Stars: Mike Ferguson, Sheri Davis, Angelica Ayon, Devin Caldarone, Daniel Mendez Campos, Bryan Sapphire, Rose Wakesho, Sandra Rosko, Thomas John Rudolph, Michael B. Rich | Written by Sandra Rosko, Sophia Louisa, Bryan Sapphire | Directed by Fernando Acevedo
I love heist movies, and over the past few years there have been some great indie-comedy heist movies: films like Flypaper, How to Rob a Bank, The Maiden Heist and Blue Iguana. What do they have in common? Well they all successfully balance quirky, offbeat comedy with traditional “heist-film” storytelling. They also all feature a cool and charismatic cast. None of which applies to The Devil’s Heist… well this is partly a comedy; insomuch as its absolutely hilarious anyone would pay to distribute this pile of dross!
The film tells the story of Ted, an ex-con who – along with his old partner and his girlfriend – rob a bank. But not just any bank.
I love heist movies, and over the past few years there have been some great indie-comedy heist movies: films like Flypaper, How to Rob a Bank, The Maiden Heist and Blue Iguana. What do they have in common? Well they all successfully balance quirky, offbeat comedy with traditional “heist-film” storytelling. They also all feature a cool and charismatic cast. None of which applies to The Devil’s Heist… well this is partly a comedy; insomuch as its absolutely hilarious anyone would pay to distribute this pile of dross!
The film tells the story of Ted, an ex-con who – along with his old partner and his girlfriend – rob a bank. But not just any bank.
- 2/1/2021
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Stars: Kurt Russell, Matt Dillon, Jay Baruchel, Chris Diamantopoulos, Katheryn Winnick, Kenneth Welsh, Jason Jones, Terence Stamp | Written and Directed by Jonathan Sobol
[One of my favourite films of the year, so far, is heist movie The Art of the Steal; with the film set for release tomorrow, here's a reposting of my review from the films very limited cinema run. Why? Because this is one film I think everyone should see!]
I love a good heist (or caper) movie, of course as do many others out there, just look at the success of the “Oceans” franchise and the recent Now You See Me but my love does not end at the mainstream, I really love discovering hidden gems of the genre – films like Flypaper, How to Rob a Bank and The Perfect Score – so when I saw The Art of the Steal pop up on Amazon.com I knew it was a film I had to check out. Even more so considering it stars the legend that is Kurt Russell alongside the always awesome Jay Baruchel. So, thinking this is the type of under-the-radar flick that I’d dig (and that wouldn’t see the light of day...
[One of my favourite films of the year, so far, is heist movie The Art of the Steal; with the film set for release tomorrow, here's a reposting of my review from the films very limited cinema run. Why? Because this is one film I think everyone should see!]
I love a good heist (or caper) movie, of course as do many others out there, just look at the success of the “Oceans” franchise and the recent Now You See Me but my love does not end at the mainstream, I really love discovering hidden gems of the genre – films like Flypaper, How to Rob a Bank and The Perfect Score – so when I saw The Art of the Steal pop up on Amazon.com I knew it was a film I had to check out. Even more so considering it stars the legend that is Kurt Russell alongside the always awesome Jay Baruchel. So, thinking this is the type of under-the-radar flick that I’d dig (and that wouldn’t see the light of day...
- 10/26/2014
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Stars: Kurt Russell, Matt Dillon, Jay Baruchel, Chris Diamantopoulos, Katheryn Winnick, Kenneth Welsh, Jason Jones, Terence Stamp | Written and Directed by Jonathan Sobol
I love a good heist (or caper) movie, of course as do many others out there, just look at the success of the “Oceans” franchise and the recent Now You See Me but my love does not end at the mainstream, I really love discovering hidden gems of the genre – films like Flypaper, How to Rob a Bank and The Perfect Score – so when I saw The Art of the Steal pop up on Amazon.com I knew it was a film I had to check out. Even more so considering it stars the legend that is Kurt Russell alongside the always awesome Jay Baruchel. So, thinking this is the type of under-the-radar flick that I’d dig (and that wouldn’t see the light of day...
I love a good heist (or caper) movie, of course as do many others out there, just look at the success of the “Oceans” franchise and the recent Now You See Me but my love does not end at the mainstream, I really love discovering hidden gems of the genre – films like Flypaper, How to Rob a Bank and The Perfect Score – so when I saw The Art of the Steal pop up on Amazon.com I knew it was a film I had to check out. Even more so considering it stars the legend that is Kurt Russell alongside the always awesome Jay Baruchel. So, thinking this is the type of under-the-radar flick that I’d dig (and that wouldn’t see the light of day...
