Caught Stealing
The Big Apple meets The Big Sleep and The Big Lebowski. Maybe modern Nazi Punks Fuck Off, but they speak Yiddish, so maybe not? Revenge of the 90’s.
This is something extremely weird, with a nice plot and all, but could have used some punching up the individual scenes. There’s too much exposition, and the tone swerves between abject drama and The Big Lebowski, oy vey!
Seriously, whoever chose Doctor Who to be a poseur punk rockers (in Sex Pistols vein) is out of their mind, but Vincent D’Onofrio and Liev Schreiber as the pair of Hasidic Killer Jews is completely out of his meds. Some people think that’s bonkers, but I just think they are free(basing). Regina King as the cop is also a bad choice, but for different reasons, no way she is a ruthless dirty cop, she’s too nice.
There’s crap. Nostalgia for cool NYC stuff too: Coney Island, that world sculpture from Men in Black.
I mentioned The Big Sleep just for kicks, this is no film noir. The protagonist could have been a contender and is now a drunk barkeep in some NYC podunk. His fall from grace came from drunk driving a Pontiac and killing his best friend. This hurt his knee and soul, so he was unable to follow his dream of being 25th pick on the draft(?), and being minor MLB players.
His girlfriend is a paramedic that likes him, but really wants him to stop drinking so much and upgrade their relationship. He is extremely sociable, so being a bartender is a dream job. He even gets to watch the games and then call his mother in the evenings. A truly goody two shoes.
His neighbour leaves his cat at his place and bolts to London, to bury his dad. Yeah, he’s some guvnor’s lad, a trust fund kid, money is not an problem on his side. This is true, but since he has millions in escrow to some crooks, he should not really leave the country unprompted.
The two groups chasing the cash are the aforementioned Hasidic Assassins, and Russian mobsters and their sidekick, the cop. Our protagonist plays them against each other, but not very successfully.
Everyone hates Giuliani (and they haven’t even seen Borat Subsequent Moviefilm),
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