I was apprehensive about this film as I do not care much for heist films or glamorous celebrity vehicles, but it turned out to be a fine genre piece. It has nothing innovative or daring, but is well made enough on the technical level that I had no trouble staying with it all the way to the end of the coup. It has the implausibilities usual to films that make crime look glitzy, but no glaring plot holes.
However well made, I would not consider it a feminist film to any extent, it is too safe and lightweight. I had my issues with Mad Max: Fury Road, but at least it took a serious issue and built a serious plot around it. The casting has a tokenism feel to it, but I do like that they are not all young and conventionally attractive. However, that it was greenlit could be taken as a sign of changes in thinking among film producers.
Yet the film suffers from two major flaws. One is that it takes the lighthearted tone too far and feels at times like a parody of the genre, while not being funny enough to work as such. The scene where they scan the Toussant in particular is like a bad comedy sketch. It would benefit from more danger and tension... or just embracing comedy and getting better jokes.
The second is that I said it is fine all the way to the conclusion of the heist, but the film continues for a while after that. And here its brisk pace hits a wall and it becomes a slog. This part is too plot-heavy to be an epilogue, but too lacking in direction to work as a resolution. There is a sub-plot about love and betrayal intended to give some motivation to the lead other than money, but it comes too late and is simply pointless. They should have focused instead on the camaraderie among these women, or what I would prefer, on them backstabbing each other for the spoils.
Enjoyable up to a point.
I was apprehensive about this film as I do not care much for heist films or glamorous celebrity vehicles, but it turned out to be a fine genre piece. It has nothing innovative or daring, but is well made enough on the technical level that I had no trouble staying with it all the way to the end of the coup. It has the implausibilities usual to films that make crime look glitzy, but no glaring plot holes.
However well made, I would not consider it a feminist film to any extent, it is too safe and lightweight. I had my issues with Mad Max: Fury Road, but at least it took a serious issue and built a serious plot around it. The casting has a tokenism feel to it, but I do like that they are not all young and conventionally attractive. However, that it was greenlit could be taken as a sign of changes in thinking among film producers.
Yet the film suffers from two major flaws. One is that it takes the lighthearted tone too far and feels at times like a parody of the genre, while not being funny enough to work as such. The scene where they scan the Toussant in particular is like a bad comedy sketch. It would benefit from more danger and tension... or just embracing comedy and getting better jokes.
The second is that I said it is fine all the way to the conclusion of the heist, but the film continues for a while after that. And here its brisk pace hits a wall and it becomes a slog. This part is too plot-heavy to be an epilogue, but too lacking in direction to work as a resolution. There is a sub-plot about love and betrayal intended to give some motivation to the lead other than money, but it comes too late and is simply pointless. They should have focused instead on the camaraderie among these women, or what I would prefer, on them backstabbing each other for the spoils.