July Movies & TV

Sometimes I feel like I should write a How To guide on how to respond to these entries.  Simply put, this isn't Match Game.  We're not doing a game show where you compare how many things you saw to what I wrote about.  If you want to make an empty comment like "I haven't seen these" then just write "Thanks for sharing" and move on.  Or don't say anything at all.

The better way to look at it is to read and consider whether you might want to watch a movie or if it sounds like crap.  Or maybe you heard of a movie but didn't get around to it and now maybe you will.

I'm sure sometimes I've done the lazy way too and I should do better.  We should all do better.

Now it begins!

In July Walmart offered Walmart+ for half price, which as I say is basically the same price as the included Paramount+ on its own, making the Walmart stuff just gravy.  So I got to catch up on the Paramount+ stuff I'd missed since the start of November.

Star Trek Discovery, S5:  This was the final season of the show and it was...OK.  The plot structure is mostly like one of those old GI Joe miniseries in the 80s in that the Federation has to find pieces of a device left by a group of scientists in the 24th Century.  (Or The da Vinci Code if you prefer.)  It unlocks a way to find the technology of "The Progenitors" who were an ancient race revealed in an old TNG episode to have seeded life throughout the universe.  It was basically a device for the writers to explain why most of the alien races all had the same humanoid look, though of course in real life it's just to save money on makeup.

Anyway, racing them are two former couriers named Moll and La'ak.  Moll looks like Shin Hati in Ahsoka for some reason; hey, makeup and wardrobe departments, there are other looks for young white women besides shaggy platinum blonde hair and lots of black eye makeup.  La'ak is a Breen without the helmet and armor.  And Moll is the daughter of Book's mentor.

After a couple of episodes, Saru leaves the ship to be an ambassador--what happened to his home planet and that kid who caused the Burn?  Isn't that why he left the first time?--so Burnham chooses a new first officer named Commander Rayner.  Rayner was Captain of a ship called the Antares but while trying to apprehend Moll and La'ak he went too far so they took away his command.  He's a really brusk, no-nonsense kind of commander, which rubs the touchy-feely crew of the Discovery wrong.

So they have to track down clues on some planet and Trill and stuff.  Moll and La'ak get captured by the Breen and so then they get involved.  Eventually everything leads to some black holes and lots of mayhem happens.  But don't worry, no one has to sacrifice her/him/themself for the good of the universe.  Only one of the bad guys dies.  Discovery gets to go on its merry way.

Most of it wasn't really that bad.  I really liked Rayner even if I missed Saru.  I know they had to minimize his time on the show as Doug Jones, like Peter Mayhew, was getting too old for this shit.  But like with Chewie couldn't they have replaced him in costume with a younger actor?  And maybe have Jones just dub the voice?  I guess as compensation they brought Tilly back pretty much full-time.  But Detmer and Owo make only a couple of appearances before getting written out entirely.

For the final season they don't exactly pull out all the stops.  There are no cameos from the original Trek shows or any of the other ones on P+.  There are two episodes in the middle of the season--one where Burnham and Rayner are bouncing through time and another where Burnham and Book find the alternate universe Enterprise in a sort of wormhole--where they could have had some cameos.  But we don't get an appearance by Lorca, Pike, Spock, Sarek, or Michelle Yeoh in either of her characters; we do get an appearance by Airiam, the cyborg officer who died in season 2, so, yay?

The chase for the Progenitors is interesting enough to keep things lively.  Like I was saying, the end is a little nauseating for how happy it gets.  It would have been fine if after Saru's wedding they beamed up to the ship to go on a new adventure.  But no, we get a nearly 15-minute epilogue about 40 years later with Admiral Burnham and Book living on some obscure planet when their son, who's a captain, of course, shows up to take Burnham for one final mission for Discovery to do...something.  It wasn't even like LOTR with all its goodbyes; it's of course just focusing on Burnham because who cares about anyone else, right?

Overall while it's good Discovery set the table for better shows like Lower Decks and Strange New Worlds, the shifts in tone and the 900 year jump made it hard to really connect to it.  And as I've said before it didn't do a great job building up the secondary characters.  I never really liked it as much as DS9 or TNG.  Still, it was mostly made well and the cast isn't bad. (3/5) (Fun Facts:  Rayner is played by Callum Keith Rennie who I'll forever know as "Fake Ray" from the 3rd/4th seasons of Due South but he's also been in sci-fi series like Battlestar Galactica and Man in the High Castle.  It's kind of funny that in the final episode Tig Notaro gets a "With" credit but then only appears in the background of one scene; it's sort of how Michael Douglas, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Samuel L Jackson just show up at the end of Endgame but get prominent credits anyway.)

