Great potential, but fails to deliver.

Rating: 5/10 (27 December 2010)

I saw this melodrama and I failed to get excited about it. For some reason I was unable to connect to the characters, nor to the story of this group of Boston native young Irish bank robbers. Even the bank robbery scenes seemed boring, despite of how cleverly they were devised. Despite that there is redemption for some of the characters' whose sad life stories I heard in the movie, I failed to feel any consolation even when revenge was exacted upon them. The love story between the kidnapped bank manager and the leader of gang was unrealistic, at least to me. What I think was also a goof in the film was that the bank manager lived in an apartment complex, but at the end of the movie she is seen digging in a garden that I never saw before in the film. Here she finds a duffel bag full of money and an orange that looked as fresh as if it were just picked off a tree, despite that weeks had gone by since her love interest left town. Steve H.