a5c7b9f00b After serving ten years in prison in New Orleans, the smalltime criminal Frankie Kelly comes to the house of his younger brother, James Kelly, who is a mechanic in a local workshop. James is dating the gorgeous Emily, who worksoperator in the NOLA Police Department, and lives a honest life. Frankie introduces James to his friends Sugar and Ray that helped him in the prison and soon James learns that they are planning a bank heist with the gangster Spoonie. He tries to recuse to participate but Ray forces him threatening his older brother. What will James do? James (Hayden Christensen) owes his life to his older brother, Frankie (Adrien Brody) after taking the rap for a crime they committed together. While Frankie served time, James worked to turn his life around, got a steady job and began courting his former girlfriend Emily (Jordana Brewster). Now, Frankie is released and back on the streets with no money and no place to go. He turns to his underworld connections (Akon) and convinces James to join him in hopes that one last job will be the solution to change both their lives. This is one of those movies , and I&#39;ll name a handful where it seems like really real. PORT of New Orleans Bad Detective, Scanner Darkly, Less Than Zero….and there are more. But to me, this movie doesn&#39;t have any acting. Adrian Brody doesn&#39;t know any better than to be bullied by our Black cast.Hayden is his younger brother workinga lube tech and suddenly gets intimate with a new girlfriend that needed him to take a look at her vehicle..who too happens to work at the Police Dept.a dispatch operator. No problems.Just a sad epidemic of crime,sex,blackmail…and I&#39;m only half way into it… This film could inspire a narration for every episode of INTERVENTION on television. And again, it seems that the white guy is the pawn to the extraordinarily stronger and smarter black guy, who for some reason doesn&#39;t get killed arrested or a restraining order against them makes the movie delvefarit has already. American Heist isn&#39;t great but it will fill some cinema watching time without you feeling ripped off. <br/><br/>Set in New Orleans, Christensen plays the usual good-hearted boy in a relationship with a straight arrow gal but with a dark side, dealing with his ex-con brother (Brody). Think Affleck&#39;s character in The Town done a bit more superficially. Yep, the dynamic has been done to death and no surprises how it ends up, at least most way through the flick.<br/><br/>Brody has got himself mixed up with some hard crims with a cause (one of the odd twists in the film is the Robin Hoodesque demeanour of the head villain): revenge for the injustices perpetrated by banks, and make a lot of cash. The evil men at the centre of this are the impressive Akon (Sugar) and his friend in crime (Spoonie).<br/><br/>It becomes clear that Brody has got his bro&#39; in too deep. At one point he justifies his following these dangerous gangsters, it seems, based on their helping him extract toothpaste from his keister (something only a true friend would do in the can, presumably).<br/><br/>For those that read the reviews with spoiler warnings, I won&#39;t give away the mildly clever twist at the end of a film that otherwise emplys the usual climax of automatic weapon gunplay.<br/><br/>Good dialogue, good use of a 10 million dollar budget and moderately satisfying overall. Don&#39;t expect too much and you&#39;ll have a good time with American Heist. Despite the valiant efforts from the two leads, the only thing of value that gets robbed in American Heist is our time.
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