Honest Thief
Director: Mark Williams
Year: 2020
Rating:
6.0
This was just what I was looking for. It hit
the spot. 90-minutes in a world of two-hour plus movies, a solid if not flashy
cast, a film with a bit of action, romance and suspense. Not a lot of any
of those but it was a good watch. If I had spent $20 to see it in a theater,
I might feel differently but at home on the couch for free it was fine. This
feels much more like a cable streaming filler, but it was actually in theaters
- even in IMAX - and made a decent amount of money. It was low budget for
the most part though I expect Liam Neesen got a solid chunk. These days he
rents himself out to anyone with an action film for an older man. He has
become so familiar in these kinds of roles that he is comfort food for the
soul. He always seems to take the role seriously no matter how ridiculous
and is always believable.
Here he is a man with special skills. No,
not those skills, but a skill to be able to rob banks by blowing out the
door of the safe on three-day weekends. The media has called him the
In and Out Bandit. He has been doing it for a number of years and has accumulated
nine million dollars - enough for most of us to retire on and live well.
But he hasn't touched a penny of it. Maybe the film should be called The
Parsimonious Thief. He just likes putting it into cardboard boxes and keeping
it in storage lockers. Where it sits collecting dust. But then he goes and
falls in love with the woman (Kate Walsh) who works at the storage facility.
Congrats! You have 9 million dollars. Have a great life. But no, see he is
the honest thief and decides to turn himself in so that he doesn't feel guilty,
Ok - maybe call this the Idiot Thief. Turn in the money if you have to but
not yourself. It gets interesting when at first the FBI doesn't believe him
and then when they decide to keep the money for themselves and kill him.
The main baddie is Jai Courtney, so you see that coming from a mile away.
But he has skills. Did I mention that?
