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Captivating movie !

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

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.

This movie was terrific-mind you that might be because I love Alan Arkin but I think it was just because it's such a feel good story. Totally enjoyable and the comedy was superb.

After discovering that their own bank is planning on ripping them off, three pensioners/lifelong friends decide to rob the very bank that ripped them off in the first place. Trouble is that they don't know the first thing about robbing a bank and must recruit a couple of shady outsiders to talk them through the process..When I saw that this film starred Alan Arkin, Morgan Freeman & Michael Caine ( a trio of very good veteran actors) I really hoped that Going In Style would be a great film. The bad news is that it isn't a great film, but the good news is that it is a good film.From the off our trio of pensioners are portrayed as being likeable men whom have worked hard all their lives and whom have been somewhat shafted by their bank. Whilst there's no condoning what they ultimately do it is at least possible to empathise with their actions. This is what essentially acts as the 'heart' of the film and is what basically drives the film forward; despite the negative plotting the men are essentially just trying to get back what was taken from them (and they even offer to give any amount above and beyond what they are owed to charity to make them more sympathetic).One failing with this film is that it isn't as funny as I hoped it would be; there are moments dotted around here and there that had me chuckling, but overall I expected it to be funnier (the film has a tendency to get a little sappy from time to time which does harm it slightly). Despite some seemingly clever plot turns towards the end, the film doesn't really offer many surprises and the whole thing is trotted out in a fairly safe and predictable manner.Still warts and all, Going In Style is still a decent enough film with 3 veteran actors showing the world that they've still got what it takes (even though they are now all octogenarians). The three leads don't do anything spectacular here and sure as hell don't do anything worthy of an Oscar, but they're all clearly having fun and at this point in their careers none of the 3 leads have anything to prove.Going In Style isn't a brilliant film by any means, but there is just about enough heart, chemistry and care given to make it worth at least a look.

The idea is pleasant enough, but the movie itself is overlong and drawn-out. There is a long scene concerning theft and robbery in a supermarket that makes about as much sense as a theology seminar in a waffle bakery, while the ending... Well, you might just as well leave your seat in order to buy some popcorn, it's not as if you'll be missing anything. I'm still giving the movie six stars because of the charming performances - its three protagonists are often a delight to watch - and because it has the courage to highlight an important social problem. In our Western societies, people can be robbed of their pensions or savings, while the various bankers and entrepreneurs who rob them go scot-free. Worse, the robber barons are often considered pillars of society, worthy of any kind of aid or subsidy, which means that the victims have the privilege of paying the perpetrators twice - once in their capacity as victims and once in their capacity as taxpayers. A nice variation on the same theme : the businessmen who move their enterprise to a far-distant foreign country, get hailed as apostles of international collaboration, and fill their pockets before sailing into the sunset on yachts the size of Gibraltar.The movie contains a story about a striking tattoo that might help identify a criminal. I thought you might want to hear a story from my own country, Belgium. (I never witnessed the events myself, but it was told to me by reliable people.) Once there was a more or less crooked man who fled to a Latin American country - let's say Brasil - in order to avoid alimony trouble with a considerable amount of (ex-)wives and lovers. Sadly his life of wine, women and song killed him off after only three or four months in the tropical heat. His son and son-in law travelled to Brasil in order to take care of funeral arrangements. To his surprise, the son discovered that there was some kind of weird triangle tattooed on the corpse's chest. Making enquiries with the tattoo artist, he discovered that the dead man had wanted to have a giant tattoo all over his chest. The design, which was pretty opulent (think Archangel Michael battling a dragon while supervised by three sirens, a football player and the Eye of God) had been suggested by a priest of a local religion. The tattoo was meant to make its wearer invisible.In other words, here was a man who wanted a giant, spectacular tattoo all over his chest, in hopes that people wouldn't notice or remember his presence...