HALO, S2:  I probably should have watched season 1 again because it sort of throws you in there and it's like, "Wait, who's that?  Who's that?"  I remembered the gist of the season that Master Chief finds an alien artifact and a human raised by enemy Covenant aliens gets another and they found the "Halo," a metallic ring in space.  The Chief had an AI called "Cortana" put into his brain and to save everyone he let Cortana have full control.

The season starts a month or two later when John wakes up to find Cortana has been removed.  He's put back on duty, but it's supposed to be "safe;" just watch over some troops evacuating civilians from the colony of Sanctuary.  But things go south and the Master Chief finds a Latina soldier named Perez.  He rescues her from some Covenant troops who have taken over a communications relay but then when it seems like the aliens are going to kill them, they suddenly leave.

From there there's a lot more intrigue than video game fans would probably like.  About half the season John, the Master Chief, doesn't even have his armor.  He's imprisoned on the capital world of Reach, where he tries to warn them that Sanctuary was just a dress rehearsal and the next attack is on Reach.  Soon enough, this comes to pass and John and others have to fight their way off the planet.

From there they go to a mining colony to lick their wounds before heading to Onyx, which is basically the new capital now.  John plans to get revenge, but then finds out the humans are launching a suicide attack on the Covenant that will destroy both sides and maybe the Halo too.  He launches into space to save the day and get to the Halo.  Meanwhile, a Resident Evil-type virus has been unleashed on Onyx.

That's leaving plenty of stuff out.  Like I said, if you just want frenetic video game battles--which are expensive to film--there aren't that many.  There are a few other subplots that again would help if you know who everyone is.  

I binged it over two days so I liked it well enough.  It's not great but there's enough action and intrigue to keep a more casual viewer like me entertained.  And I suppose purists would again be pissed that Master Chief doesn't have his armor much when in the game he's known for having it on all the time.  This does give Pablo Schreiber a chance to act a little more than just fight.  Natasha McElhorne returns as a less-mad scientist in the second episode.  Her former husband, an admiral, appears in a couple of episodes and their daughter shows up for the last couple of episodes to help unleash the killer virus.  Gee, thanks!

The effects are decent for a streaming TV show--and probably better than Quantumania.  If you liked the first season then there's no reason you shouldn't like the second season as it continues the plot, though of course not everything is resolved. Sadly, though, Paramount canceled the show, so unless someone else picks it up, there likely won't be a third season to resolve things.  (3.5/5) (Fun Facts:  As John and Perez are evacuating Reach, they shelter briefly in an antiques shop that has an old XBox on one shelf; the HALO video game series was of course made exclusively for XBox.  I hadn't looked Schreiber up on IMDB before but I found out he's Liev Schreiber's half-brother.  I was also thinking it's too bad he's not in that Gladiator 2 movie because at nearly 6' 5" and pretty buff he'd be good for maybe not the main gladiator but one of the other ones.)

HALO:  Fall of Reach: This 2015 animated movie uses creepy uncanny valley CGI for the people.  While it's called "Fall of Reach" it really has nothing to do with that.  It's mostly the origin of John the Master Chief.  Ironically for "fans" who whine about sticking to the source material, much of this--taken from a novel of the same name--was used in the Paramount+ show.

Dr. Catherine Halsey (who looks more like Cortana than Natasha McElhorne) recruits a bunch of six-year-olds, replacing them with self-destructing clones.  She and her military minions kidnap about a hundred kids and start training them to be soldiers.  Along the way a lot of the kids die.  John-117 soon becomes a leader and standout of the group.  Over the years that follow, they undergo dangerous missions.

More dangerous is when they're "augmented" with surgeries.  About 36% of the recruits don't survive, but the rest are able to get really sweet armor to help them be much stronger and faster than regular people.  At the same time, the Covenant aliens start showing up.