- 6/19/2014
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Stars: Michael Gladis, Ethan Embry, Clea DuVall, Cary Elwes, Adam Arkin, Ving Rhames, Ed Begley Jr., Vinnie Jones | Written by Craig Hildebrand | Directed by Adam and Evan Beamer
Given we’re in the information age, with movies being promoted to death online each and every minute of the day, it’s rare that a film comes along that hasn’t had some sort of “buzz” somewhere on the interwebs. However In Security is one such movie…
The film tells the story of best friends Kevin and Bruce, who are co-owners of a failing home security company in a town with no crime. As a last ditch effort to drum up some business, they start robbing the neighbors to instill fear and create a need for their services but bullets fly when they unwittingly rob the wrong guy – a suburban drug lord with a penchant for kitchen gadgets.
It’s fair...
Given we’re in the information age, with movies being promoted to death online each and every minute of the day, it’s rare that a film comes along that hasn’t had some sort of “buzz” somewhere on the interwebs. However In Security is one such movie…
The film tells the story of best friends Kevin and Bruce, who are co-owners of a failing home security company in a town with no crime. As a last ditch effort to drum up some business, they start robbing the neighbors to instill fear and create a need for their services but bullets fly when they unwittingly rob the wrong guy – a suburban drug lord with a penchant for kitchen gadgets.
It’s fair...
- 5/10/2014
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Stars: Danielle Harris, Kane Hodder, Zach Galligan, Caroline Williams, Parry Shen, Derek Mears, Rileah Vanderbilt, Sean Whalen, Jason Trost | Written by Adam Green | Directed by Bj McDonnell
The final film in the trilogy, Hatchet 3 loses the series’ director, Adam Green, replacing him with Bj McDonnell, who has previously carved out a career as cam/steadicam operator on a ton of movies – including one of my all-time favourite flicks, How to Rob a Bank. However all is not lost as Green is still on board as the films guiding light and scriptwriter for this tale which picks up immediately where the second film left off.
In Hatchet 3 our heroine Marybeth (Harris) has finally “killed” Victor Crowley (Hodder) – or so she thinks. When she shows up at the police station covered in blood the sheriff (Galligan) doesn’t believe her story and locks her up while he sends a search and recovery...
The final film in the trilogy, Hatchet 3 loses the series’ director, Adam Green, replacing him with Bj McDonnell, who has previously carved out a career as cam/steadicam operator on a ton of movies – including one of my all-time favourite flicks, How to Rob a Bank. However all is not lost as Green is still on board as the films guiding light and scriptwriter for this tale which picks up immediately where the second film left off.
In Hatchet 3 our heroine Marybeth (Harris) has finally “killed” Victor Crowley (Hodder) – or so she thinks. When she shows up at the police station covered in blood the sheriff (Galligan) doesn’t believe her story and locks her up while he sends a search and recovery...
- 3/18/2014
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Stars: Danielle Harris, Kane Hodder, Zach Galligan, Caroline Williams, Parry Shen, Derek Mears, Rileah Vanderbilt, Sean Whalen, Jason Trost | Written by Adam Green | Directed by Bj McDonnell
The final(?) film in the trilogy, Hatchet III loses the series’ director, Adam Green, replacing him with Bj McDonnell, who has previously carved out a career as cam/steadicam operator on a ton of movies – including one of my all-time favourite flicks, How to Rob a Bank. However all is not lost as Green is still on board as the films guiding light and scriptwriter for this tale which picks up immediately where the second film left off.
In Hatchet III our heroine Marybeth (Harris) has finally “killed” Victor Crowley (Hodder) – or so she thinks. When she shows up at the police station covered in blood the sheriff (Galligan) doesn’t believe her story and locks her up while he sends a search...
The final(?) film in the trilogy, Hatchet III loses the series’ director, Adam Green, replacing him with Bj McDonnell, who has previously carved out a career as cam/steadicam operator on a ton of movies – including one of my all-time favourite flicks, How to Rob a Bank. However all is not lost as Green is still on board as the films guiding light and scriptwriter for this tale which picks up immediately where the second film left off.
In Hatchet III our heroine Marybeth (Harris) has finally “killed” Victor Crowley (Hodder) – or so she thinks. When she shows up at the police station covered in blood the sheriff (Galligan) doesn’t believe her story and locks her up while he sends a search...
