Going in Style 2017

     This film is a remake of a 1979 movie directed by Martin Brest with George Burns, Art Carney and Lee Strasberg.  Joe, Willie and Albert are living on meager social security checks and retirement from the company they all worked for.  Willie learns his kidneys are very bad and he needs a transplant.  Joe is going to have his house foreclosed on soon.  They all learn that their retirement checks are stopping because the company is closing.  Joe is in the bank that has his mortgage and there is a robbery.  Three men make off with a LOT of money and the FBI does not catch them.  The elderly men decide they can rob a bank too and see if they can get away with it?

     Joe, Willie and Albert don’t know anything about robbing banks!!  They just feel cheated by life and if they want a piece of pie for dinner, they want to have one.  They don’t want to think they can’t have the pie because they are too poor to afford it!!  Joe can’t give up his house because his daughter and granddaughter live with him.  Where will they go??  The men could spend the rest of their lives in prison but they will get a free place to live, free food and better healthcare than they have now?  What’s to loose with that??  3 ½* (I liked this movie)

Note:  96 min, Comedy directed by Zach Braff with Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Alan Arkin, Ann-Margaret, Matt Dillon, Richie Moriarty, Josh Pais, John Ortiz, Jorge Chapa, Joey King, Maria Dizzia, Christopher Lloyd, Anthony Chisholm, Jeremy Bobb.

Note:  Imdb 6.6 out of 10, 49% critic 58% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Amazon 4.4* out of 5* with 405 reviews, Roger Ebert 2 1/2*, Metacritic 50 out of 100 with 31 critics 5.9 out of 10 with 67 reviews, Rolling Stone 2* out of 4*.

Special Note:  The movie the three guys are watching the night before the robbery is Dog Day Afternoon of 1975 and it’s about a botched bank robbery.  George Burns discovered Ann-Margaret in 1960.  The name of the bank is the Williamsburg Savings Bank.  There was a real bank with this name but it was taken over by HSBC Bank.  The bank interior shots were actually filmed in the WSB building in Brooklyn, New York and this building has landmark status.  Supposedly, the money was more than $2 million dollars.  They carried out the money in a few duffel bags?  This amount of mixed denomination bills could not fit into these bags.  It they did fit, the bags would weigh hundreds or thousands of pounds?