Just one leetle problem

Rating: 7/10 (16 February 2007)

We love these characters so much that we could forget that, even with all their wonderful personal qualities and noble motives, the movie suggests it is fine for the big money to be made in corruption and robbery. If the mayor and the bank president and the discrete Jodi Foster character are all 'compromised' then it should okay for bank robbers to be our heroes. And when they remember to give the good, honest cop a big diamond for his wedding ring, we can almost swoon. For here is this movie's answer to the world's problems: We can have fun and use our intelligence to make movies that even corrupt bank presidents and corrupt mayors will like. Okay, well, we can't base an entire economic system on it. But it had us charmed. And in the end, we don't quite have enough good news lately. It's not my favorite genre, or I'd probably give it an '8.'