- 7/11/2013
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
It's got Sly Stallone! Arnold Schwarzenegger! Stone Cold Steve Austin! Er … Jason Statham! The Expendables has the beefiest cast in movie history. But who's the hardest of the hard men?
Sylvester Stallone had a dream, and that dream was to assemble the biggest cast of grunting, macho, unfeasibly ripped movie lunks in cinema history. A few twirls of his Rolodex later, he'd recruited Mickey Rourke, Dolph Lundgren, chopsocky killer Jet Li, Guy Ritchie's best facking mate Jason Statham, action legends Arnold (née Arnie) Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis in cameos, as well as lead roles for three ripped and raw American sport stars: ex-gridiron man-beast Terry Crews, wrestling lunatic Stone Cold Steve Austin and mixed martial arts human brick Randy Couture (please don't tease him about his name).
If you are a certain kind of man, just reading the cast-list of The Expendables will make your testicles explode with excitement.
Sylvester Stallone had a dream, and that dream was to assemble the biggest cast of grunting, macho, unfeasibly ripped movie lunks in cinema history. A few twirls of his Rolodex later, he'd recruited Mickey Rourke, Dolph Lundgren, chopsocky killer Jet Li, Guy Ritchie's best facking mate Jason Statham, action legends Arnold (née Arnie) Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis in cameos, as well as lead roles for three ripped and raw American sport stars: ex-gridiron man-beast Terry Crews, wrestling lunatic Stone Cold Steve Austin and mixed martial arts human brick Randy Couture (please don't tease him about his name).
If you are a certain kind of man, just reading the cast-list of The Expendables will make your testicles explode with excitement.
- 8/6/2010
- by Johnny Dee
- The Guardian - Film News
Reality programs and documentaries make a surprisingly good combination, we've already discussed shows like this. Storm Chasers however mixes these two elements with the pace and excitement of an action movie. If you're not familiar with the show, it works a bit like Twister - a group of adventurous scientists are hunting for storm in order to study them. Since tornados and other weather catastrophes seem to occur in a random pattern, it's important to catch them on time as the results may bring forward new data that may be able to help avert similar catastrophes in the near future. Although we don't see many flying cows in the series, Storm Chasers outdoes fiction in several respects: our heroes use almost futuristic vehicles and equipment and when we think about that what we see happens for real, we get a real appreciation of these men's job. Compared to the director or the cameraman,...
- 10/22/2009
- Daily Film Music Blog
Former Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale is set to guest star in the crime drama "Criminal Minds" after fellow rocker Jon Bon Jovi backed out of the role.
Bon Jovi was first asked to play a Goth rock star FBI profilers believe is a serial killer in an episode of the CBS series, but had to back out.
Rossdale, whose acting credentials include roles in "Constantine," "The Game of Their Lives," and "How to Rob a Bank" among others, will fill in for the role; his episode will be aired sometime in the fall.
"Criminal Minds" depicts the adventures of a team of profilers from FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit (Bau). Joe Mantegna, Paget Brewster, Shemar Moore, Aj Cook, and Thomas Gibson star.
Bon Jovi was first asked to play a Goth rock star FBI profilers believe is a serial killer in an episode of the CBS series, but had to back out.
Rossdale, whose acting credentials include roles in "Constantine," "The Game of Their Lives," and "How to Rob a Bank" among others, will fill in for the role; his episode will be aired sometime in the fall.
"Criminal Minds" depicts the adventures of a team of profilers from FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit (Bau). Joe Mantegna, Paget Brewster, Shemar Moore, Aj Cook, and Thomas Gibson star.
- 9/18/2009
- icelebz.com
Stop laughing. No seriously I mean it, stop laughing. It was just a joke. What's not a joke is that Rock Star Gavin Rossdale is going to be guest staring on Criminal Minds this fall. CBS made the announcment today saying that Rossdale will be protraying a "Goth rock star who has become lost in the frightening alter-ego he portrays on stage – an alter-ego whom the Bau team suspects may be a brutal serial killer."
This won't be the first acting gig for Rossdale, who made his mark as the lead singer and songwriter for the grunge band Bush, but who has gone on to star in several movies including Constantine, Little Black Book, Game of their Lives and his most recent independent feature, How to Rob a Bank which also stars the late David Carradine.
Criminal Minds premieres on CBS on Wednesday, September 23 at 9pm (Et). The full press...
