Despondent after the disappointment of playing Batman in Batman & Robin, Val Kilmer chose The Saint, based on the character best remembered from books at the 70s TV-series, which offered more acting opportunities, rather than return to being swallowed up in a rubber suit in another Bat-sequel. The Saint is certainly better than Batman Forever, but by less than you might expect.
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The opening episode of the six-part Amazon series features a heist of the pension management company Lochmill Capital by a group of armed robbers (Jonathan Slinger, Yusra Warsama, Andrew Howard, Díana Bermudez, Shaun Mason, and Tomisin Ajani) taking control of the entire floor of the skyscraper and forcing through a trade worth four-billion pounds. Filled mostly with chaos and panic, the characters we learn the most about are trade processors Zara Dunne (Sophie Turner) and Luke Selborn (Archie Madekwe) who, after showing the new intern around that morning, are forced into cooperating with the robbers and are instrumental in getting the trade approved.
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Writer/director Bart Layton‘s adaptation of Don Winslow‘s novella offers a mix between a heist film and a drama featuring the interconnected lives of strangers who converge. Our characters include our noble and uncatchable thief (Chris Hemsworth), the girl (Monica Barbaro) he begins dating after she literally crashes into him, a good cop (Mark Ruffalo) on the outs with his own department for following evidence rather than towing the company line, a middle-aged insurance agent (Halle Berry) passed over for another raise, and a second, more reckless, thief (Barry Keoghan) looking to steal a big score from Hemsworth’s character.
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Jingle Bell Heist isn’t a great heist movie, or a great Christmas movie, or a great romcom, although the film attempts, and fails at, all three. You can at least give it points for consistency, I guess.
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Mixing magicians into a hesit film for something undeniably cool, if a bit overly-complicated, Now You See Me gave us Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco, and Isla Fisher as four young magicians brought together by a mysterious secret organization to use their skills and sleight of hand to deal a bit of justice to the wealthy who have skirted their responsibilities. The clusterfuck of a sequel even further over-complicated the story, removed key figures from the plot, and retconned the motivations of a key antagonist leading to a dismal follow up that somehow didn’t kill this franchise.
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