If you enjoy child abuse in lame CGI then this is great!  It basically takes the core concept of Ender's Game only instead of controlling fleets they become augmented soldiers.  It wasn't really great, but interesting to see how it compared to the TV show (2/5)

Lawmen:  Bass Reeves:  I caught the first two episodes on CBS last winter during the strikes and liked them well enough that I wanted to watch the rest. Bass (David Oyelowo) is a slave in Texas who fights in the Civil War--for the Confederacy though not really by choice.  Eventually he goes back to his master's ranch where he has a woman and a couple of kids.  One night Bass beats up his master and escapes.  Then he heads north, where a woman and her son take him in and he starts a new life until a former Confederate soldier named Esau (Barry Pepper) shoots the kid.

Bass moves into Arkansas and eventually his woman and kids join him and they can be married officially.  Bass is trying to scratch out a living as a farmer but it's not going so well.  Then one day he meets US Marshal Sherrill (Dennis Quaid) who offers Bass money if he goes along to catch some criminals as a "posse man."  Bass agrees and while he doesn't get along with the racist Sherrill they do the job.  And soon Bass is promoted to a Deputy US Marshal by Judge Parker (Donald Sutherland) which allows Bass to buy a new piano for his wife and no longer worry about farming.

The next episode skips a couple years ahead where Bass is taking people in for money.  He has his own "posse man" to help.  One of the guys they catch is Billy Crow, a Native American who's a small-time crook.  After a couple more years, Billy becomes Bass's posse man and falls in love with a hooker.  Meanwhile Bass survives some dangerous missions and makes plenty of money.  His wife keeps things together on the homefront while their oldest child Sally is falling in love with a boy named Arthur.

Slowly the major story point comes together as word spreads of black people disappearing.  Bass hears of someone called "Mr. Sundown" and finds out Esau is now a Texas Ranger.  When Bass turns over a live prisoner to Esau, the prisoner is reported as dead.

The penultimate episode is a little disappointing as Bass is charged with murder for shooting his wagon driver/cook after he let a prisoner go.  We really don't see much of the trial or process of finding evidence or witness testimony or anything.  The episode is also only about 30 minutes, which was maybe so they could make the finale a little longer.

In the finale, Bass, Sherrill, and Billy Crow confront "Mr. Sundown" while Bass's wife is visited by the wife of their old master.  The white woman naively assumes she can just waltz in there and re-enslave Bass's family because of a law passed back in Texas.  Bass's wife rightly slaps her and throws her out but realizes she needs to get more activist or else she and her family could end up in chains again. (Sound familiar in this election cycle?)

Overall things end pretty well.  I'm not a huge fan of Westerns but I liked this.  Dealing with a black Marshal brings up issues that haven't gotten a lot of play since Cleavon Little in Blazing Saddles.  Of course it's not really a "fun" show; Bass is pretty dour but then he really has a right to be. (3.5/5) (Sad Fact:  Since Donald Sutherland died recently I'm not sure what would happen if they do another season.  They could always recast Judge Parker or get a new judge or just write around anywhere a judge might be needed.)

Joe Pickett, S1:  This is I guess a Paramount Network series based on a book series that I might own some of but haven't read.  The eponymous Joe is a Wyoming Game Warden who gets a new post in the seemingly sleepy town of Saddlestring.  Soon Joe runs afoul of a local thug named Ote who takes his gun when Joe threatens to take his hunting license for shooting out of season.  Joe wrestles the gun away but a few days later Ote turns up dead on his woodpile.

More pieces are added to the puzzle including a black survivalist who burned off his fingerprints and raises falcons; a former game warden played by David Alan Grier who is kind of the one who gets everything started; a current game warden with big political hopes; a rich family called the Scarletts who of course are the real power in town; and weasels!  Joe's pregnant wife Marybeth helps him to investigate while also looking after their two daughters and butting into the lives of the thug from the beginning's wife and daughter.

It's kind of slow-building over the first 6 episodes or so but once most of the pieces are in place it begins to move faster.  There was one thing I really didn't like that mars attempts at a happy ending.  In the end I don't think all the bad guys (notably the Scarletts) get what's coming to them.  It's not as well-made (some of the animals look like they were made with bad CGI) or star-studded as Bass Reeves but it's still a good show if you like that kind of thing. (3/5)

Joe Pickett, S2:  Apparently the show moved to Paramount+ for season 2.  It starts about a year later.  The husband of a woman Marybeth is doing estate planning for has disappeared and so she asks Joe to go up to "Bermuda Mountain" to look.  Joe runs afoul of the "Grim Brothers," twins from the UP of Michigan who have become weird survivalists.  They kill Joe's horse and shoot him in the leg with an arrow.  He barely gets away.  But in the process the headless body of the guy Joe was looking for is found.

