6/10
Good but flawed
6 November 2008
Warning: Spoilers
This is a good movie, a thriller, but there needs to be a lot of "suspended disbelief" on the viewer's part to make it work for you. And there are some unexplained circumstances that make the viewer pause and wonder. For example, the villain, played by Ross Martin, seems to be an evil genius who is a master of disguise, manipulation, and eluding the police and FBI. But if he's such a genius, why doesn't he rob the bank himself? And why is is trying to get a naive, inexperienced, lowly teller to do it? That just bothered me through the whole movie. It didn't fit. The energy he put into manipulating a naive teller into pulling a big bank heist could have been better put to use by doing the job himself. It's not a minor point I'm making; it's enough to get in the way of the movie. If that was better explained, it would have made it a much better film. I realize the point wasn't just a bank heist plot, it was terrorizing a scared woman into doing it. But it's a loose end that should have been better addressed.
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