Sam Phelan and his wife Leslie are facing financial problems to pay their mortgage after a period of unemployment.
While driving his old Buick below an overpass, a case falls onto the hood of the car and he finds that there are more than six hundred thousand dollars inside.
Sam and Leslie quit their job; pay their mortgage; buy a Land Rover; and refurnish their house. Meanwhile a British criminal arrives from London to visit his brother Reeve in jail.
He tells his brother that he threw the stolen money away to destroy the evidences of the heist, and saw a Caucasian in an old car retrieving the case.
Pyke chases and finds Sam and partially retrieves the money, but more than seventy-four thousand dollars have been spent by the couple and Pyke wants them to refund the amount in five days.....
it starts off really well, a totally offbeat movie, that could be lost in any genre, but soon turns into a by the book thriller. Bean owns this movie from the moment he appears, and he is the reason that this film works. he is menacing without showing it, and Obessessed with money, which is clearly shown from the number of times he easily deducts sums of money in his head.
But where Bean succeeds, the the other two stars fail miserably. Hemsworth starts out really good, but by the beginning of the third act, he's annoying, and it feels like he is copying his lines. Bean asks him to do do something, Hemsworth says no, menacing look from Bean, so on and so on.
Halfway through the film, in my opinion, Leslies character should have been killed, as she is the most annoying on of all, not knowing which side to bat for, and embarrassingly enjoying the robberies.
So for the first half of the film, it's a superb satire on the media, bending stories about money, and obsession.
The rest lets it down, but well worth seeing for Bean.
While driving his old Buick below an overpass, a case falls onto the hood of the car and he finds that there are more than six hundred thousand dollars inside.
Sam and Leslie quit their job; pay their mortgage; buy a Land Rover; and refurnish their house. Meanwhile a British criminal arrives from London to visit his brother Reeve in jail.
He tells his brother that he threw the stolen money away to destroy the evidences of the heist, and saw a Caucasian in an old car retrieving the case.
Pyke chases and finds Sam and partially retrieves the money, but more than seventy-four thousand dollars have been spent by the couple and Pyke wants them to refund the amount in five days.....
it starts off really well, a totally offbeat movie, that could be lost in any genre, but soon turns into a by the book thriller. Bean owns this movie from the moment he appears, and he is the reason that this film works. he is menacing without showing it, and Obessessed with money, which is clearly shown from the number of times he easily deducts sums of money in his head.
But where Bean succeeds, the the other two stars fail miserably. Hemsworth starts out really good, but by the beginning of the third act, he's annoying, and it feels like he is copying his lines. Bean asks him to do do something, Hemsworth says no, menacing look from Bean, so on and so on.
Halfway through the film, in my opinion, Leslies character should have been killed, as she is the most annoying on of all, not knowing which side to bat for, and embarrassingly enjoying the robberies.
So for the first half of the film, it's a superb satire on the media, bending stories about money, and obsession.
The rest lets it down, but well worth seeing for Bean.