Soon Joe and Marybeth figure out that guys who were part of an annual hunting trip are being killed one-by-one.  At the same time a Native American man is looking for his daughter who has disappeared. The tribal authorities can't investigate because she didn't go missing on the reservation, but the sheriff's office won't investigate either because she lived on the rez, leaving her father and Marybeth to try to find her.

It's not as slow in building up as the first season and the end isn't quite as cruel.  There are numerous red herrings, twists, and turns before everything shakes out.  Again it mostly seems like the wealthy Scarletts get to skate while others are dead or hospitalized.  The one real loose end is David Alan Grier is let out of prison to help Joe with the case, but in about two hours escapes custody and...is never seen again.  Could Paramount not afford to bring him back for another episode to let us know where he went?

If you watch the first season and like it, then this is a good continuation of it.  I definitely wouldn't start here, though. (3/5) (Fun Fact:  In the first season when they brought up the title card they would have deer horns or some other animal on either side of Joe's name.  But in the second season they just use antlers.  I guess that was too expensive?) 

IF:  I really had no plan of watching this but it was "free" to stream so why the hell not?  Well, because it sucks and I have no idea who it was made for.  Like how a lot of comedies will push the best jokes in the trailers, this pushed the cutesy imaginary friends (IFs) in the trailer, making it seem like a kids movie.  Buuuuut, it's during the opening montage like Up that we find out the main little girl's mom died of cancer(?) and not long after we find out her dad is in the hospital for surgery.  That's just what kids want to see, right?

The girl named Bea moves to her grandma's apartment and starts to see IFs, who are being cared for by Calvin (Ryan Reynolds) because he can actually see them.  Then it starts to get into the stuff shown in the trailers where Bea and Calvin go through the IFs to make profiles.  They parade them to one kid in the hospital, who can't see any of them.

So then they decide to just give up on that and start uniting the IFs with their old kids who are adults now, starting with Bea's grandma.  And they do some more of that, which is supposed to be heartwarming, but why would you want to be reunited with your old imaginary friend?  Wasn't that the whole point of Drop Dead Fred like 30 years ago?  Then there's sort of a Sixth Sense twist and some other stuff and I just didn't find any of it funny or heartwarming or anything.  It's a serious misuse of Ryan Reynolds along with the voices of Louis Gossett Jr, Steve Carrell, Jon Stewart, George Clooney, Matt Damon, Awkwafina, Amy Schumer, and plenty more!  John Krasinski should probably just stick to making horror movies. (2/5) (Fun Facts:  Brad Pitt is listed as the "voice" for an IF named Keith--who is never actually shown, which is similar to Deadpool 2 where Brad Pitt played an invisible character in the one scene he's visible as he's electrocuted.  The most heartwarming moment is at the very, very end in the tribute to Gossett, Jr. who died in March.)

Knuckles:  Paramount's Sonic the Hedgehog movies were surprisingly decent all-ages entertainment--especially surprising after those pictures of "Ugly Sonic" first appeared.  In the second movie, Knuckles is a strong, fierce warrior who starts out trying to destroy Sonic until he, Sonic, and Tails join forces against Robotnik.

This six-episode series picks up a little while later.  While Sonic and Tails are enjoying their new home in Green Hills, Knuckles is restless, looking for a quest worthy of his warrior skills. After he inadvertently attacks a construction crew and destroys parts of the house and car, Knuckles is grounded.  Eventually he goes out and finds Wade Whipple (Adam Pally) who is a deputy from the previous movies.  Wade is beaten in a bowling tournament by a little girl and dropped from his team.  Knuckles offers to help him get to the tournament in Reno and win.

Meanwhile two agents of something called GUN in London are plotting to capture Knuckles and sell him to "the Buyer" who has plans for Knuckles' power.  The GUN agents run into Knuckles and Wade and capture Knuckles, but Wade's bumbling rescue attempt somehow manages to work.  Then they're on the run until the final showdown in Reno.

