Well the front cover says “Five Guys. One Safe. No Brains” & I have to agree this sums it up perfectly. This whole movie is a bit of a “no-brainer”! A master criminal has the perfect robbery all ready to go when he is arrested for another crime and sent to prison for life. Once inside he befriends a fellow inmate who is due for release and gives the job to him. In a comedy of errors the other inmate also ends up serving a long sentence and hands the job over to Toto a small-time crook. Unable to do the job himself Toto (played by Michael Jeter) enlists the help of every looser in the vicinity of the job.

Ultimately five guys get together to pull off the “most lucrative safecracking job in history”. Teaming up with Toto is; Riley (played by William Macy) Riley’s wife is in prison for fraud and has literally left him holding the baby (a one year old son he carries everywhere in a baby sling), Pero (played by Sam Rockwell) a looser in love who believes that money will solve all his love problems, Basil (played by Andrew Davoli) & Leon (played by Isaiah Washington) two crooks just looking for something profitable to do.

Doomed from the start these five couldn’t organise an escape out of a wet paper bag, hopelessly stupid and actually just plain dumb. These guys enlist the help of a wheelchair bound, master safecracker named Jerzy (played by George Clooney). Jerzy agrees to give the five losers lessons on safe cracking and happily charges them $500.

The plan is set the five men all have tasks to perform to get this job done and all is ready, then the glitches start. This job involves entering through an abandoned apartment and the day before the job is to take place two little old ladies move into the apartment, a minor setback, that sets the scene for what is about to come. Each time the five are ready something happens to delay the job. What follows is a string of unlikely events; at times it is all too far fetched to be enjoyable. What turned out to be the easiest heist in town may well end up being the hardest thing these five ever do.

The characters in this are bizarre and totally unlike able and I struggled to even care what was happening. The storyline was slow and took a long time for “nothing” to happen. Obviously a pre-batman movie for George Clooney and probably one he would rather forget, but we all have to start somewhere. There is very little endearing about this DVD. Maybe it would be OK for a lazy weekend but be warned you may feel you have wasted 86 minutes.

THE EXTRAS

Cast & Crew interviews - basically all the main actors gushing about how they loved to be in this movie (yeah right).

Behind the scenes- a “home Movie” of the making of the movie. Interesting but not “Must see” if you are busy & can’t spare the time

to watch this then don’t.

CONCLUSION

Well the front cover says “Five Guys. One Safe. No Brains” & I have to agree this sums it up perfectly. This whole movie is a bit of a “no-brainer”! A master criminal has the perfect robbery all ready to go when he is arrested for another crime and sent to prison for life. Once inside he befriends a fellow inmate who is due for release and gives the job to him. In a comedy of errors the other inmate also ends up serving a long sentence and hands the job over to Toto a small-time crook. Unable to do the job himself Toto enlists the help of every looser in the vicinity of the job.