Now I'm a big bad bald guy in the process of holding the richest kids in America hostage for millions of dollars. Unfortunately, my entire plan is foiled by a teenaged kid on a skateboard. If the answer to these questions is no, then one wonders why the movie is, in fact, called Masterminds. One boy against a bunch of armed men, most of whom are foreign. The one place where it deviates from the Die Hard script is that no one dies .
Bullets fly everywhere, things explode, people scale rooftops and no one gets hurt .
The only true casualty is the school itself, which pretty much gets blown to bits. Shoddy masonry work. Throw in an Oscar winner as the crotchety old principle and perennial fan favorite Matt Craven as the kid's dad, and you've got yourself a fine cast. He owns every scene he's in, totally in command of the situation. From the moment he first contacts the authorities with his demands to his admiration of a kid who, in his eyes, could lead the next generation of master criminals to incredible riches, he is the man.