Overall it's a fun series though far from perfect.  There's really too much bowling and not enough development of "the Buyer" and what his goals are after he gets Knuckles' power or why he really wants it in the first place.  There's also not really enough Knuckles in Knuckles, but I suppose the CGI and Idris Elba are expensive.  Still, if you liked the movies it's an enjoyable 3-hour-ish addition to the Sonic universe. (3/5)

(Fun Facts:  In the first episode, Sonic, Tails, and James Marsden's wife--in the movies--all appear with accurate voices, though Marsden himself does not appear.  Knuckles' old master is voiced by Christopher Lloyd.  In a strange rock opera to teach Wade to be a warrior, his singing voice is dubbed by Michael Bolton.  Stockard Channing plays Wade's Jewish mother and Cary Elwes plays his estranged father, who many years ago left him at a TJ Maxx.  The two "ESPN 8" bowling announcers are played by Paul Scheer and Rob Huebel, who were both on FXX's The League, though only Scheer was a regular.)

Mission: Impossible: Dead Reckoning:  A fun fact is that I actually enjoyed the very first movie the most because it actually had some spycraft instead of just crazy chases on motorcycles and stuff.  And then with Ghost Protocol it became all about the insane stunts Tom Cruise would do.  Really that's mostly why people bothered watching to see on the big screen what sort of nutty thing he'd put his body through.

The problem with this seventh movie is it tries to do a lot of spycraft stuff and work in a current message about AI (actual, not ChatGPT) and there's not even a crazy stunt until the last act and it's not even that crazy.  And a fight on a train?  You did that in the first movie!  (Maybe others--I honestly don't remember.)  So most of the movie ends up pretty dull and I can see why people didn't really line up for it.

The basic story is that a Russian sub has the AI known as "the Entity" aboard when it sinks itself.  Months later, everyone is looking for two keys that form kind of a cross and can somehow control or destroy the AI.  Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is dispatched to find a woman who has one of the keys.  But things go sideways because of the AI messing things up.  Later they go to Italy and such and there's another brunette (Hayley Atwell) who's sort of a Catwoman type in that she's a thief trying to get out of the business and whatever.  And there's a blonde Asian woman named Paris(?) who is a bad guy and another blonde who's sort of an Emilia Clarke type who has a criminal empire or something and there's not much reason to care about any of it.

I think I mentioned with the last movie I have no idea about the women in movies 2-7.  They're basically all generic brunettes (sometimes blondes) who are sometimes good and sometimes bad.  And one was Ethan's wife.  Did she die or something?  Nobody seems to mention her.  I guess Hayley Atwell will be in the next movie as part of the IMF for whatever reason.

As I said there are a lot of attempts at spycraft with fake IDs, fake faces, and so on.  There's a sorta goofy car chase where Cruise and Atwell are handcuffed together in Rome and have to drive to escape the blonde Asian in a big Hummer or whatever.  That's about the only time when the movie tries to have fun.  Otherwise it's pretty dull.  You can see why they downplayed a sequel though it still says, "End of Part One." (2/5)

Lying and Stealing:  I didn't expect a whole lot from this movie since it apparently didn't even have money to get some washed-up A-lister like Bruce Willis, Mel Gibson, or John Travolta.  Maybe that's a good thing as they didn't have to come up with some token part for someone cashing a paycheck.

The overall story is maybe not that original.  A young thief named Ivan (Theo James) steals valuable statues, paintings, etc at the behest of a guy named Dmitri to try to pay off gambling debts his father racked up before dying.  Just a couple more jobs and he'll be out.

During a job in a rich guy's house, he runs into Elyse, who is an actress forced to do crappy movies because she rejected a sleazy producer.  Ivan steals a statue, but before he can leave a little girl sees him.  The next day Ivan has to pick up his brother Tom, who is bipolar and was in a halfway house until they got tired of him trading drugs with prostitutes.

Ivan runs into Elyse again during his next job and he uses her to help steal a painting.  Then he helps her to get out from under the producer.  Meanwhile an FBI agent (Isaiah Whitlock, Jr. of Cedar Rapids and other movies) uses a tip from the little girl to track Ivan down.  The agent wants Ivan to deliver Dmitri to him so he can get a big promotion.

