Bandit

Sometimes all it takes is a good story, then the remaining pieces fall into place. Josh Duhamel did a great job portraying Gilbert and carried a strong presence throughout the movie with the accompanying cast. I've always been a fan of Elisha Cuthbert, and felt adequately sorry for her as her character navigated through a complicated relationship. Nestor Carbonelli was my least favorite character (he played the detective Snydes). He was not my least because he did a bad job, I was more so annoyed with the detectives obsession with catching Gilbert and wanted the bad guy to get away. I left this movie feeling fulfilled and slept good. It didn't have my running to my friends to tell the awesome story, but it was entertaining and kept me interested the duration of the movie.

The difference between this story and the average heist movie is the raw and vulnerable connection you feel to the characters and their stories. It's not just the excitement of the chase, but it's the why behind the chase and that is so uncommon. It truly shows the dynamic story telling behind this movie. My heart strings were not just tugged but yanked. I knew why I wanted the lead to win and it was more than just because he was the lead. Not to mention there's so many genuinely funny moments in here. The acting (specifically by the lead) is truly phenomenal and this is a beautiful story that has to be seen!

Lying Hollywood initially lies about the fact that it is based on facts. The film has nothing to do with real events and is an immoral glossy fake fiction for idle and stupid townsfolk. The actors are hopelessly old and dull. The real "hero" was under 27 when it all started, and the actor is almost 50, not to mention his real wife... People did not see anything that showed the real story of a person who got into the criminal world from his youth. Liars from Hollywood are not interested in this and in some ways they are very similar to crime from the film - to fly at the viewer with brilliance and luxury, grab the jackpot and run away, leaving behind moral fasting and decay ... Do we need this kind of Hollywood? Definitely not.

Josh Duhamel is a diamond in the rough -- I wish he were in more film; he's clever funny with a little bit of edge. This is sort of like Catch Me If You Can with the pleasantness as well as robberies. Mel Gibson once again produces and stars in this and you can tell because he plugs in his beliefs which are against the mainstream and does it in a subtle way that it doesn't hurt anybody unlike the other side does. This is a warm film about a thief who is a master of disguises and doesn't harm anybody during the heist. The police are jealous that he can live in luxury while they have to do actual work. Gibson plays a mobster which is fun to see him play parts that he wouldn't be in real life (Father Stu for instance), and is believable. Elisha Cuthbert is lovable as always and plays a really down-to-earth wife who knows her husband is a bank-robber but knows that the money belongs to a corrupt branch of government that forecloses homes. Fun film, definitely putting it up there with American Made and Catch Me If You Can.

If 5 stars was a movie, this would be it. Average acting, script, directing, editing, and clichéd story. It absolutely sticks between the lines of cool crime morality. The protagonist is seen as charismatic, has a criminals morals (won't hurt real people or rob from the working person), tries to tow the line between a normal life and his criminal one, and (shock) gets pulled back in for "one last job". Bet you can't work out how that goes? From the start to the last scene it's devoid of any creativity, flair, or any real missteps either. If you've seen enough of these movies you can literally guess the next cut or scene, It's as average as average gets.

"No one's born bad. Like anything, it takes practice. And when you finally realize home is not a place you stay or can even find on a map, bad becomes a warm place where everything is possible, until it isn't." Big fan of bank robbery movies. They are just a blast to watch. All of them essentially the same, but fun nonetheless. This film is no exception. Josh Duhamel was amazing in this. He really put on a killer performance. Quite possibly the best of his career. I don't know how to describe it. The energy was there, and I felt it through my TV. This is the real life story of how one guy robbed 59 Canadian banks. The fact that this guy robbed these banks so easily, is just astounding. You could really feel the grit of Mel Gibsons character as well. He makes for a very good "bad guy" (which he kind of wasn't). A few minutes could've been chopped off here and there, but it's not a big deal. The time flew by for me in this one. Films of this genre suffer from a very formulaic structure. You kind of already know what's going to happen, but it doesn't really matter. It's how it happens and plays out that matters. This film played out well. I'm shocked that it was just so easy. A definite watch for all. Great time will be had. I highly recommend this. This gets a LennyReviewz Score of: 8/10.

I can't believe the positive reviews. From a horrible script. A laughable at of obvious plot holes. To the least believable acting I've ever seen, this is a top ten worst movie I've ever seen. My favorite inconsistency was the house scene in northern Canada. It's clearly the middle of summer. A title appears, 18 months later. Making it winter in Canada. But it looks like the next day. He supposedly has over a million dollars, in a crappy small house. Mel Gibson does up with a warning about something that was never part of the script and never resolved. Then we find out it's only to earn him about living beyond his means. Except somehow he's spent 80,000 a month with nothing to show and needs to go back for one more score! Work predictable results. Waste of time to the maximum.