Sadly Over-hyped

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

.Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

I was hoping to get laughs throughout but instead got one or two smirks. I feel like they try really hard to be funny. Jokes just don't seem to flow. It has many jokes and I love dumb movies with dumb jokes but for some reason this one just didn't do it for me. Perhaps because it was it was based on true events is the reason I can't grasp the jokes. This movies is not to be taken seriously and I knew that going in but I am truly disappointed by it.

And i don't mean just from watching the goofballs of the story, which was sort of expected. But from having wasted two hours of my life on this crap. It seemed promising at first with brilliant comedians like Zach Galifianakis and Kristen Wiig, but the talent is completely wasted on a criminally stupid script.Ostensibly based on "a real story", but most of soup have likely been made up - from the contract killer in Mexico trying to shoot Ghantt with a musket, capturing in a bathtub, finding he has the identical name and deciding not to kill him, overpowering Mexican police at the airport, crashing the BMW at the iron gate, wife and mistress fighting at the Walmart, and so on, and on. The similarities of what happened in real life and in the movie could be summarized in two sentences. And this goes even for the general appearance of the main characters. But the final nail in the coffin is that this satire isn't even really funny.I can't believe that it was "based on a true story". And neither will anyone else with more than half a brain. Because it's not.

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.

If this is based on a true story, and it was, I can't believe a bunch of nimrods like this were able to pull it off. Coming off looking even worse to my mind was the security company Loomis Fargo, which didn't seem to have any measures in place to prevent something like this from happening. The actual robbery took place in October of 1997, so that's not that long ago for the company to have gotten with the times. Having just read a summary of that heist, the details in the film are amazingly accurate, right down to the picture of Elvis hanging over the fireplace of the Chambers home. Unbelievable.As far as the movie goes, it's got it's share of hits and misses, with the funny parts coming across as slapstick more than anything else. I'm not a big fan of movies with Saturday Night Live alumni in them, and this one had a couple in Kristen Wiig and Kate McKinnon. Both were OK here and that's as much as I'll concede, but considering the inane nature of the story, they fit right in with the kind of forced humor the picture came up with.For some real laughs, stick around for the outtakes following the film because they're funnier than the movie itself. You know, The Bowery Boys made a 1949 movie titled "Master Minds", and in comparing the two one would be hard pressed to decide which one had a dumber cast of idiots. In the Bowery Boys flick, Huntz Hall is gifted with a mind reading ability to predict the future. If he could have told us about this one coming out in 2016, we would have all been better forewarned.