The robbery entertainment at it's best

Rating: 9/10 (9 April 2006)

Very well made, smooth and light action-comedy entertainment. Good actors. This is maybe what Steven Soderberg would do, if he just could. This is not just some brainless buddy-comedy, like the movies of the mentioned (I mean the "Oceans'11,12,13..."). This movie's characters are a little more realistic: They have dreams, pasts, feelings and everything. One problem with movies that have as much (main) characters as this, is that of course the characters cannot be very deep or developed.
The money fetish is an interesting issue in these movies. But maybe it's just as good fetish as anything: People must have (or at least they very often want to have) something that gives their life some goals, excitement, hobbies... And like in this case, the money comes connected (after a tragic incident) to everything in these people's lifes, so deeply that they are ready to risk their lifes for it.
I would say this movie is very much like the best few of the James Bond movies. The same kind of entertainment. Of course there is nothing political here, like in the Bond movies. It's all about the money...