SummaryAfter being recruited by a group of unconventional thieves, renowned criminal Richard Pace (Pierce Brosnan) finds himself caught up in an elaborate gold heist that promises to have far-reaching implications on his life and the lives of countless others.
SummaryAfter being recruited by a group of unconventional thieves, renowned criminal Richard Pace (Pierce Brosnan) finds himself caught up in an elaborate gold heist that promises to have far-reaching implications on his life and the lives of countless others.
It’s an intermittently entertaining endeavor thanks mostly to the effortlessly suave lead performance by Pierce Brosnan as a career thief who looks like he wakes up wearing a jacket with a pocket square and with his hair perfectly coiffed, but the action sequences are ho-hum, the editing is stunningly clumsy, and the main heist is so cartoonishly ridiculous we don’t even believe the actors believe it’s possible.
I found this fun to watch. Loved the goofy parts as well as the action scenes. Each character was played well by all actors. I especially loved Wick (Mike Angelo) and his clumsiness as well as his love for explosives. I also loved Pace's (Pierce Brosnan) laugh.
In sum, we have a silly Hollywood-style action movie with a Robin Hood theme, serving the ideology of an elitist authoritarian regime. In other words, a real misfit.
For the first 20 minutes or so — a blitz of eye candy and ear worms — its breezy action and the performers’ good cheer are enough to entertain. Too soon, though, the movie drifts into narrative doldrums that derail its momentum and drain the cast’s energy.
The Misfits, starring Pierce Brosnan and Nick Cannon, is airless, pointless and only passably made; an amalgamation of the most tired clichés of heist movies, executed in the emptiest way possible.
The movie feels like both an advertisement for this posh, ultra-modern oasis and a late-20th-century smear of the people and culture one might expect to find there.
It’s rarely a good sign when a movie leaves you thinking: “The Renny Harlin who made ‘The Adventures of Ford Fairlane’ would never have stood for this lazy, mean-spirited crap.”
The Misfits. The most boring heist ever. I first came across reviews of this movie on the Internet and was in doubt, is it really such a bad movie, but then I looked at the trailer in which Pierce Brosnan, Tim Roth and other actors look so cool and the scenes are all so crazy and I watched the movie ... And then I agree with the reviews. The most boring heist I've ever seen in a movie. More than half of the film, the main characters are talking about something, flying back and forth and walking. The hero Tim Roth is presented as stern in front of whom not even a fly flies by unnoticed, in fact, the whole film walks with its mouth open and waits to be robbed.
Pierce Brosnan stars as Richard Pace, a renowned international thief, he finds himself recruited by a bunch of unconventional thieves, he is convinced to take part in an elaborate gold heist after realising his daughter is the one that created the group.
But unlike most thieves, "The Misfits" are in it for the good, think of Robin Hood and you get the idea.
The plan is to steal millions in gold bars from a secure vault hidden under a maximum security prison, the prison is owned by rogue businessman Schultz (Played by Tim Roth), and is used for funding terrorism around the world. When the film was released, it caused great controversy, as it is set in Qatar and the idea that they may fund terrorism might not be something they want advertised, even if it is in a film.
What follows is a pretty paint by numbers heist film, suped up cars, car chases, disguises, cons within cons, and a few explosions, and you get the idea.
Pierce Brosnan is Pierce Brosnan, he is cool, calm and collected, as he is in almost every film he makes.
Tim Roth plays his part as the evil businessman well, but again it is a part he has seemingly played endless times before. The rest of the cast are very generic and bland. One black guy, one Asian girl, one blond girl, etc, it is yet another "one of each" type of casting, as to not piss off any ethnic group.
The Good
I am a fan of Heist movies, and The Misfits rips pretty much all of them off, without ever really improving on any of them, but does it really need to? It ticks all the boxes, has the twists, if like me, you enjoy a good heist movie, then this is perfectly fine.
The Bad
This is a film made for an international market, as I mentioned it is very paint by numbers, tick all the boxes kind of film, you will watch it once, and forget about it.
Overall
A film no one asked for, we don't really need, but it is not terrible, it is also not great, it is just another film.
I score The Misfits a fair 5/10
This was one of the worst films in 2021. The story was so complicated that I couldn't follow it. The characters were boring. Stupid actions, jokes, and crazy stories. Sorry about the harsh words.
Please do not waste your time on it. Just don't. The movie is boring, acting is **** (even Brosnan's). Characters doing a "thing" just because it's "the right thing to do" but you don't get to see the fire in their eyes doing that. It seems everything what they do is "just because". Brosnan was better as James Bond.