![]() ![]() He wants to surrender and return all the money in return for a lighter sentence, so he can spend the rest of his life with Miss Walsh. He never tells her what he does, but one day he decides to put everything behind him, so he calls the FBI and tells them he's the "In and Out Bandit" who has stolen about $12,000,000 over the last year. Liam Neeson goes to rent a storage locker and falls in love instantly with clerk Kate Walsh. ![]() How an actor of Neeson's stature became associated with such mundanity is beyond me. If you want something undemanding to doze off to, it'll do fine, but no better or worse than the half dozen other such low rent titles lying around. There's a little bit of social commentary, when Neeson reveals his motivation to his beleaguered other half for his life of crime, hence his framing as an 'honest thief' in contrast to the bank he ripped off on his first job, but other than that, there's pretty much nothing to set it apart. It doesn't even pretend to be anything other than the formulaic, predictable time waster that it is, ticking off every cliche as it goes along, in as generic a fashion as possible. Yet, in the Autumn of his life and career, after becoming a cult figure in the nonsensical, overrated Taken, his name has become attached to a string of off cut, similar takes on that film, of the sort that would be heading straight to DVD for a name with any less star power, and which this effort, from A Family Man director Mark Williams, is the latest. A fine dramatic thespian, capable of delivering in any format or genre. A former Academy Award nominee, for his stirring, unforgettable performance as Oskar Schindler in 1993's Schindler's List. He reveals where his ill gotten gains are, and Agents Nivens (Jai Courtney) and Hall (Anthony Ramos) are sent to collect them, only for Agent Baker (Robert Patrick) to wind up dead, Dolan fingered as the suspect and him and Annie find themselves plunged in to a desperate race for survival. He meets Annie (Kate Walsh) at a storage depot centre, falls in love and vows to start a new life with her, without informing her of his past. STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday Morning Tom Dolan (Liam Neeson) is a master thief, who's evaded capture for quite a while. That's the one upside of the pandemic, big blockbuster films are being delayed and B-movie films like this that are somewhat original are getting a chance. I probably won't watch it again, but.it's original! It could have been done better. For whatever reason, they resisted the urge to do that, which is refreshing, yet, since this obviously isn't an Oscar award winning drama, they might as well have done that for some excitement. Maybe it was supposed to happen in the parking lot at the end when he just lets Tom go for everything. I'm sure we all kept waiting for the big reveal. Clearly now, they were setting everything up for a plot twist with Jeffrey Donovan's character as the newly divorced agent who lost almost everything in the divorce. Clearly the FBI only hires millennials who haven't walked into Best Buy in the last twenty years. Agent Nivens gets the bright idea to steal the money, even though they're on record just about everywhere dealing with this guy, on camera everywhere. They actually think he's insane and search through his storage locker, digging through trash and almost missing the loot until Agent Hall finally finds it in a random box. The Feds don't believe Tom and finally decide to send agents after a few days. ![]() So by confessing, he's essentially giving that evil CEO back his money? Wut? Ok, I know he's just giving it back to the Feds, but still. He feels guilty about stealing from banks even though it's revealed he did it to seek revenge against a CEO who ripped off his dad's pension. So, the world's dumbest bank robber, Tom decides one day that to impress a woman he wants to start a new life with, he's going to confess to the FBI and use his money as leverage to work out a deal. ![]()
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