“You
know what they say. Normal's just a cycle on the washing machine.”
Throughout
the history of the movies there have been countless movies about bank
robberies. There can either be comedies or they can be dramas or even action. There
is usually always some kind of twist like one of the hostages is in on the
heist or the hostages wind up outsmarting the robbers and saves the day. Flypaper actually utilizes everything I just
mentioned bank robbing movies and totally flips all the stereotypes on their
heads.
It
is the end of the day close to when a bank is about the close for the night.
Tripp (Patrick Dempsey) walks into a bank looking to make change out of his
$100 bill. He literally asks for change no bills. The teller Kaitlin (Ashley
Judd) notices all the change he wants in certain coins comes out to prime
numbers. Tripp seems to have no filter and just says whatever comes off the top
of his head like asking Kaitlin some personal questions. His watch goes off and
he says that lets him know that he needs to get his medication.
Downstairs
three men break into the bank without setting off any alarms. They are
professionals. They are wearing all black and wear some heavy duty masks to
hide their faces. They are also some scary looking guns.
As
Tripp is about to leave he notices two hicks walking in and immediately knows
that they are there to rob the bank. He jumps behind the counter onto Kaitlin. Soon
the other three robbers come storming downstairs and then gunfire erupts between
the two teams. Tripp just walks out into the middle of the gun fight and has
them stop shooting. He asks each team what they are in the bank for. The hicks,
nicknamed Peanut Butter and Jelly, say they were going to hit up the ATMs and
the bad ass guys are breaking into the vault. They agree to leave the other
alone and rob what they want. The bad ass guys throw all the bank employees
into the break room and black out all the glass so they cannot see what is
going on.
Tripp
manages to get out of the break room to investigate some things. He is obsessed
with trying to find out about the dead guy. Turns out he was FBI. Through some
other clues and his ability to remember and see multiple things at a time he
pieces the puzzle of what the robberies are all about.
In
the mean time several of the bank employees and members of the bad ass guys
start dying one by one and sometimes in the most hilarious ways. Also along the
way Peanut Butter and Jelly just totally screw things up for the bad ass guys.
The
ending is really good. There is a good twist on the character of Kaitlin.
The
cast was so damn funny. I am so used to seeing Patrick Dempsey as Derek
Shepherd on Grey’s Anatomy where he is all serious and dramatic. I thought he
was hilarious. I loved his character from the moment he walked into the bank. It
is the same thing with Ashley Judd she usually does serious movies she was very
funny and a little bad ass in some scenes. Octavia Spencer was another teller.
There are some scenes where you have to listen to what she says and I promise
you will be laughing. Jeffery Tambour is in the movie as the boss of the bank.
He does not do too much until the end and he is good.
Flypaper was hilarious. It is rare that do
not have a complaint about a movie and I do not with this one. It was so well
written, acted, and directed. The story is what I liked the most it was so
different and entertaining. I like how the characters come together and how the story unfolds. The story is very much like Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None and Clue as well just with crazier
characters. Highly, highly suggest seeing Flypaper
it is a brilliant mix of comedy, some drama, and action… all of what should go
into a typical heist movies but this is definitely not your typical heist
movie. And that is what makes Flypaper
so brilliant.
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