All pseudo style, no substance, pretentious corny, cliched bollocks

Rating: 3/10 (19 December 2017)

Where to begin? People don't really commit these brazen daytime robberies these days, do they? Sub-machine guns blazing everywhere, a death toll of around 20 people in a relatively small American city...it just doesn't really happen anymore, at least not since the days of Bonnie & Clyde. In fact, the entire film from Baby's character to the personalities of the various gang members and the forced dialogue (sorry, people don't really talk like these characters) had little connection with reality, which is a shame because there were a couple of good ideas in there, like Baby's tragic back story and his need for music. And the cliches abounded, from the bog standard car chases to Baby's on-foot escapes. If it was intended to be some sort of Tarantino-esque exercise in style it failed miserably, coming across as pretentious twaddle. I like a good heist thriller, but would have liked to have something I could actually believe.