This won't be the first acting gig for Rossdale, who made his mark as the lead singer and songwriter for the grunge band Bush, but who has gone on to star in several movies including Constantine, Little Black Book, Game of their Lives and his most recent independent feature, How to Rob a Bank which also stars the late David Carradine.
Criminal Minds premieres on CBS on Wednesday, September 23 at 9pm (Et). The full press...
- 9/10/2009
- by Bryan Jones
- TVovermind.com
Gavin Rossdale has just landed himself an acting job! The daddy of two will reportedly be joining the cast of Criminal Minds this fall. According to Entertainment Weekly, Gavin will play a Goth rock star who may have a dark secret as a serial killer. Surprisingly, this isn’t Gavin’s first acting gig. He co-starred in the 2007 heist flick How to Rob a Bank, Zoolander, Constantine, and The Mayor of Sunset Strip. Look for Goth Gavin on Criminal Minds this November.
- 9/9/2009
- Hollyscoop.com
Gavin Rossdale is crossing the bridge to the TV land. The former singer of Bush is making a guest star appearance on CBS' "Criminal Minds", playing a Goth rock star who is a suspect in a murder case. The team will have to find out whether or not he is moonlighting as a serial killer. His episode is unknown but it will be the one aired in November.
This would be the first acting gig for the rocker in a primetime TV. He previously only starred in big screen projects such as 2004's "Little Black Book" and 2007's "How to Rob a Bank".
"Criminal Minds" kicks off the fifth season on September 23 at 9/8c. In the first episode called "Nameless, Faceless", Hotch's unexplained absence quickly becomes apparent when the team is called back together to profile a killer who is targeting an emergency room doctor.
This would be the first acting gig for the rocker in a primetime TV. He previously only starred in big screen projects such as 2004's "Little Black Book" and 2007's "How to Rob a Bank".
"Criminal Minds" kicks off the fifth season on September 23 at 9/8c. In the first episode called "Nameless, Faceless", Hotch's unexplained absence quickly becomes apparent when the team is called back together to profile a killer who is targeting an emergency room doctor.
- 9/9/2009
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
Here's an unusual combination: Gavin Rossdale and Criminal Minds. But the two shall meet this November when the British rocker and sometime-thespian guest stars on the CBS procedural. Rossdale will play a Goth rock star who may or may not be moonlighting as — what else? — a brutal serial killer. Rossdale's previous acting work has mostly been limited to the big screen. In addition to co-starring in the 2007 Nick Stahl-Erika Christensen heist flick How to Rob a Bank, Gwen Stefani's other half has appeared in Zoolander, Constantine, and The Mayor of Sunset Strip. Thoughts? Photo Credit: Bob Charlotte/PR Photos...
- 9/8/2009
- by Michael Ausiello
- EW - Inside TV
Green Dragon director Tim Linh Bui's new film Powder Blue, starring Jessica Biel, Forest Whitaker, Ray Liotta and Patrick Swayze, has received an original score by Didier Lean Rachou. He was called in very late in the process to replace most of the existing score with an edgy, modern approach. Rachou's previous credits include Aquaman: Mercy Reef, How To Rob a Bank and several episodes of Sex and the City. Recently, he also scored a Lionsgate film called High Hopes, starring Jason Mewes, Lacey Chabert, Andy Dick and David Faustino. Currently, Didier has just begun scoring his third season of the TV series Storm Chasers for the Discovery Channel.
- 5/6/2009
- by noreply@blogger.com (Mikael Carlsson)
- MovieScore Magazine
Uncovered Film Review
How to Rob a Bank tries very hard to warm your heart, starting with two songs that not only tie into the movie perfectly, but also are great in their own right. "Working for the cash machine" by Hard-Fi and "Hungry like the wolf" by Duran Duran are the only two noticeable songs in the movie, out of four total. There also happens to be a very small cast, with most of the movie being set inside a bank and bank vault. So if you're going to go with a small cast, you had better make sure they are the best people for the job. And you better make sure that the plot is good enough to carry the movie, if all else fails. Unfortunately, Nick Stahl, Erika Christensen and Gavin Rossdale give extremely week performances in this film. The worst of their careers, likely. They're expressionless,...
How to Rob a Bank tries very hard to warm your heart, starting with two songs that not only tie into the movie perfectly, but also are great in their own right. "Working for the cash machine" by Hard-Fi and "Hungry like the wolf" by Duran Duran are the only two noticeable songs in the movie, out of four total. There also happens to be a very small cast, with most of the movie being set inside a bank and bank vault. So if you're going to go with a small cast, you had better make sure they are the best people for the job. And you better make sure that the plot is good enough to carry the movie, if all else fails. Unfortunately, Nick Stahl, Erika Christensen and Gavin Rossdale give extremely week performances in this film. The worst of their careers, likely. They're expressionless,...
