One cannot avoid wondering what the aim of this movie was - whether to sympathies with violent robbers or inspire some horrendous robberies that actually occurred in the years to come in the US and elsewhere. Some of the factual background did not help as most of the audience would not have had a clue about the real people this was loosely based on. I never believe for a second that de Niro could have been seriously excited about it and could wait to shoot the cafe dialogue scene which I think is pretty badly improvised. He must have been completely blindfolded in the process of re-writing the script as well as making the movie.
Mann's dream fifteen years on would have possibly turned into a great crime drama had it not been made like a bad long bond movie.
The original draft /1979 redone a few times and the original intentions to release this as series and no-one really interested in using the script - speaks for itself. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.Īs a crime television show this might have worked had it been made by someone who had actually known what they were doing. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements.
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