2011 · mystery · comedy · crime
Flypaper
Directed by Rob Minkoff1h 27m2011
A man caught in the middle of two simultaneous robberies at a bank desperately tries to protect the teller with whom he's secretly in love.
Our read: Flypaper (2011) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive mystery · comedy · crime entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured mystery / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- brisk
- twisty
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“You want a goofy double-bank-robbery puzzle with twisty payoffs.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if convoluted caper comedy and weak chemistry leave you cold.
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