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Life Of Crime - Movie Review
Director: Daniel Schechter
Genre: Comedy
Release date: August 29, 2014 (United States)
Run Time: 112 minutes
Cast:
- Jennifer Aniston as Mickey Dawson,
- Yasiin Bey as Ordell Robbie,
- Isla Fisher as Melanie Ralston,
- Will Forte as Marshall Taylor,
- Mark Boone Jr. as Richard,
- Tim Robbins as Frank Dawson,
- John Hawkes as Louis Gara,
- Charlie Tahan as Bo Dawson,
- Seana Kofoed as Kay,
- Chyna Layne as Loretta,
- Clea Lewis as Tyra Taylor,
- Jenna Nye as Shelly Taylor,
- Alex Ladove as Pamela Taylor,
- Leonard Robinson as Officer Dixon,
- R. Marcus Taylor as Borsalino,
- Kevin Corrigan as Ray
Review: You know what this film reminds me of? This reminds me of one of those birthday parties where your fun, moderately amusing. No wild fun, but enough to keep boredom. Suddenly, mid-term, the host of the drunken uncle block party and a fight, chaos everywhere. And you're sitting there asking yourself, "My God, why is this happening What would that kind of nonsense in this competition have? quite normal. "To explain this analogy very detailed, let me start from the beginning.
There are times when you're tired of other kinds of films. But even then, you know there is one kind that you can always count on: a comedy crime. There is something of a film that makes you laugh, but at the same time as you look forward to the inevitable twist in the story to end. Movies like Fargo, Pulp Fiction Trilogy of the ocean, or more recently, American Hustle and Wolf of Wall Street are obvious examples.
That said, the comedy should be fun and crime must be pretty crazy and quite different from other kinds of tons of movies. And that's where the criminal life takes a beating.
Life of crime, an adaptation of the novel The Switch, the borrower is part of many other films: the kidnapping of the wife (played by Jennifer Aniston), a rich man for ransom. The reason why many films are based on this premise, it still makes for a interesting watch. How the director is based on what makes or breaks the film. So, back to the analogy, the film is good enough in the first half, moderately nice to see. That's when the director Daniel Schechter (also writer of the film) decides to crash the party, and it's all downhill from there.
The man completely disappears from the scene, there is a romantic angle between a kidnapper and woman, another between the other abductor and loving husband and the third kidnapper just jump in and out of the picture at the push a button, director when, but spending a racist joke. The solution is shocking in the sense that, despite some options worth a thousand prisoners, the director chose one that makes no sense.
All said and done, there are moments of madness inspired in the first half, thanks to the good performance uniformly in all regions. Jennifer Aniston; Yasiin Bey, Will Forte and John Hawkes as the hijackers; Tim Robbins as the spouse; Isla Fisher as his mistress and Mark Boone Jr., all play their parts beautifully. While the film is never really funny (the other half of the type of crime comedy), all the actors bring irresistible charm for their actions.
