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Pretty Good

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

(Flash Review)One would think that driving an armored truck for a living and knowing how much cash is sitting behind you that it may be tempting to dream about stealing it. Actually based on a true story, this is what one man attempted to do. Sparked during conversations with a lovely coworker, the two assemble am idiotic team to plan the heist. Of course with many heist movies there is some double crossing involved. How will things shake out once the wheels are in motion? Much of the cast is from Saturday Night Live and there are many slapstick moments along with bone-headed decisions. Overall, it is a stupid funny movie with the tone more crass than clever and of course it is over the top in moments.

I watched this not knowing what to expect and found myself laughing a lot and enjoying it thoroughly. I was surprised to see that it was not better received (not too surprised though, as it seems only the most popular movies get any positive reviews and there tends to be a bandwagon effect). Based on true story of one of the largest cash heists in history, it follows the crazy story of its perpetrators and their attempts to avoid being caught. Zach Galifianakis and other cast members are hilarious. The makers of the film obviously took pains to add little details to every scene that really add to the comedy. In the beginning, for example, there is a scene of awkwardfamilyphotos.com style engagement photos that is so great. Plot twists as the film progressed to its conclusion kept the story interesting. There were some parts that were hard to buy, but it was a comedy after all. It's on Netflix currently.

Only part of the movie where I laughed was when he accidentally shot his butt in the first part of the movie.Zach Galifianakis is never good as a lead actor - he always plays a lovable retard, and for that reason, he's only good as a supporting actor.The story was OK when it was following the actual story, but once it started deviating, Galifianakis suddenly became 007 for a short while, which was just ridiculous and not keeping with the theme at all.Another turnoff is that the movie appears to mock and make fun of people living in rural areas.It's like a cross between "Pain & Gain" and "Nacho Grande", but it just fell flat. It had no pizazz. It was lame.

I had a feeling it would have "dumb humor". I'm a 63 year old woman and have seen enough fart jokes in my life. Still most of the humor wasn't that bad and was actually funny.There were some pretty silly scenes and the action pieces weren't really violent as I thought before watching it, as I'm tired of all the violence in movies. But twice I could obviously see they were using dummies in the action shots, which distracts from the movie and shows poor quality.I really like the actors. The lead is Zach Galifianakis; most of his movies are kinda like this one, but my favorite of his was "It's Kind of a Funny Story". There's also Kristen Wiig of Saturday Night Live fame and Owen Wilson (from the Fockers & Zoolanders series of movies).Wasn't great, but it can make you laugh.