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Sunday, June 24, 2018















     Masterminds
2016  PG-13  COMEDY  1h 34min
CAST— Zach Galifianakis, Owen Wilson, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones, Jason Sudeikis
MUSIC— Geoff Zanelli  DIRECTOR— Jared Hess  BASED ON— True events

     A tasteless, brainless excuse for a banal comedy that is apparently up most people’s alleys. Supposedly inspired by a true account of a heist in 1990s North Carolina, this interpretation has Zach Galifianakis as a clueless armored car driver whose seductive (and the term is here used loosely) partner (Kristen Wiig) coerces him into relieving the Loomis Fargo company of roughly $17 million. Galifianakis here forsakes a life of complacency with his creepy fiancée and her invalid mother for a life on the lam in Mexico, waiting for the good life to kick in. Meanwhile, Wiig’s friend and accomplice (Owen Wilson) hires a contract killer to take out Galifianakis; but for some reason the would-be killer and Galifianakis become best buds and who really cares by this point? Obviously studio executives really wanted this quartet to pull off a laugh-out-loud comedy that the masses would flock to see, but no. Just no. Tacky, pointless, insulting, and probably the worst offense, not even remotely funny. A definite loser.
OUR RATING— *
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