The third act slows a little as everything comes to a head.  Ivan, Elyse, and Tom basically form a smaller Leverage team to get Dmitri.  Overall it's a fun movie if you like heist-type movies.  It could have been better with some better actors but it was decent with what it had.  And the production values are good too. There's probably never going to be a sequel (this is from 2018) but like Leverage there could have been plenty more adventures for this crew.  (3/5)

Last Looks:  This is another attempt at a quirky neo-noir story like Inherent Vice and so forth.  Charlie Hunnam is a former LAPD detective who has retired to the mountains, where he lives in a trailer with only 100 possessions.  But then a former lover (Deadpool's girlfriend, Monica Baccarin) shows up and wants him to help with a big case.  A TV star named Alistair Price (Mel Gibson) supposedly killed his wife but Monica Baccarin isn't sure.  Hunnam says no and his ex drives away and like Deadpool 2 it seems she's killed before the opening credits even roll.

What finally gets Hunnam into the investigation is a couple of thugs barging into his trailer and beating him up.  He meets with a sleazy TV exec (Rupert Friend), Price, and the kindergarten teacher of Price's kid.  There's also a thug named Don Q with an Inuit henchman and a cop named Big Jim Cuppy (Clancy Brown) who want Hunnam to butt out.

There are some twists and turns and a lot of Hunnam getting beat up.  It's not a bad movie, but I started to zone out a little.  There is a sort of happy ending that could set up a sequel, though I doubt it will. (2.5/5)

Inside Man:  Not the superior Spike Lee movie starring Denzel Washington and Jodie Foster.  This is a 2023 movie that really wishes it could be Goodfellas.  But it doesn't have Scorsese directing and De Niro. Peschi, Leotta, and so on starring.  Still, I've said before that a good copy of a movie can still be entertaining.

In the early 80s, an NYPD detective (Emile Hirsch) finds his wife with someone else and nearly beats the guy to death.  His gun is taken and he's put on administrative duty.  Frustrated, he gets drunk in a bar, where he saves a mob-connected drug dealer from being killed.  The drug dealer becomes his in to a mob operation running out of the Gemini Tavern.  With the tepid support of his captain, he's given an apartment for a base and a partner who helps to gather evidence as he infiltrates the club.

Soon he becomes "Bobby Bones" and is stealing cars and eventually even murdering guys for the mob.  Meanwhile there's also a bartender at the club (Lucy Hale) who becomes sort of his fuck buddy.  There's not really the cliche where he becomes so close to one or more of them that he finds it hard to give them up to the cops.  I don't think he ever would have had a hard time with that.  

Mostly it wasn't bad, but like Lying & Stealing it could have used some better actors.  The production values are good and Hirsch does a good job as the hotheaded Bobby who still wants to do his duty and win back his wife, though whether he deserves her and she deserves him (I mean, she cheated on him first) is something I guess left for people to decide for themselves.  I will say that compared to Goodfellas (or other Scorcese epics) at least this isn't much over 90 minutes. (3/5) ( Fun Fact:  At the end it goes through what happened to a lot of the guys in the movie.  Spoiler:  most of them died shortly after, though two at the time of the movie were still in prison.  They don't tell us what happened to Bobby and his wife, which is kinda lame.)

The Crash:  At only about 84 minutes this movie is short--but feels much longer.  There's a pretty good cast led by Frank Grillo as a finance guy named Guy Clifton who basically tried to take over the market, which led to him getting indicted.  His marriage to Minnie Driver is on the rocks while their daughter Creason has an unspecified cancer.

And then the government led by a guy named del Banco ("from the bank" if my Spanish is correct and played by Christopher MacDonald, so you have a pretty good idea who the villain of the piece is) find out someone is going to hack the stock markets and shut them down.  So they recruit Guy to use his particular set of skills to stop them.  He recruits his team, which includes John Leguizamo in a wheelchair and a guy named Ben who's banging Guy's daughter.

From there you have some drama and hooking up cords and hitting keys and stuff that's not all that interesting.  Given the runtime it really could have used a firefight and/or car chase at the end.  Someone grabbing Guy to try to convince him to stop.  That kinda thing to keep viewers from falling asleep because there still isn't really a good way to make computer stuff interesting in a movie. The end is pretty lame with Guy pretty much fucking up the whole world's financial system.  Yay?  So no action, none of the fun of a heist movie, and a downer ending.  This definitely could have stayed off my radar. (2/5) (Fun Fact:  This takes place in an alternate universe where Hillary is president; I'm not sure why they chose to mix real people with fake people.)