2016 · comedy · crime · heist
Four Against the Bank
Directed by Wolfgang Petersen1h 36m2016
After losing their respective nest eggs thanks to a bumbling bank employee, three men use him to plot a bold and batty heist to get their money back.
Our read: Four Against the Bank (2016) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded comedy · crime · heist entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, gentle comedy / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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