With an eclectic cast that includesMargot Robbie, Simon Pegg, andMike Myers(where you been?
Oh, sweet Jesus, guess again.
This stylish-but-grating pastiche of far better crime flicks is as soft-boiled as they come.
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But there’s nothing behind all the surface flash and razzle-dazzle, besides more flash and razzle-dazzle.
It’s as phony as the emerald-green contact lenses that Robbie’s “mad-as-a-hatter” vixen wears.
What do all these characters have in common, you ask?
Well, nothing aside from the ridiculous chain of coincidences that Vaughn’s screenplay frog-marches them into.
Robbie, God bless her, tries to make what little she’s given work.
Despite a role that’s as borderline demeaning as this one, she’s incapable of phoning it in.
But the rest of the film is shallow, annoying, and unoriginal.
It’s a crime movie whose biggest crime is grand larceny from other, better movies.C-