- 11/22/2008
- by Matthew
Take a look at the latest DVD artwork and details for the upcoming thriller “How To Rob A Bank” by director Andrew Jenkins and starring Nick Stahl (Carnivale, Sin City), Erika Christensen, Gavin Rossdale. Synopsis: Half of the fun of writer-director Andrew Jenkins’ feature debut “a heist film that gets everything right about a crime that goes all too wrong” is keeping track of who is doing what to whom and why. Who is robbing the bank? What are they after? [...]...
- 6/22/2008
- by Brian Corder
- ShockYa
NEW YORK -- IFC Films has acquired North American rights to the serial killer thriller Anamorph, starring Willem Dafoe and Scott Speedman, and the heist drama How to Rob a Bank, starring Nick Stahl and Erika Christensen.
Anamorph stars Dafoe and Speedman as detectives tracking a killer who re-creates the perspective-distorting painting technique "anamorphosis" in a bizarre series of murders. Peter Stormare and Clea DuVall also star. Marissa McMahon's Kamala Films produced.
In Andrews Jenkins' Bank, a bored teller (Christensen) and her slacker customer (Stahl) get caught in the middle of a bank heist and are forced to arbitrate between crooks and cops. David Carradine, Leo Fitzpatrick and former Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale round out the cast of the Rick Lashbrook Films feature.
IFC's theatrical/VOD day-and-date First Take program will handle both releases. Bank hits theaters next month, and Anamorph will be released in November.
IFC's Arianna Bocco negotiated the Anamorph deal with Endeavor and the Bank deal with Shaun Redick of the Collective.
Anamorph stars Dafoe and Speedman as detectives tracking a killer who re-creates the perspective-distorting painting technique "anamorphosis" in a bizarre series of murders. Peter Stormare and Clea DuVall also star. Marissa McMahon's Kamala Films produced.
In Andrews Jenkins' Bank, a bored teller (Christensen) and her slacker customer (Stahl) get caught in the middle of a bank heist and are forced to arbitrate between crooks and cops. David Carradine, Leo Fitzpatrick and former Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale round out the cast of the Rick Lashbrook Films feature.
IFC's theatrical/VOD day-and-date First Take program will handle both releases. Bank hits theaters next month, and Anamorph will be released in November.
IFC's Arianna Bocco negotiated the Anamorph deal with Endeavor and the Bank deal with Shaun Redick of the Collective.
- 1/18/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Los Angeles Film Festival
It seems especially depressing when so-called independent filmmakers have nothing on their minds except aping the style of Hollywood's hip caper movies. Such is the case with How to Rob a Bank, a film recently showcased at the Los Angeles Film Festival that would be more at home at the grindhouse or on the back shelves at a video store, where it will wind up soon enough.
Despite having such semi-name performers as Nick Stahl and Erika Christensen in the cast, this film has zero boxoffice potential. It bears resemblance to Spike Lee's Inside Man, as well as to the short-lived TV series The Nine. Both of those were about bank heists, told in somewhat jumbled chronological order, just like this new film from writer-director Andrews Jenkins.
The story begins with Jinx (Stahl) and Jessica Christensen) locked in the vault of a bank. But which of them is the bank robber and which is the hostage? Their roles reverse a few times as the story unfolds. Each of them wants to get out of the vault with a pile of loot, and to do this, they must communicate with the other bank robbers holding a group of hostages in the lobby of the bank, and with the police who are gathered outside. There's another party to placate -- a Mr. Big (David Carradine) who has engineered the whole robbery.
The first problem with the movie is its claustrophobic setting. Jenkins tries to surmount this with a lot of flashy camera angles, fast cuts and split-screen effects, but to no avail. We're still trapped with the characters for much of the movie in a confined setting. Instead of ratcheting up the tension, this confinement produces overwhelming tedium.
A good deal of the movie consists of people talking on cell phones, not the most inherently electrifying cinematic activity. The scenes outside the vault fail to build any excitement. When the cops finally storm the bank at the movie's climax, the action is so poorly staged that we can't tell exactly what happened.
Suspense is minimal, so that leaves a lot up to the actors, who do their best with underwritten roles. Stahl is convincing enough as a disgruntled slacker who wants to protest our bureaucratic society, but we never really warm to him. Christensen has fun with her teasing bad-girl role, but she could use some wittier dialogue.
