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The Art of the Steal

It takes a great artist to pull off the perfect con

Crisis Calhoun, a third-rate motorbike daredevil and part-time art thief, teams up with his snaky brother to steal i of the well-nigh valuable books in the world. Only information technology'southward not just about the book for Crunch — he's peachy to rewrite some capacity of his own past as well.

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The Blackness Marks, The Set, A Arte De Roubar, Мистецтво крадіжки, Мистецтво красти, Искусство кражи, Złodziejska sztuka

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Criminal offence, drugs and gangsters Crude sense of humor and satire High speed and special ops robbery, criminal, law-breaking, heist or cops comedy, funny, hilarious, humor or jokes machine, cars, activity, racing or speed prison, jail, criminal, convicts or violence violence, action, guns, cops or killing Show All…

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First of all I am a huge Kurt Russell fan. And so when I tell you I liked this moving picture please keep that in heed. The Fine art of the Steal is about a grouping of art thieves and the regime that are trying to take hold of them. Is this a not bad flick? Of form not....but it is a fun motion picture. Kurt Russell plays Crisis Calhoun (I could easily come across his Jack Burton character from Big Trouble in Little China in this role) a con-man looking for a final large score. His crew is fabricated upwardly of Matt Dillion, Jay Baruchel, Kenneth Welsh and Chris Diamantopoulos. Meanwhile Terrance Stamp plays a convict helping go along tabs on Russell'southward crew.

In that location are many twists and…
I hateful, yes, it'southward stylistically derivative of other (better) heist comedies, and it looks equally if it was done on the inexpensive. Merely information technology has some clever bits, a few solid laughs, Matt Dillon stealing from a nine yr-onetime, and Kurt Russell equally stunt cyclist / fine art thief (say it with me) CRUNCH CALHOUN.

Information technology's perfectly adequate for what it aspires to be.
I had to cap the evening off with something mildly mindnumbing and entertaining, and this seemed to fit the bill.
The cast enjoy themselves, especially Russell judging by the bloopers in the end credits, and even if you lot sort of see what's coming every step of the fashion, I had fun too.
Stamp, Dillon, Russell and Baruchel. That'll exercise for me!
Wasting the charisma of Kurt Russell on a ho-hum story and a bleached bland production, "The Art of the Steal" is difficult to sit though. The heist one-act is dandy at all, but the story of art thieves rolling through Europe and its vanilla storytelling offer the sloggiest of slogs. The film's liveliest moments, of which at that place are several cheers to Russell and the e'er-game Jay Baruchel, dissipate into a flatness generated by generally unlikable characters and specifically uninvestable situations. The moving-picture show, again, may not exist bad, but information technology is a job.
back to watching corny Kurt Russell movies, and this one I actually can say is a sleeper. typical kind of heist picture, with some humor and twists. I rather enjoyed this.
totally watchable Sea'S knockoff. not demonstrably dissimilar from a high-cease USA airplane pilot, but also has a PREDATOR 2 joke, then yep, i'll have it.
Dreadful championship, dreadful affiche, dreadful film.

Much similar Nebraska last night, I largely watched this for one actor, that player beingness Kurt Russell. Simply even Sir Kurt couldn't relieve this crime comedy from being total shit. So much so that I wasn't even sure I could be arsed doing a proper review of it and I was only going to do a one-liner review. Probably "The Fart Of The Steal lol" is how information technology would have read, in example y'all were wondering.

It really isn't very skilful. Exterior of the expected entertaining atomic number 82 functioning by Russell and good support turns from Jay Baruchel and Kenneth Welsh, it wastes many others in a pretty packed cast equally well as shoving a…
Heist movies invariably have to be very clever to be convincing. The bigger and more audacious the offense, the more complex the plot has to be. With that in mind, manager Jonathan Sobol's The Fine art Of The Steal tries to be a little too clever in its plotting. It lost me at times, entertaining information technology may be, but confusing as well.
With a decent cast that includes Matt Dillon and Kurt Russell every bit the main protagonists, this sees a group of art thieves and forgers try to outdo each other in the ane-up-man-transport stakes following a botched chore in Poland sees Russell'southward Crunch Calhoun do over five years in jail. Back in u.s. afterwards doing his time, he goes dorsum…
46/100

The Dissolve review. I don't empathise how movies similar this get made. Nobody could possibly think it was going to make much coin; at the same time, though, information technology's not even remotely a passion project. It feels like everyone involved but had naught better to practice, just it'southward non as if making a feature film is like going bowling. Anyway, thoroughly forgettable heist pic with a few fun moments courtesy of the cast.
I've mentioned the Lord Hobo Brewing Visitor in Woburn, Massachusetts, before. They are doing God'southward piece of work, making a multifariousness of India Pale Ales, all fantabulous, and almost high-powered double strength IPAs. I am an experienced beer drinker, and yet if I have more than a couple of Lord Hobo Boomsauce DIPAs, I am starting on a road to ruin. This fall, Lord Hobo has released a express edition variation on Boomsauce called Doomsauce. I have had four of those 16-ounce bad boys in the terminal 90 minutes.

On a completely unrelated note, I am watching The Art of The Steal.

Kurt Russell is Crunch Calhoun: office time fine art thief, function time county off-white Evel Knievel knockoff. Part of Crunch's deed…
Von allem irgendwie nichts.
Nicht unspannend, nicht unkreativ, nicht unclever, nicht schlecht besetzt, dazu auch noch nicht langweilig oder zu lang
Dafür durchaus humorvoll und leichtfüssig,
Spaßige kleine Heist-Spielerei, deutlich hochwertiger und professioneller als es der farblose Kanada-Television-Look mancherorts suggeriert.

Den Twist könnte ich zwar in all seiner Komplexität nicht wieder vollständig wiedergeben, macht dafür aber deutlich mehr Spaß in nach gerade mal 75 Minuten in aller Pracht präsentiert zu bekommen.
Das Switchboard, an dem der im Author's Room aufgedröselt wurde hätte ich gerne mal gesehen.

Positiv-klassischer "Kann-man-auf-jeden-Autumn-mal-machen-Film"
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Director: Jonathan Sobol
Screenwriter: Jonathan Sobol
Cast: Kurt Russell, Jay Baruchel, Chris Diamantopoulos, Matt Dillon, Katheryn Winnick, Terence Postage, Devon Bostick & Kenneth Welsh
Runtime: 90 min // Certificate: fifteen

If you've seen one antic film you've seen them all. There's only then many times you can picket a agglomeration of apparent misfits cobble together an intricate programme to steal X, Y or Z before it grows tiresome, and though The Art of the Steal is a perfectly enjoyable niggling romp, it suffers heavily from this fatigue of familiarity.

That the flick relies and so steadfastly on all the classic tropes of the caper genre is both its great success and fatal weakness. It's a unproblematic,…