a5c7b9f00b Back in 1997, with the closest thing to adventure being an open spot at Loomis Fargo armoured car business, David Ghantt, a shy, quiet man in his forties, entered the world of thrill and excitement, following his dream. If only it were that simple. Instead, from now on, Ghantt&#39;s new reality includes a boring repetitiveness of collecting and delivering money, up until that day that Kelly Campbell, a new and exciting colleague, entered the company&#39;s door rocking David&#39;s world for good. Inevitably, head over heels for her, David is prepared to do anything for her attention, and before long, he would even accept a key role in an inside job proposed by Kelly and her opportunistic accomplice Steve, the town&#39;s petty thief. As one of the selected few who hold the key to the vault, David will be successful in his task and with the intention to please his new sweetheart, he will eagerly cram $17 million in the back of the company&#39;s armoured van, in the biggest cash heist in history. However, the security cameras are silently recording.. David Ghantt discovers the true meaning of adventure far beyond his wildest dreams. He is an uncomplicated man stuck in a monotonous life. Day in and day out he drives an armored vehicle, transporting millions of other people&#39;s money with no escape in sight. The only glimmer of excitement is his flirtatious work crush Kelly Campbell who soon lures him into the scheme of a lifetime. Along with a group of half-brained criminals led by Steve Chambers and an absurdly faulted heist plan, David manages the impossible and makes off with $17 million in cash…only problem is he foolishly hands the money over to this wild group of double crossers and has been set up to take the fall. With the bandits blowing the millions on lavish and ridiculous luxuries, they leave behind a glaring trail of evidence. Now on the lam and in over his head, David must dodge the authorities, evade a hilarious hit man, Mike McKinney, and try to turn the tables on the ones he trusted most. And i don&#39;t mean just from watching the goofballs of the story, which was sort of expected. But from having wasted two hours of my life on this crap. It seemed promising at first with brilliant comedians like Zach Galifianakis and Kristen Wiig, but the talent is completely wasted on a criminally stupid script.<br/><br/>Ostensibly based on &quot;a real story&quot;, but most of soup have likely been made up - from the contract killer in Mexico trying to shoot Ghantt with a musket, capturing in a bathtub, finding he has the identical name and deciding not to kill him, overpowering Mexican police at the airport, crashing the BMW at the iron gate, wife and mistress fighting at the Walmart, and so on, and on. The similarities of what happened in real life and in the movie could be summarized in two sentences. And this goes even for the general appearance of the main characters. But the final nail in the coffin is that this satire isn&#39;t even really funny.<br/><br/>I can&#39;t believe that it was &quot;based on a true story&quot;. And neither will anyone else with more than half a brain. Because it&#39;s not. Masterminds<br/><br/>The easiest way to steal millions is to swipe a lotto winner&#39;s oversized novelty cheque.<br/><br/>However, the morons in this comedy opted for robbing their workplace.<br/><br/>Security guard David Scott Ghantt (Zach Galifianakis) is cajoled into pilfering his armoured vehicle by a co-worker, Kelly Campbell (Kristen Wiig), and her boyfriend, Steve Chambers (Owen Wilson).<br/><br/>While David hits Mexico after the heist with minimal cash, Steve squanders millions on a mansion back in America. When the FBI (Leslie Jones) starts sniffing around, Steve sends a hit-man down south to silence David. But fate has other plans.<br/><br/>An absurd satire that uses zany Internet humour and ridiculous dialogue to retell the true tale of the ill-fated 1997 Loomis-Fargo robbery, Masterminds makes it difficult to discern fact from wacky fiction. Nonetheless, its abstruse jokes do deliver some unexpected chortles.<br/><br/>Moreover, you also get a free getaway vehicle when you holdup an armoured car. <br/><br/>Yellow Light<br/><br/>vidiotreviews.blogspot.ca The film strains in two different directions, half trying to stay true to its based-on-fact roots, half wanting to ditch all that and become a ridiculous farce.
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