This atrocious film shows that untalented hustlers can also get their films made in Australia. Some SPOILER comments intertwined: From the incomprehensible opening having to do with three cons being sprung (by prison officials?) to pull a heist, to the heist itself, shown as a precision job that probably couldn't have been pulled off EVEN with day-by-day, month-by-month practice......something the incarcerated guys couldn't have done.......to the mostly un-understandable language used; the director sub-titled prison argot, which was a good idea, should have sub-titled most of the rest of the movie. Where shall I go from here; too much to choose from. But the scene where on the first day of being back in the joint, one of the brother gang members invades the private space of a prison shrink......and then begins an (ultimate) successful seduction......to the "comic" third brother, who falls deeply in love with a woman casually chosen on the street for a carjacking, this movie virtually always makes the wrong, non-logical, non-real and non-believable way of telling a story. Oh yes, for those of you who pick up a movie's press kit and are told that a movie is an "action/ comedy", the using of the word "comedy" isn't supposed to do the job of making you smile or laugh. One needs humorous scenes or funny moments to meet that description. I'm limited to a thousand words and could take this film apart, almost scene by scene but let me add the following: there are more than several key scenes where results happen that are never explained (more SPOILER): How did the corrupt lawyer possibly figure out where the stolen $10 million was hidden but since he was apparently the one who stole it why would he then, six months later, track down the three brothers and threaten them with prison if they didn't go after a huge heist? Since he tried to have them murdered previously, what kind of schmuck would be so out of it to approach the would-be victims? Awful, awful movie.
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