You’d love to think that Keanu Reeves’ tongue was firmly in cheek when, in his first outing as producer, he developed the inscrutably blank Henry Torne for himself, a docile ex-con plotting to rob the bank he was wrongly jailed for busting.
A meta-ironic statement on his ceaselessly battered charisma? More likely he knows his limits.
Fortunately, Malcolm Venville’s dozy heist-com gets a boost from Vera Farmiga’s cranky stage actress and James Caan’s die-hard lifer.
Cheapskate extras: interviews with the distracted cast while people clear up behind them.
