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movie review - Going in Style

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2019.04.22

This is the story of three retirees who decide to pursue a life of crime to pay the bills after they're screwed by the company for which they'd all given a life's labor. Now being sucked dry by a bank (the scandal) it's time to arm themselves and knock off that bank.

Things don't go according to plan, of course, and it's the consequences that drive half this thing. It's a bit uneven but with a charismatic cast and a steady tone I enjoyed it.

Recommended.

rand()m quote

On the endless saga of Rob Ford, mayor of Toronto; "It shouldn't have had to come to this. I'm so tired of getting up every morning and wondering, 'What will it be today?' I'm so tired of giving the benefit of the doubt again and again, only to be let down again and again.... Somewhere a responsible adult has to appear, draw a bright moral line, tell the truth and say unequivocally what won't be tolerated. Somebody has to do the right thing."

—Denzil Minnan-Wong