An average movie

At last, it seemed that Eddie Murphy would finally come up with a watchable feature after decades of garbage. Unfortunately, it was a flop but I still wanted to check it out as I always end up watching Murphy’s movies at some point. Eventually, even though it was indeed a major improvement on Eddie Murphy’s latest work, I was still quite underwhelming though. Indeed, maybe we should blame Brett Ratner who is always an easy target but it was just a rather weak story and one of the most tedious heist I have ever seen. Somehow, they gathered a decent cast (Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Casey Affleck, Alan Alda, Matthew Broderick, Téa Leoni, Michael Peña, Gabourey Sidibe) but none of those characters was remotely interesting. Furthermore, it took forever to take off with an endless introduction and Eddie Murphy came very late to the party. And indeed, when Murphy finally got involved, it started to be a little bit more fun but the plot was terribly weak. Man, the guy needs another supporting character but, instead, with some really edgy director like Quentin Tarantino for example. Anyway, even though it wasn’t really awful, it was still pretty weak and I don’t think it is really worth a look.

5/10