If this is based on a true story, and it was, I can't believe a bunch of nimrods like this were able to pull it off. Coming off looking even worse to my mind was the security company Loomis Fargo, which didn't seem to have any measures in place to prevent something like this from happening. The actual robbery took place in October of 1997, so that's not that long ago for the company to have gotten with the times. Having just read a summary of that heist, the details in the film are amazingly accurate, right down to the picture of Elvis hanging over the fireplace of the Chambers home. Unbelievable.
As far as the movie goes, it's got it's share of hits and misses, with the funny parts coming across as slapstick more than anything else. I'm not a big fan of movies with Saturday Night Live alumni in them, and this one had a couple in Kristen Wiig and Kate McKinnon. Both were OK here and that's as much as I'll concede, but considering the inane nature of the story, they fit right in with the kind of forced humor the picture came up with.
For some real laughs, stick around for the outtakes following the film because they're funnier than the movie itself. You know, The Bowery Boys made a 1949 movie titled "Master Minds", and in comparing the two one would be hard pressed to decide which one had a dumber cast of idiots. In the Bowery Boys flick, Huntz Hall is gifted with a mind reading ability to predict the future. If he could have told us about this one coming out in 2016, we would have all been better forewarned.
As far as the movie goes, it's got it's share of hits and misses, with the funny parts coming across as slapstick more than anything else. I'm not a big fan of movies with Saturday Night Live alumni in them, and this one had a couple in Kristen Wiig and Kate McKinnon. Both were OK here and that's as much as I'll concede, but considering the inane nature of the story, they fit right in with the kind of forced humor the picture came up with.
For some real laughs, stick around for the outtakes following the film because they're funnier than the movie itself. You know, The Bowery Boys made a 1949 movie titled "Master Minds", and in comparing the two one would be hard pressed to decide which one had a dumber cast of idiots. In the Bowery Boys flick, Huntz Hall is gifted with a mind reading ability to predict the future. If he could have told us about this one coming out in 2016, we would have all been better forewarned.