After "The Perfect Score," "Catch That Kid" and now "Foolproof," it would appear that the heist film genre is in dire need of either a blood transfusion or, at the very least, some serious mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. "Foolproof" features three former hacker buddies - two male and one female, of course - who have taken up a most unusual hobby: they meticulously devise, plan out and rehearse elaborate burglary schemes that they have no intention of ever carrying out. Even before we have had a chance to buy into that ridiculous premise, the movie goes a step further into narrative idiocy. For what our intrepid little band of reformed lawbreakers doesn't count on is that one day a diabolical criminal will steal one of their plans, then blackmail the three of them into executing the heist for real. Thus, what starts off as an intellectually challenging game for bored computer geeks turns into deadly serious business.
"Foolproof" might have been a halfway interesting film had anybody involved with the project put even the slightest conviction or effort into it. As it is, the script is juvenile, the direction shoddy, the acting stiff and without emotion. It feels as if everyone on both sides of the camera had been simply passing through the studio that day and decided to get together and toss off this flick on their way to better things. The movie is so utterly slapdash in appearance and style and so utterly devoid of meaning and purpose that one wonders why any studio would ever even have bothered to release it.
Is there really much point in watching a caper film about a trio of Pollyana-ish "criminals" who spend all their time tsk-tsking those involved in committing an actual crime? We in the audience are smart enough to know right from wrong even when we're watching a heist film and don't need a bunch of can't-get-with-the-program moralists spoiling all the fun for us.
"Foolproof" lives up to only the first half of its compound word title.
"Foolproof" might have been a halfway interesting film had anybody involved with the project put even the slightest conviction or effort into it. As it is, the script is juvenile, the direction shoddy, the acting stiff and without emotion. It feels as if everyone on both sides of the camera had been simply passing through the studio that day and decided to get together and toss off this flick on their way to better things. The movie is so utterly slapdash in appearance and style and so utterly devoid of meaning and purpose that one wonders why any studio would ever even have bothered to release it.
Is there really much point in watching a caper film about a trio of Pollyana-ish "criminals" who spend all their time tsk-tsking those involved in committing an actual crime? We in the audience are smart enough to know right from wrong even when we're watching a heist film and don't need a bunch of can't-get-with-the-program moralists spoiling all the fun for us.
"Foolproof" lives up to only the first half of its compound word title.