Band of Robbers

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Hilarious. Heart felt. Exciting! I love this film because it is not like anything I've watched before! But also the way it is able to make you feel like you are part of the "band". It is a must see in my opinion. Just hilarious, very witty, thrilling! Great directing and great cast! Keeps you on the end of your seat throughout the whole movie! Also has great one liners that will stick with you. I cannot stop raving about this film! It has unexpected twists and turns! I love it love it love it! You can relate to the characters and makes it feel timeless. I cannot wait till it is on DVD to watch it again! I feel like I am just going on about this but if you get the chance to watch it please do! It is original and a gem just like the treasure they are on the hunt for.

i saw it at MoA afternoon matinée wed the 20th. perfect setting for an enoyable day this movie was made with passion and tlc--clearly observable. love to feed the indy movie scene? no put intended. go see Band of Robbers. delightful spin on the old huck fin / tom sawyer story. two seasoned leads did a fantastic job: kyle gallner and adam nee (who was actually in an episode of SatC) who was also co writer and co director. i'm not usually a big fan of silly movies but i don't pass up mgg. ever. though his role was supporting, his character was hilarious and it was fun to see him play the opposite of reid. plus the short joggers and tank tops are not to miss. BaR was super cute and entertaining quite a few funny laugh out loud moments. if you need a light airy movie on a cold winter's too hot summer's day, i indeed recommend.

It's been a long time since I've read "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" but I don't recall him being this dumb. Barney Fife had nothing on good old Tom, who was not only a clueless cop, but corrupt as well. The names from Mark Twain's classic novel come flooding back with characters like Huck Finn, Joe Harper and Injun Joe, as this retelling places the adventurous duo of Tom and Huck in a modern day setting and up to their necks in a passel of trouble. Huck Finn (Kyle Gallner) doubles as narrator, often interjecting his thoughts as the escapades Tom puts his 'Band of Robbers' through go awry more often than not. And though she's not given much to do, Becky Thatcher (Melissa Benoist) is a welcome addition to the cast, though one might expect her to be a little more proactive in keeping Tom on the straight and narrow. The classic hunt for Murrell's Treasure winds up successful, but one must engage in a healthy suspension of disbelief to accept the retrieval of a chest filled with gold coins from the mid 1800's. The film will have served it's purpose if it sets viewers off on a quest to read the original novel that inspired it. The closing credits offer a direct tribute to a classic scenario from Twain's story as Tom, now in prison, obviously hoodwinks fellow inmates to paint a security wall on his behalf.

Right at the onset the main protagonists are named tom sawyer and huck finn. No nods or easter eggs, this is literally an adaptation or reimagining if you prefer. I think that really should inform the movie more than it does at the starting line. At first I wasnt sure what I was in for and had misgivings but once you realize this story is going to completely ridiculous and more fun than serious, it becomes an absolute joy. This really made me feel like I was watching "Raising Arizona" again but for the first time and I think any time a movie can transport you like that it deserves high praise. On a side not Stephen Lang was simple terrifying as Joe. He really elavated the film.

I just saw an "on-demand" showing of this movie at our downtown relic independent theater (the old Wurlitzer is still there from way back when!)The father-in-law of one of the leads was a high school friend, and a neighbor, and word spread through the grapevine asking everyone in our class to recruit three or four more friends to go along. We almost filled the enormous old theater! This movie is amazingly well done, and being done on a very tight budget made it all the more interesting. How did they do so much, so creatively and so well? The friend told us it had been considered for Sundance, receiving several nominations. It will be on Netflix soon, so look for it! And if you watch it through a haze of some premium bourbon, it would be even better!

Mark Twain fans might be slightly disappointed by the portrayals of their favorite characters but it's best to see it as more as a modern day homage to the books than anything else. Also a heavy dose of crude humor, it's a comedy of errors first and formost more so than the epic adventures of the books it is inspired by. Set in present time our dear Huckleberry Finn is a ex con and Tom Sawyer is his childhood friend who ended up becoming a police officer, albeit for no noble reasons. Kyle Gallner is always good and he is definitely the best actor in this film and delivers a lowkey but very good performance as Huck, Adam Nee is entertaining as Tom but his character is pretty one dimensional... But so are most of the other characters. After seeing Stephen Lang being absolutely brilliant in 'DON'T BREATHE (2016)' I must say I was a little let down by his (too) mild performance in this one. But overall the performances are good enough. There were a couple times where I thought they should have wrote this or that differently in the script but overall the plot is also good enough. So yeah overall, no masterpiece but... good enough 6.5/10.

Band of Robbers is a modernized version of the story of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn and makes it more of a gangster story. It follows Tom and Huck as they search for an ancient treasure while that same treasure it been searched for by another man. Let me start off by saying that I don't actually know the original Tom Sawyer/Huck Finn story, nor did I know that this was a modernization of said story until at least a day after watching it. Regardless, the source material for a movie doesn't affect my opinion of it whatsoever, but it just means that I would have had less of an idea of what was going to happen going in. Band of Robbers is a fun movie. There was one scene in particular involving an early robbery that made me laugh a little harder than a probably should have. There are a handful of other jokes scattered about, but this scene specifically stood out to me. Also the movie does a great job of balancing both fantasy and realism. The movie's setting is realistic, yet the plot is more of a fantasy with the characters looking for buried treasure. Yet it all fits into the universe very well, nothing about that really feels out of place. Despite these things this movie is very cliché and a little predictable. It often indulges in a handful of clichés that probably wouldn't have changed the story that much, and simply exist because the average movie watcher expects them to be there. Not all of these scenes were entirely pointless, but without all the things that I liked this movie would be very average. Overall Band of Robbers is good. There are some very genuine laughs here and there and it manages to blend fantasy and realism very well. It suffers from being cliché and often predictable, but in the grand scheme of things was an enjoyable movie. In the end I would recommend this movie.

Band Of Robbers( 2015) is a quirky modern day take on the adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. If I had to describe this film in one word, it would be eccentric. I mean that in a good way. Its a great balance between zany comedy and heartfelt drama. However, I can't ignore the problems. Certain things happen in the movie that are completely illogical. Those things only occur so they can push the movie forward. This happens frequently throughout the movie. It can be quite frustrating at times. Also, several intriguing characters are either underwritten or underused. Especially Hannibal Buress' character, Ben Rogers. I loved every scene he was in. While it does have its apparent problems, Band Of Robbers still manages to give you a warm feeling at the end of the movie. Heartfelt, with a truly great message.

Despite being ambitious and having good intentions, this movie is absolutely uninteresting. I would go as far as to say that it is a total waste of your time. You won't laugh, you wont get a moral message you haven't heard already, you are not going to entertain yourself. Upon deciding to watch this movie, I got hooked by it's description and another user review on IMDb. Now, I feel obligated to warn you: watch anything else, but "Band of Robbers".