Supporting players -- including Carradine and Gavin Rossdale as the leader of the bank robbers -- are merely adequate. Technically, the movie is glossy without being effective. What's most disturbing about Bank is its lack of ambition. Maybe Jenkins will take more chances in the future. If he's lucky, this stinker will be quickly forgotten.
HOW TO ROB A BANK
Rick Lashbrook Films, Williamsburg Media Cult & Villa Entertainment
Credits:
Screenwriter-director: Andrews Jenkins
Producers: Rick Lashbrook, Darby Parker, Arthur Sarkissian, Tim O'Hair
Executive producers: Randolph De Lano, Tamara De Lano, Peter Sussman
Director of photography: Joseph Meade
Production designer: Max Biscoe
Music: Didier Lean Rachou
Co-producer: Brent Morris
Costume designer: Birgitte Mann
Editors: M. Scott Smith, Dennis M. Hill
Cast:
Jason Jinx Taylor: Nick Stahl
Jessica: Erika Christensen
Simon: Gavin Rossdale
Officer DeGepse: Terry Crews
Nick: David Carradine
Gunman: Leo Fitzpatrick
Officer Linstrom: Adriano Aragon
Running time -- 81 minutes
No MPAA rating...
It seems especially depressing when so-called independent filmmakers have nothing on their minds except aping the style of Hollywood's hip caper movies. Such is the case with How to Rob a Bank, a film recently showcased at the Los Angeles Film Festival that would be more at home at the grindhouse or on the back shelves at a video store, where it will wind up soon enough.
Despite having such semi-name performers as Nick Stahl and Erika Christensen in the cast, this film has zero boxoffice potential. It bears resemblance to Spike Lee's Inside Man, as well as to the short-lived TV series The Nine. Both of those were about bank heists, told in somewhat jumbled chronological order, just like this new film from writer-director Andrews Jenkins.
The story begins with Jinx (Stahl) and Jessica Christensen) locked in the vault of a bank. But which of them is the bank robber and which is the hostage? Their roles reverse a few times as the story unfolds. Each of them wants to get out of the vault with a pile of loot, and to do this, they must communicate with the other bank robbers holding a group of hostages in the lobby of the bank, and with the police who are gathered outside. There's another party to placate -- a Mr. Big (David Carradine) who has engineered the whole robbery.
The first problem with the movie is its claustrophobic setting. Jenkins tries to surmount this with a lot of flashy camera angles, fast cuts and split-screen effects, but to no avail. We're still trapped with the characters for much of the movie in a confined setting. Instead of ratcheting up the tension, this confinement produces overwhelming tedium.
A good deal of the movie consists of people talking on cell phones, not the most inherently electrifying cinematic activity. The scenes outside the vault fail to build any excitement. When the cops finally storm the bank at the movie's climax, the action is so poorly staged that we can't tell exactly what happened.
Suspense is minimal, so that leaves a lot up to the actors, who do their best with underwritten roles. Stahl is convincing enough as a disgruntled slacker who wants to protest our bureaucratic society, but we never really warm to him. Christensen has fun with her teasing bad-girl role, but she could use some wittier dialogue.
Supporting players -- including Carradine and Gavin Rossdale as the leader of the bank robbers -- are merely adequate. Technically, the movie is glossy without being effective. What's most disturbing about Bank is its lack of ambition. Maybe Jenkins will take more chances in the future. If he's lucky, this stinker will be quickly forgotten.
HOW TO ROB A BANK
Rick Lashbrook Films, Williamsburg Media Cult & Villa Entertainment
Credits:
Screenwriter-director: Andrews Jenkins
Producers: Rick Lashbrook, Darby Parker, Arthur Sarkissian, Tim O'Hair
Executive producers: Randolph De Lano, Tamara De Lano, Peter Sussman
Director of photography: Joseph Meade
Production designer: Max Biscoe
Music: Didier Lean Rachou
Co-producer: Brent Morris
Costume designer: Birgitte Mann
Editors: M. Scott Smith, Dennis M. Hill
Cast:
Jason Jinx Taylor: Nick Stahl
Jessica: Erika Christensen
Simon: Gavin Rossdale
Officer DeGepse: Terry Crews
Nick: David Carradine
Gunman: Leo Fitzpatrick
Officer Linstrom: Adriano Aragon
Running time -- 81 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 7/10/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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