The Misfits (2021) just sort of jumped off of the Short Wait section of my queue. Not one I was waiting and hoping for.
Nick Cannon narrates - it's about a group of ethical thieves and grifters who steal to right injustices. They recruit master thief Pierce Brosnan for a big job - a vault full of gold under a Spanish prison. There is some international travel (Dubhai for some reason) and of course, a lot of suavitude from Brosnan, but the whole heist thing is ridiculoous.
I won't insult you by discussing it, and also I don't remember much of it. But there is a Maltese Falcon involved, and in fact they do melt the gold down and mold it into the falcon, and get it out that way. Which was supposed to have been improvised by the gang, although they had brought smelting equipment and mold making gear. So, more Lavender Hill Mob.
I don't actually hold it against Rennie Harlan that he directed this mess. Some of the direction was quite good, in an action-blockbuster kind of way. Brosnan seemed to be sort of phoning it in, and the rest of the cast weren't doing great work either. But most of the problem was with the story - it wasn't clever on any scale. The basic scheme was lousy, the good-guy criminals is overdone (even in Leverage), and there weren't any cool scenes or clever quips.
This wasn't a made-for-Netflix production, or anything like that, but it had that feel. Here are some names, and what is technically a script. Take a pile of money and film it. People will watch anything. Well, I did.
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