fun with old boys

Rating: 6/10 (1 January 2005)

Don Cheadle is Basher, who is brainy and appropriately important here. Elliott Gould is Reuben, the token Jew and a fussbudget. Carl Reiner is Saul, I guess another token Jew, older and using his rank as senior citizen to issue ex-cathedra statements and to kvetch now and then when things become irritating. There's the small Chinese kid - Yen (Shaobo Qin) - who can squeeze into tight spaces, and speaks only his native language, but appears to be understood by his companions. Scott Caan grins a great deal and has a way too short haircut. And it goes on, and on and on. I'll leave it to you to figure out how many more of the performers you care to memorize by name.
Here's the thing. Our boys have decided to steal one of the great Tiffany Easter eggs once owned by the Imperial Romanov family of Russia. But another major bad guy is after it, too, and getting to the egg requires going through a maze of electronic lights, the sort of thing we saw in the two excellent Tom Cruise movies, but even more gawkingly impressive here.