Howard Franklin
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It's as entertaining a heist movie as Dog Day Afternoon (1975) or Quick Change (1990).
His plan for getting in and out of the bank is pretty much right outta Quick Change but with less Bill Murray-style wiseacreing (Washington’s detective prefers to invoke Dog Day Afternoon), and his real reason for attacking the bank of course has nothing to do with money... or not much, anyway, cuz this is a postmodern heist film that knows we’ve all seen every heist film ever made and need more than a merely greedy bad guy to keep our interest.
Put it this way—if you see only one movie this weekend featuring an anguished clown trying to navigate his way through a city on the edge of collapse that seems determined to thwart him at every turn until he turns into a criminal, make it a rental of “Quick Change” and leave this nonsense aside.