Hands up! it’s a heist and who doesn’t love a good heist movie. The genre is vast and they just keep on coming.
Recently I saw Widows, disappointing – too much Her and not enough Heist. On Saturday I went to The Old Man & the Gun, starring and produced by Robert Redford. The title alludes, I suppose, to Hemmingway’s novel. If I may digress, Plum often alluded to other men’s flowers whether in literature or art: Good-bye to All Cats and The Pig at Bey et al. The last rather good new heist movie I saw was Baby Driver. It has lots of heists and car chases. At the other end of the age spectrum, Robert Redford likewise delivers. A multitude of bank robberies, sixteen break-outs from the can ( I mean prisons not lavs) and there’s time for an engaging love story; all packed into 90 minutes. It’s a heart-warming charmer.
In the film a bank manager is questioned about the robber, played by Redford. He says he is maybe fifty or sixty and a real gentleman. Well, the eighty-two year-old producer and star does get a say about the script. But don’t be put off, it’s a magnificent feel-good movie for the older generation. Now I’m itching to rob a bank, especially as I need cash. My card has been cancelled after an attempted withdrawal from an ATM in Mumbai.