed.
I can't forget mentioning Christopher Lloyd who plays one of their Alzheimer stricken friends. Laugh there are in Lloyd's performance, but a bit poignancy as well. He's used by one of them as an alibi for the time of the robbery. His interrogation by Matt Dillon is hysterical.
A big sendup for gray power, that's what Going In Style is.
Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman and Alan Arkin are the three new old geezers and they're so good you forget that Caine hasn't even tried to discard his cockney speech pattern.
In better times these two would be sitting on the park bench just reminiscing about the past, listening to the arteries harden, talk about friends who recently passed on and play with grandkids. But these are not ordinary times. The bank in one of their read between the lines mortgages is about to evict Caine from his house and both Caine and Freeman are about to lose their pensions from the company they work for. Capitalism at its unregulated best.
These old geezers aren't taking it lying down, they're going to rob the Williamsburg Savings Bank located in the tallest building in Brooklyn. I loved the scenes where they plan and execute the robbery, the seniors are fast learners and good improvisers.
They also are great comrades in fact one makes a big sacrifice for another. They also share the loot with some deserving people, those scenes are precious indeed.
I can't forget mentioning Christopher Lloyd who plays one of their Alzheimer stricken friends. Laugh there are in Lloyd's performance, but a bit poignancy as well. He's used by one of them as an alibi for the time of the robbery. His interrogation by Matt Dillon is hysterical.
A big sendup for gray power, that's what Going In Style is.