Foolproof

Plot synopsis:
The movie starts with Kevin (played by Reynolds), Sam (Booth) and Rob (Jarsky) playing a game, known as "Foolproof", in which they create working plans to infiltrate and burgle various targets. They do not actually execute these heists, preferring to simply simulate them. The rules of the game include the three of them to have the necessary technical and physical abilities to carry out the tasks required for the heist, and they cannot use a loaded gun.
All is fine until a famous criminal, Leo Gillete (Suchet), breaks into Sam's apartment, steals the trio's plans for a jewelry warehouse heist and accomplishes it. He then blackmails the group into designing and executing a plan to steal $20 million in bonds from a bank. Since he has evidence incriminating them in the plans, they accept.
Tension escalates within the group as Rob befriends Leo, while Kevin and Sam attempt to hinder his plans. They get the security codes to the safe and successfully switch the bonds. But the situation turns against them when Leo and Rob force them into an elevator and crashing it. Leo goes down and retrieves the bonds and shoots Sam.
It is later revealed that the gun had been switched and was loaded with blanks. Sam and Kevin get up and are greeted by Rob who was in on the plan the whole time. When Leo gets back to his place, he sees a fire started by the gang to destroy evidence against them and planted evidence against Leo on the latest burglary. Leo is taken in custody while the friends drive away in their car.

Tags: comedy, humor, flashback

Review:
Finally, a heist movie that doesn't have any noticeable plot holes, intriguing concept, and for Canadian viewers, doesn't attempt to hide a major Canadian city as somewhere in America.
So "Foolproof" came as a pleasant treat- there is a MAJOR twist in the plot that you will just have to watch for yourself.Watching "Foolproof" was like reading a nice mystery novel on a winter afternoon, (as it happens, I saw this movie on a snowy afternoon!)If this is the future of Canadian film, more please!.
Kevin (Ryan Teynolds), Sam (Kristin Booth) and Rob (Joris Jarsky) are best friends and they develop plans of foolproof heists as a game since the times of the university, but without having the intention of executing it.
Sooner, the mobster Leo Gillette (David Suchet), who has stolen the jewelery following the plan developed by the group, blackmails them with the following proposition: they have to steal US$ 20,000,000.00 in bonds from a bank, and he returns the stolen project of heist to them.
Kev, Sam and Rob decide to join the gang, afraid of going to the jail."Foolproof" is a surprisingly good action movie.
The story, full of plot points and betrayals, is engaging and recalls movies like "The Italian Job", "The Sting", or "Confidence", among others.
The heists (and camera/editing), while not exactly Mission Impossible, are innovative and exciting, and although you always know what's going to happen it's a fun ride getting there.Foolproof doesn't have the same star-quality you might find in some bigger releases, but the film looks crisp and colourful with good (eg.
believable, unobtrusive) special effects, and there are plenty of films - and big-name directors - who could learn a thing or two about getting sparky performances, and a pacy, neat little caper..
Too often has Toronto doubled for other cities in films, it was refreshing to see the "T dot O" being its good old self.Until I saw this movie, Ocean's 11 (the remake, not the boring original) was hands-down favourite heist movie.
I don't want to spoil anything, but suffice it to say that the plot surrounding the heist and the "thieves by mistake" is brilliant, twisting, and...foolproof!The characters were expertly played, with Ryan Reynolds really shining in his performance.
His comic timing blended very well with the tense heist drama.The great part about FoolProof is that, unlike Ocean's 11, it didn't try to hype itself up with some veteran all-star cast to try and sell more tickets.
I didn't know all that much about it and I went in thinking that there was a good chance that I was not going to like this movie.But I was surprised.
That's not to say that there weren't gadgets and neat props used to pull of the heists - just not a plethora of things like you would see in a huge budget Hollywood movie.
The setup, a trio of twenty-something friends making a game out of planning the perfect crime without actually any intention of pulling them off, was at least a refreshing start to a caper movie.
