An average movie

Honestly, I wasn't expecting much from this flick. Indeed, the poster for this movie has been widely known as the worst movie poster ever made (just check this beauty in its full glory here underneath). Still, since there was a pretty impressive cast of B actors (Hayden Christensen, Matt Dillon, Idris Elba, Jay Hernandez, Zoe Saldana, Paul Walker, even Chris Brown!), I thought I should give it a try. Surprisingly, even though the whole thing was still rather underwhelming, it was actually not bad at all. It definitely had some potential and it could have been an awesome darker and tougher version of 'Ocean's eleven'. Personally, I really enjoyed the two heists which were pretty spectacular and after the 2nd heist, there was a really impressive chase with Chris Brown. It did really look as if he did the stunts himself but even if he did not, it was then very smartly filmed and edited. Too bad that the shaky-cam in this sequence was terribly nauseating, some of the worse I have ever seen. Unfortunately, except for those two pretty cool scenes, the movie didn't have much else to offer. Indeed, the actors did their best to give some life to their characters but since there were so many of them, they were all poorly developed and the sub-plots involving them were even worse. Anyway, to conclude, in spite of its ugly ass poster, this movie actually had some potential, but at the end of the day, it still remains a rather average heist flick and it is not really worth a look, even if you like the genre.




5/10