Very Cool!!!

Sorry, this movie sucks

One of my all time favorites.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

The summary of this described it as a comedy. I didn't find it funny."Life of Crime" from 2013 is based on an Elmore Leonard story, "The Switch," which has some of the same characters as "Jackie Brown." Sadly this is not in Jackie Brown's league. I'll give it this - it has a great soundtrack.Jennifer Aniston stars as Mickey, married to a prize jerk, Frank (Tim Robbins), who is involved in shady real estate deals and tax evasion. Unbeknownst to her, he's channeling money to a secret bank account, and his trips include meeting up with a young girlfriend Melanie (Isla Fisher). He also plans on divorcing Mickey and marrying Melanie.Louis (John Hawkes) and Ordell (Mos Def) have the idea of kidnapping Mickey and holding her for a million dollars ransom. They figure they know too much about his illegal activities for him to refuse.It turns out that the only one with any brains is Melanie. When Frank gets the phone call about Mickey, Melanie takes over. She starts taking the phone calls, claiming Frank isn't around. It finally occurs to the kidnappers that Frank doesn't really want Mickey back.There are two other men in the plot who are potentially trouble, but in different ways. There is the neo-Nazi racist with more guns than the Army (Mark Boone Junior) and a guy (Will Forte) who bonds with Mickey. This just didn't hang together for me. It certainly isn't up to the standard of Elmore Leonard as filmed by Tarantino. I think the filmmakers were going for a Tarantino/Cohen Brothers type of movie, but they didn't pull it off."Life of Crime" has good ensemble acting and some funny dialogue, but its pace is off, and it has a low-budget feel to it. It also lacks the layers of films like "Fargo" or "Jackie Brown."I've never been a fan of Jennifer Aniston's, and this didn't move her up on my list. I consider her just okay. When I think of female stars who can carry a film, she isn't one.

Serio-comic adaptation of Elmore Leonard's crime novel "The Switch" features a scenario that is well played-out by now: unhappily married woman, whose wealthy husband is a cheat and a swindler, is kidnapped by amateurs who ask for a million dollars in ransom; her husband, being a heartless snake with no morals, is reluctant to pay it. Well-cast but rather ungainly production, with both a direction and screenplay by Daniel Schechter that weaken as the film progresses, leading to an uninteresting final act. Jennifer Aniston and Tim Robbins are excellent as the couple in question, but Will Forte is wasted as a weak-kneed Lothario and Eric Alan Edwards' cinematography is disappointing, with cheap green-screen shots that give the picture a TV-movie feel. ** from ****

Before watching this, I had no idea this had any relationship to Jackie Brown (I didn't look into the origin of the story/novel this was based on), so fortunately for me, I didn't have anything in mind or tried to compare the two with each other (or the movie with the original novel for that matter).We do get a light fun comedy caper, that is predictable to a point. But still fun to watch. It might not be the best movie in that genre, but the characters are nicely written (obviously considering the origin) and the actors have fun playing in it, which shows on screen. The novel might be a bit of a give away, but I did not see that end coming. And I did like it very much

A loose prequel of sorts for the criminal players of Jackie Brown, based on Elmore Leonard's novel The Switch. It's not Jackie, no two ways about it, and it's unfair to compare the two... unfair, but inevitable since they're so spiritually related. The stakes are much lower this time, with a simple kidnapping plot the main point of action and few of the deliciously tangled interwoven story lines of the Tarantino flick. In Leonard's hands that still made for a wildly entertaining read, but on the screen it feels a bit on the shallow side. This translation is missing the charm and finesse of its source material, too, and a little of that spice can really go a long way. John Hawkes manages a really convincing, greasy De Niro impression as the soft-hearted enforcer Louis, while Mos Def's take on mastermind Ordell Robbie (originally played by Samuel L. Jackson) is less indebted to his predecessor. Jennifer Aniston is good as the repressed trophy wife / tennis mom / kidnappee, but the rest of the cast just seems like they're wearing costumes and playing games. They take themselves lightly, so it's tough for me to see the situation as all that serious. It's fine, superficial at worst, but there's little wonder why it slipped under the radar without a whimper when it hit the screens a couple of years ago.