It's amazing how many WF films creep in among his others. Only seeing this movie for the first time, the other week, I only knew beforehand, from reading the cover, Friedkin directed this cute little crime flick. The movie which has a inventory of topline actors, who all give wonderful performances is based on fact, another thing I didn't know, about the two bid crooks, who pulled off the greatest bank heist in history, a few hiccups, prefore, as blundering their way to their objective, in some quite hard to believe blunders, which I'm frightened to believe this is fact too. This robbery had attracted much notoriety, the public praising and admiring the robbers, who are much suspect than the usual suspects, and are brought in, and I think you can gather what results, or might not result, where some astounding and approving facts revealed later, as if rooting for these guys,which is hard quite not too, despite, their illicitness. Falk is just super fantastic in this, an acting force to be reckoned with, while I liked Allen Garfield a lot in this too. The film is patchy here and there, and takes a while to get to where it's going. I was actually quite disappointed for the first third of it, but it picked up. For me, it's one of those films, where earlier in the peace, you really don't know where it's going, but as I said, it's a cute little film, and worth the rental fee. Don't snub it. My recommendation.
Review of The Brink's Job
