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How to Rob a Bank Review
How to Rob a Bank follows a crew of masked robbers who post polished videos of their crimes, presenting themselves as striking back at a system that favours the rich. The review argues that, although the film raises timely questions about inequality and anti-establishment anger, it mostly acknowledges them without exploring their consequences.
Nicholas Hoult leads the crew alongside Anna Sawai, Pete Davidson and Rhenzy Feliz, while John C. Reilly’s FBI agent recruits Zoë Kravitz’s cybercrime-convicted character to help track them down. The reviewer praises the unlikely pairing of Reilly and Kravitz but finds the online videos overproduced, the supporting robbers underused and the characters’ development shallow; the film opens in cinemas on 13 November.
In short
- A bank-robbing crew turns its crimes into viral videos.
- The film raises questions about inequality but leaves them largely unexplored.
- John C. Reilly and Zoë Kravitz provide the review’s strongest pairing.
Explained simply
Bank robberies are usually treated as crimes for police to solve, but some films use them to explore anger at wealth and power. Stories about inequality ask how money and opportunity are shared, while anti-establishment anger describes frustration with powerful institutions.
How to Rob a Bank centres on a crew who publicise their crimes online and an FBI agent trying to catch them. The agent enlists a woman with a cybercrime conviction, bringing law enforcement together with someone who has experience of breaking digital rules.