Don't believe the hype

Rating: 4/10 (10 June 2017)

Saw it and, aside from a fun pre-title chase scene, this movie is wildly overpraised. Ansel Elgort is not the next big thing and the story, which revolves around three heists, is a real nothing burger. Jon Hamm and Jamie Foxx are both fine acting like bad ass tough guys, but their characters aren't original enough or interesting enough and the dialogue isn't consistently clever/cool enough to sustain the movie (there's only a handful of funny lines; Kevin Spacey gets the best one). The Usual Suspects, The Town, and Heat did it all MUCH better. The romance between Elgort and Lily James aims for sweet and mostly misses, but she's awfully cute and manages to make her time on screen pleasant. If you're expecting a lot of great car chase scenes you will definitely be disappointed. There's really only a couple and, as I said, only the first is impressive. Honestly, while watching it I was wondering what all the fuss was about. This is yet another example of people being swayed by movie critic peer pressure to praise a movie just so they can be part of the in-crowd, a member of the cool club. The truth is: the movie ain't all that.