#GOING IN STYLE MOVIE#
Though they all have their grudges as well as the need for money, Joe’s pals resist his bank robbing scheme, but there would be no movie if they said no, so circumstances conspire and the caper is officially on. Tell him “life is short” and he’ll snap back, “Thanks for the reminder.”Īlbert is also something of a chef, and his shopping visits to the local Value Town market have caught the attention of the upbeat Annie (Ann-Margret), who somehow finds his cynicism attractive. Albert, on the other hand, is irascibility itself, a jazz saxophonist who once played with Stan Getz and never misses the opportunity for an acerbic reply. The essence of geniality, Willie pines for his daughter and granddaughter, who live out West and who he can’t afford to visit more than once a year. These three may not have voted for Donald Trump, but they share Trump voters’ pain.Īs luck would have it, Joe still hangs out with two pals from his assembly line days, Willie (Freeman) and Albert (Arkin), very different guys who share an apartment to save on rent. Not only has the amount of money available to be taken risen to seven figures (do banks even keep that much cash on hand?) but the rationalization for having these upright citizens break the law has been unconvincingly tied to contemporary frustration with a broken system that favors institutions over individuals.
Nothing wrong with that, times do change after all, but the results turn out to be less than stellar. Less a remake than a reimagining, the new “Going in Style” - written by Theodore Melfi and directed by Zach Braff - has upped the ante on every aspect of the original. Viewers with long memories will remember the original 1979 “Going in Style,” written and directed by Martin Brest and starring George Burns, Art Carney and Lee Strasberg as elderly parties who pull off a modest $30,000 bank robbery to relieve the tedium of their retirement lives. If anything, it uses its gifted veterans to disguise how tired, implausible and overly sentimental the proceedings turn out to be. But “Going in Style” never gets beyond mildly amusing. Yes, stars Alan Arkin, Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman are cinematic treasures, and seeing them riff on screen in this generic geriatric exercise is never less than pleasant. “Going in Style,” the story of a trio of bank robbers who are old enough to know better, may not be a federal offense, but it is certainly a misdemeanor.
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