Has a lot going for it. Maybe a little overly serious though I get why the tone is what it is, just could use a bit of levity at times.
Struggled a bit with the way the audience is kept in the dark over things. Its one thing to not know something has been hidden from you and have it revealed later, its another to know you've not been given all the info and frustratingly sit through scenes that haven't set contextual foundation for me to invest any emotion into it. For example, at one point Davis' driver (my guy Garrett Dillahunt) is killed and we get a scene where Davis breaks the news to one of the other women and we get her reaction to it... but until that point they hadn't met on screen. We didn't know they knew each other at all, let alone she had any attachment to the guy. It's only a few scenes later where we learn they had met and the guy was going to be the driver for the heist... we saw none of those scenes so sitting in the reaction scene like we did feels unearned and I don't see what we get out of revealing it casually later as a surprise for the audience.
There are many other examples of this and it leads to a frustrating watch, because much of everything else is pretty compelling. Very good performances. Also kinda a fizzer reveal that Neeson is still knocking about, I think that was plainly on the cards from the very beginning. What was surprising was that they Bernthal was really dead. So fair play there.
Has a lot going for it. Maybe a little overly serious though I get why the tone is what it is, just could use a bit of levity at times.
Struggled a bit with the way the audience is kept in the dark over things. Its one thing to not know something has been hidden from you and have it revealed later, its another to know you've not been given all the info and frustratingly sit through scenes that haven't set contextual foundation for me to invest any emotion into it. For example, at one point Davis' driver (my guy Garrett Dillahunt) is killed and we get a scene where Davis breaks the news to one of the other women and we get her reaction to it... but until that point they hadn't met on screen. We didn't know they knew each other at all, let alone she had any attachment to the guy. It's only a few scenes later where we learn they had met and the guy was going to be the driver for the heist... we saw none of those scenes so sitting in the reaction scene like we did feels unearned and I don't see what we get out of revealing it casually later as a surprise for the audience.
There are many other examples of this and it leads to a frustrating watch, because much of everything else is pretty compelling. Very good performances. Also kinda a fizzer reveal that Neeson is still knocking about, I think that was plainly on the cards from the very beginning. What was surprising was that they Bernthal was really dead. So fair play there.
