How to Rob a Bank review – Amazon’s anti-capitalist caper is far from a riot
But like Paul Greengrass’s muddy and muddled peasant revolt drama The Uprising which crashed and burned in September, David Leitch’s How to Rob a Bank can’t quite find a way to capture a moment that should be easy to capture.
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- The director is best known for synthetic action films that prioritise noise above all else, from Deadpool 2 to Bullet Train to Hobbs & Shaw, a tonal throughline that could be most generously described as “annoying”.
- It’s therefore theoretically ideal timing for films that provide some sort of rousing David v Goliath catharsis, a win on-screen when one feels entirely out of reach in real life.
Nicholas Hoult, Anna Sawai and Pete Davidson play Robin Hood in this simple-minded and unexciting attempt to mix social commentary with action In case you were somehow blissfully unaware, America is in a very dark place and Americans are not very happy about it.
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