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Good god, this is a single page script, stretched to feature length. Add Sean Bean (playing twins!) and a pre-fame Hemsworth, and you get a “film”.
This is a one-location affair, the house. Then there are some minor exteriors. The runtime is padded as much as possible, they literally count every single expenditure and ever single chunk of money they give back, and then all the convenience store they rob, to the cent. Spell it out, read the spec sheet for the gun, stretch it out as much as humanely possible.
The plot has more holes than a cheese grater. Two robbers steal half a million bucks and getaway at speed, but the cops are onto them. The driver ditches the money and pretends his pal was forcing him, so he only gets arrested, instead of gunned down.
The money falls literally from the sky into some dude’s bonnet, cash strapped, living with his wife. The couple buy a new car and renovate the house, after quitting their jobs. All seems well.
The criminal call his twin brother from Scotland and he proposes retrieving the money. After stealing from the DMV, he tracks the couple down. Together, they will replace the money ASAP, mostly by robbing convenience stores with an empty gun.
For the final chunk of money left, they rob a bank, but our boy steals some bullets from the security guard and wastes the motherfucker.
The cute Bonnie and Clyde even give back all the money they stole, and kept the rest of the 500 grand for themselves.
Like Ocean’s Eight, the budget is probably bigger than the values they are talking about. At least we get an answer to the question “Who would win in a fight between Thor and Boromir?”.
Boromir would trounce any superhero, anytime.
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