So after John Watts wrapped up his Spider-Man trilogy with Tom Holland, this is his first big picture.
I give it a C+.
If you enjoy Clooney and Pitt and their easy on screen chemistry, you'll enjoy this.
I can count on two hands how many of Pitt's and Clooney's films (total for both) that are good to great. In many of their films they are serviceable, playing versions of themselves. It's the "I'm cool" snappy patter, and suave, debonair style that infused the Oceans films (but definitely not 8). That's this movie.
It's also a loosely structured remake of Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, right down to the last scene.
The set pieces (chases, gun battles) go on too long.
Too much of a good thing it's definitely too much here.
There are also many plot devices you have to swallow to allow the story to move forward. Not good.
The comedy shtick of two fixers/mechanics/cleaners who are not only carbon copies of each other, but also working for the same guy, gets a little thin. So does the odd sentimentality with the nerdy bagman that the two killers get caught up with. It started to remind me of The Fall Guy. Good actors in a just "okay" film. But that's fine, I guess.
However, the bromance and easy coexistence these two actors have isn't hard to watch, but I wish there had been more revelatory scenes as to their background and training.
But...I'm not sorry I watched it.