They are not looking to score diamonds and make it rich - they are satisfied with knowing that they outsmarted the security companies and that they could pull off these jobs if they didn't have morals and a respect for the law (they are just desk-jockies).I thought that the acting was well-done and the roles were believable.
The script was pretty good and at least there wasn't a bunch of cheesy one-liners and awkward dialogue (although I too found that they said "foolproof" more times than warranted).All in all I would have no problem recommending this to anyone.
I loved this movie.Foolproof is a pretty intelligent caper film that rises above standard caper/action movies that you get from, say, Arnold Schwarzenegger.Acting: It was very good, but the acting from Ryan Reynolds was great.
While not up to the pace and drama of The Italian Job or Heist,this made for cable epic is redeemed by a nice twist ending.Kristin Booth as the female lead has charm and presence.
Her smile lights up the screen and she looks capable of the part played by her character, with a well muscled build unlike the typical stick woman of Hollywood.David Suchet, who you may remember as the cop in A Perfect Murder, underplays the villain well though the other leads struggle more with the wooden dialogue.A diverting way to spend some time.
Enter bad guy, played with the stereotypical menace by David Souchet, another good actor whose talents were wasted by the director.
The problem is that like many great caper films, the script has to be airtight.
They blew their load on one or two scenes and the rest of the film looks like a TV movie.
Every joke is telegraphed, no character has any original quality whatsoever and the suspense sequences are completely lifted from everything we've already seen in a hundred other films.I can understand the need for Canadian cinema to compete with American cinema.
It's apparent from the opening sequence that everyone involved in the production is trying to be cool, instead of actually being cool.As a TV series pilot, this might not have been bad -- expectations are lowered, and the characters don't need to be as fleshed out yet as they should be on the big screen.
The story after all is interesting; a couple of people pretending to do heists get caught by reality.With such a plot one takes into account a certain level of disbelief and far fetched events but this movie however takes the level just a bit too far.
Careful planning goes into their ideas and everything must be solved by real solutions, not just "oh, I have this magic device that allows me to bypass the entire security system."I found the plot interesting and more intelligent that most heist movies I've seen recently.
Watch this if....you enjoy heist films with twists and turns.
This movie reminds me of a poor man's Oceans Eleven (2001) in some of it's presentation and story telling.Acting/Casting: 6* - Ryan Reynolds does a great job in the lead role and comes across very convincing as the mastermind behind his group's heists.
Kristin Booth and Joris Jarsky are average actors at best and I would have liked to have seen others in their roles, but an 8 million dollar budget doesn't offer a ton of options.
I really liked David Suchet, who I felt played the nemesis role extremely well.Directing/Cinematography/Technical: 6.5* - The directing is pretty good and the movie has an OK pace to it once it gets going.
A glaring issue with the film is the music, which is terribly out of place and doesn't fit the film whatsoever.Plot/Characters: 6.5* - Kevin (Reynolds) and his crew are planning a big jewel heist, but end up having their heist plans stolen and have to pull off a job for a vicious gangster in order to not have them turned over to the authorities.
It is a different take on the heist genre and this is a well written story.Entertainment Value: 6.5* - As mentioned, if you can get past the slow first 30 minutes or so, then the movie is a good watch.
If you turned an intelligent writer loose on "The Perfect Score" or "Catch That Kid" to gave these traditional heist pictures some "Enemy of the State" flavor and misdirection (and some good dialogue), you would end up with something like "Foolproof".
The group includes Ryan Reynolds, Kristin Booth, and Joris Jarsky; all Canadian and all unknown to me.
After "The Perfect Score," "Catch That Kid" and now "Foolproof," it would appear that the heist film genre is in dire need of either a blood transfusion or, at the very least, some serious mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
The movie is so utterly slapdash in appearance and style and so utterly devoid of meaning and purpose that one wonders why any studio would ever even have bothered to release it.Is there really much point in watching a caper film about a trio of Pollyana-ish "criminals" who spend all their time tsk-tsking those involved in committing an actual crime?
