Caught Stealing

This didn’t do it for me. It’s too violent to be a comedy and too talky to be an action movie. It’s an unforced error of tone. Reading that it was based on a novel, it made sense. A novelist can characterize tragedy differently. Darren Aronofsky and company attempt a Guy Richie/Shane Black milieu but the events of the story don’t add up to a hero's journey – in a comedy or an action movie. The hero gets his ass kicked the entire time, he doesn’t protect the princess or save the cat, and he’s nowhere around during the big shoot-out between some supporting characters. It’s a bummer. Yes: stylish filmmaking occupies time. The end credits were cool. But in the end I felt kind of dirty.