The same old story

Rating: 5/10 (31 December 2007)

I can't understand why this film has gotten such great reviews.
It was well made and entertaining, I'll grant, but it seems that I've seen dozens of films about someone or some people finding money then all the bad consequences that follows. How is this so different from A Simple Plan, or Shallow Grave, to name just two? This really wasn't anything new.
But it keeps being talked about as one of the year's best by all the critics. To be a great film, at least for me, it has to say something new or or say it so much better than it has been said before. I don't think this reaches that level.
Maybe people have lost their sense of imagination and are happy to see the same thing over and over again. Not I.
So I'm giving it a 5.