We in the audience are smart enough to know right from wrong even when we're watching a heist film and don't need a bunch of can't-get-with-the-program moralists spoiling all the fun for us."Foolproof" lives up to only the first half of its compound word title..
Sadly writer/director William Phillips must have felt the need to take the name of the film to heart in every literal way as the movie, about three friends who find themselves getting in over their heads after someone steals their bank heist plans, feels the need to hold the audiences hand every single step of the way, explaining everything that happens in the movie and thus dumbing it down exponentially.
Great, I really enjoy this film the plot line was really genuine and the acting was good.
Foolproof is about two guys and a girl starting Rayan Reynolds from "Two Guys a Girl and a Pizza Place" ironically enough, who plan heist to rob jewelry stores and bypass their security systems but never actually go through with the plan its just for fun, or so they thought.Every thing was great until one of their plans gets stolen and the robbery actually takes place, now with all the evidence pointing to them they are approached by the guy who stole the file telling them that they have to due a job for him or he will turn the papers with their finger prints all over them to the police, whats one to due?Foolproof a great heist type movie good on the chills, action and every now and again comedy, over all you cant miss this one..
The plot is full of thrilling & subtle twists and the fast pace of the movie keeps you hooked until the end [and if you do get bored, then you have the gorgeous Kristin Booth to admire :-)]Though numerous dialogues are quotable, but the one when Kristin blurts out in exasperated anger "That little thief!!!!!!
this no name, no budget mystery caper surprisingly is a solid piece of film-making with an excellent plot twist, taut writing and acting along with a good music track.
The characters could have been more refined and restrained in a few places, but overall this a good "see" if one is looking for something exciting when it comes to crime films - a sort of mini Oceans 11 or 12 on a smaller scale without all the big action.
Foolproof is a lower budget Canadian heist film.
Foolproof is decent but not completely original, and at times feels like a made for TV movie, or television series.Even at an early stage in his career, we could see the star potential in Ryan Reynolds.
Although the screenplay tries mightily to justify their expensive self- indulgent role-play games, it comes across as nothing more than an elaborate and not particularly credible set-up, allowing a vicious criminal to hijack their plans, implicate them in the crime and extort their cooperation in an even more elaborate heist.
Production values are superior to those of a television movie or low-budget independent film, but not on par with most action/heist films.
Surprisingly, the film entertains at a level that was unexpected.The trio of theorists that devise such an elaborate plan are Kevin (a before really famous Ryan Reynolds), Sam (Kristin Booth) and Rob (Joris Jarsky).
FOOLPROOF was recommended to me by blockbuster and i thought lets have a look.This movie is simple pure script no special effects and no artsyvisual effects.
But the (to me until this movie unknown) trio Ryan Reynolds, Kristin Booth and Joris Jarsky hook on to his -as always superb- level of acting, and with success.The story is refreshingly original, and contains so many turns that any word on the content would be a spoiler, so I'd say: see for yourself!This movie breaths a non-Hollywood atmosphere (it is Canadian), and that also was one of the assets for me.
For the first 50 minutes, everything about this movie had been done better by other films.
The little jokes started to get infinitely better, the acting improved greatly, and the mandatory heist movie twist was pulled off spectacularly.
What the film lacks in three-dimensional characters, it makes up for with excellent pacing and enjoyable heists.
While most of the movie was enjoyable...I rather that Ryan Reynolds character been more smartassed, and less angry.
Three friends Kevin (Ryan Reynolds), Sam (Kristin Booth) and Rob (Joris Jarsky) play a game they call Foolproof.
And on top of that, they are blackmailed by the real thief Leo 'The Touch' Gillette (David Suchet).This is a Canadian production trying to play in the big leagues.
Ryan Reynolds, Kristin Booth, Joris Jarsky, Sean Sullivan, and David Suchet star in "Foolproof," a 2003 Canadian film.Reynolds, Booth, and Jarsky play Kevin, Sam, and Rob, who live in Toronto and play a game called Foolproof.
