While I don’t know anything about Andre Stander other than this film and a follow/up read at Wikipedia, there are some things that seem a bit weird here. Ok, quick recap. This is a biopic of the aforementioned, who was a police captain in late 1970s South Africa and who robbed a bunch of banks (while a policeman, mind) before he was caught, tried, and imprisoned. Then he broke out of prison, formed a gang, and went straight back to robbing banks (apparently that day), successfully and for rather longer than seems probable (though it did happen). Now, this thing is that the film posits that Stander does this, at least initially, out of some sense of guilt over, generally, the apartheid system and, specifically, his killing of an unarmed man during a police action in quelling a protest march. This is alluded to several times over the film, explicitly, with Stander giving bricks of cash to two separate, but random (Black) people and a scene where he goes to apologize (or at least acknowledge his role) to the father of the man he killed and, implicitly, with all of the subsequent victims of his crimes being white South Africans. But there seems very little textual to support this read of the man in real life. And without it, he’s just a cop turned bad (or worse than usual, depending on your own political beliefs), who has taken to spree-robbing and spending his ill-gotten gains on himself (flashy clothes and house, not to mention the enormous number of fake mustaches and beards), on trying to win his wife back (she’s divorced him after the conviction, see), and basically living some version of the mythical “high-life” with the gang. If he were really that concerned about race-relations, wouldn’t he be operating more as some sort Robin Hood figure? Anyway, ethics and (potential) accuracy aside, Thomas Jane is very good as Stander (and I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention how *much* of Mr Jane you get to see—it’s a lot), Deborah Kara Unger is great as his wife/ex, gang members Dexter Fletcher and David O’Hara are also good, and, as I hinted earlier, if you are into guys sporting stick-on ‘staches, this is gonna be some sort of vision of heaven on earth for you. The story moves along at a decent clip, there’s some amusing hijinks, and though not exactly a heist film, it’s certainly heist-adjacent enough to scratch that sort of itch. It’s just that motivation though, you know? It needed more *or maybe less* explaining….