• ⇤
• ⇽
• ≡
• ⇾
• ⇥

movie review - The Out-Laws

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

This is a fun movie about a shlep whose fiance isn't close with her parents. They turn up as the wedding is approaching and it turns out they're very cool sixty-somethings - fit and leather-clad. The main shlep is a bank manager and his bank is promptly robbed by a couple who are fit and interestingly leather-clad. Things develop from there and we're all soon united against the big bad - a curiously young woman who has supposedly been blackmailing/threatening the shlep's fiance since she was just a girl.

It's all rather a bit of a mess, far too transparent and telegraphed, and the lead shlep is too annoying for the role. But it was fun seeing Ellen Barken and Julie Hagerty again. Also, I note that the lead in this thing came off quite a bit better than in "Jexi" despite effectively playing the same character.

Not recommended.