So what Leo wants in exchange for the plans is for the group to actually rob $20 million in bearer bonds.This is a very engaging film, with young actors who seem to have a lot of chemistry with one another; one truly believes they are friends as they laugh, yell at one another, bicker, and tease.
Foolproof is your typical heist film but with a nice "beginners" element.
Ryan Reynolds plays Kevin, a cutish little cubicle nebbish who in his spare time, plans, devises and pretends to hack banks, jewelry stores and the like with his two friends - Kristen Booth as the wired and angry Samantha, and Joris Jarsky as the nerdy, unkempt and slimy techie Rob. Let me impress upon you the seriousness of what they do.
Honestly, its like going to see "Batman" and having him say "I'm Batman" everytime he meets someone new...we get that the movie is called Foolproof, you don't need to beat us over the head with it.
My main problem in the first five minutes of the movie is that they do not give any screen time explaining how they got layout plans of the building, technical specs and blueprints of the building high security system, technical and chemical knoeledge enough to be able to recreate and then defeat these systems, or any real reason why a bunch of people would do this.
With the threat of turning over the plans to the police, one "Leo the Touch" , played with seething menace by David Suchet, blackmails the three into pulling a very big, very real heist.While blackmail is nothing new, in Foolproof it is a useful mechanism for forcing our three 'ordinary' protagonists into unusual situations.
The movie is actually so good and so bad at the same time.
I'd give it zero, but IMDb won't let me.This is another crappy Canadian film from our so called friends up north who in all this time have not yet learned how to make a movie without our help.Canadians keep hiding behind their weaker dollar and their lack of budget compared to Hollywood films, but this is an $8m film (Canadian dollars, but 2003) and it looks like it was made by some Youtubers.None of the actors, who are presented as some sort of Ocean's 11, know how to use a gun.
They work days and train nights to pull heists, but because they're good Canadians, they'd never actually go through with such a thing.A movie that wants the coolness of robbers and heist gangs but wants the morality and goody-little-two-shoes of Canadians.
Much better than Oceans 11 and 12...This movie also has one of the best actors working today.
this film showed he could play in action stories, with his humor always presented in a right direction.The most valuable thing in this movie is it's plot.
I would like to see Ryan Reynolds get more starring roles in bigger movies..
NOT) heist movie, as a group of three friends who devise intricate robbery plans for a hobby are suddenly force-recruited by the criminal elite of Toronto (don't laugh - we got mafia too) to pull off their latest crime scenario for real.Naturally, with the intelligence in the group you know they will turn the tables, but the fun is trying to figure out how they do it, which the movie does a reasonable job of keeping hidden until the end.There are some predictable gaffs along the way, like the excruciatingly long time they take to get under some security lasers when they have already shown they are skilled enough to have just turned them off, and the fact that if your going to fake your own death, you really need to know ahead of time how the bad guy is going to do it so you can plan it!
All in all very well written, look for some great acting from Kristin Booth as the super sexy ninja-girl and William House as the sinister mobster crime boss trapping them in the plan.Do NOT watch Ryan Reynolds, this guy should go back to modelling..
While (Kristin Booth) was a very very talented actress (I usually say talented only), (David Suchet) did good work despite the fact that he's not my cup of tea, and (Joris Jarsky) was near to flawless, (Ryan Reynolds) wasn't as good.
Either way, it is more clever and better done than most films of its sort nowadays.FOOLPROOF is about three 20-somethings (Ryan Reynolds, Kristin Booth, Joris Jarsky) who each have special skills that combined give them the ability to break into any "foolproof" security system.
Then, their plans for their next big "job" are stolen and they are threatened to be exposed by a local, shady businessman (confidently played by David Suchet) unless they actually go through with them and help him steal 20 million dollars.I found this film to be refreshingly funny without devolving into stupidity or even absurdity, given its premise.
The 3 leads Reynolds, Booth, Jarsky have excellent chemistry and you believe that they are really good friends who have been doing this for a while.