The film revolves around Joe (Bruce Willis) and Terry (Billy Bob Thornton) who have escaped from prison. After they were released from prison, this duo stole the banks to fund their scheme for a new life. One day, they both fall in love with a bank employee who kidnapped him after they stole him.
I like movies that don't settle into a groove, especially if the groove is already well worn. But the different kinds of movies that make up Bandits are pretty worn, too.
EmanuelLevy.Com
March 31, 2006
A hybrid crime-comedy that unsuccessfully tries to blend classic screwball comedy (the Preston Sturges brand), romantic triangles (Jules et Jim, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid), and character-driven crimers (a la Bonnie and Clyde).
Levinson must think he's on safe ground morally by keeping Bandits bloodless, as if the absence of carnage somehow makes kidnapping and armed robbery wholesome.
Bangor Daily News (Maine)
August 05, 2007
Terrible. A substitute for sleep medication that's so self-indulgent and plodding, it drove four people out of my screening midway through.
The movie has a one-take feel about it, containing vast stretches where nothing much happens. The cinematography looks amateurish, often badly composed and poorly lit.
Bandits' most intriguing plot line, the three-way love story, merely hints at the complexity of a two-man/one-woman relationship and never moves past the initial stages of cuteness and adolescent eroticism.
