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Granted that I had little expectations for "211" from writer and director York Alec Shackleton when I sat down to watch it. Why? Well, solely because this was just screaming to be another Nicolas Cage movie.

So was it? Both yes and no. Yes, in the sense that he trotted on with his usual stumped performance with just a single grimace throughout the entire movie. No, because the storyline sort of veered from the usual stuff that he participates in.

Was it a good movie? Nah, it was adequate, albeit quite generic. The storyline had its moments, not many, but it had them. But for a bank heist movie, then it offered very little to the cinematic experience that haven't already been seen in other bank heist movies.

The dialogue in the movie was good, and the characters were good, which definitely worked in favor of the movie. However, some of the things that the bank robbers were doing just made so little sense, especially since they were supposed to be highly trained military people.

All in all, an adequately entertaining movie that will suffice if you have nothing more pressing on the to-watch-list. But this is hardly a movie that you will be returning to watch a second time around.

This movie by Nicolas Cage and company is another to add to the bad. Opening credits blew it when they pan a laptop showing a active transfer while she randomly strikes the keyboard senselessly. What were they expecting this to add more realism you could see she was not typing and nothing appears on the screen except the transfer process. Obviously the film's editor should cut this to the floor but they probably thought nobody would care, that's why this is a B movie.

You like wood? Great, just check out the 'acting' in this abomination. A shame as the camera work is actually ok, but the bloody acting ( if you can call it that) is so stilted and forced it's untrue. I'm about 20 minutes in, but I'm a glutton for punishment... I'll sit through this crap so you don't have too. Yep I'm a martyr. Ok, I've finished it, my opinion hasn't changed, it's bloody awful... Infact I'm knocking a star off from 4 to 3... So contrived it made my eyes bleed.

This was a mishmash of a movie. Wooden acting. Unrealistic. Bad plotting. Starts with a woman typing frantically on computer during a download. Why? Then people get blown up and killed for no apparent reason. Then the movie begins with a contrived situation about bullying so some kid can go on a ride along because it's in the script. After that, you have the tried and tired daughter and estranged father conflict. I like Nicolas cage. I think he's made some great movies -- i.e. Face/Off and Family Man -- but nothing worthwhile in at least 10 years. And worst of all, the acting was like planks of wood interacting. I could smell the ham from my computer. Someone obviously owed someone else a big favor otherwise this movie would never have been green lit.

One may ask why see '211' in the first place? Well, there is an appreciation for action films and bank heist films can be entertaining. Was also part of my "watching as many 2018 films as possible" quest (one of many quests) and although Nicolas Cage is one of the seemingly most hated actors he has done some good films and performances when the material is good and when he reigns in a little more than he usually does.

Having said that, was not expecting an awful lot from '211' having heard a lot of negative things about it, and from recent experience films with negative word of mouth and ratings have turned out to be that bad. Seeing it anyway out of curiosity and as a 2018 film completest, '211' sadly is another one of those films. One of Cage's worst ever films and perhaps his worst since 'The Wicker Man' (though that is perhaps debatable. Always try to look out for the good things in bad films, but '211' has none of them, all of it is bad and ugly even at its worst.

It is hard to know where to begin with the criticisms for '211'. An obvious starting point would be the acting. Most of it is more wooden than marionettes with a complete lack of personality or engagement, going through the motions is being generous. And then on the other end of the scale there is Cage in a performance that is hammier than one finds in a gammon roast dinner, not as bad as his infamously terrible performance in 'The Wicker Man' but goodness isn't it close.

They did have to work from a dire script, with a complete lack of natural flow, more cheese than the largest cheeseburger and filled to the brim with unintentional hilarity. As well as caricatured archetypes passing for characters that have no realism to them whatsoever, basically a clichéd battle of personality-deprived good characters and hammy and flat villains.

'211' is yet another film that has its characters being bland or obnoxious with frustrating and illogical character behaviours and vague motivations. The stupidity of the villains is unreal. Not excusing the bad acting in case one is wondering, there are many examples of actors and actresses who at least try, and a good deal of them succeed, to make the most with what they're given, unless the role is so horrendously written that even the best of them would make a hash out of it and there have been many examples of that too.

Even the production values are not good, it constantly looks like it was made in a rush and looks cheaper than some films with lower budgets. It's also intrusively scored and dully directed, but it's the story that is the biggest flaw. No tension, no suspense, no excitement and no sense of fun.

Story-wise, everything is so over-familiar, both simplistic and confused and so erratic in pace, with non-stop implausibility and has goofs so numerous and so glaring it insults the intelligence and muddles the film. The action is chaotically edited, clumsily choreographed and is just so bland.

Concluding, a disaster and this is a genuine review from someone who did see it with no prejudicial feelings against it. 1/10 Bethany Cox

So so so many thing wrong with this movie. From the first scene "transferring money," there is so much cheesiness, I seriously asked myself, "Who the hell picked these actors?" The actors are completely terrible, please don't ever cast them again, except Cage. the script is corny, and the lines made me face-palm.

There are also so many things wrong factually with the movie. So many missteps by production, like details they failed to overlook completely, to make scenes seems obviously fake. Sure there's plenty of action, but when someone is on a laptop, doing a money transfer, they're not going to be wrapping on the keys like they're typing up their final thesis for a masters degree. And when a computer process bar is finished, it should vanish, not restart, and if it restarts, and the actors says the transfer is complete, you shouldn't show the screen at the same moment... Going to a gun store to inquire about hard to come by weapons that a rogue spec ops team might be acquiring, and asking about AR-15's, is kind of wrong. AR-15's are civilian rifles, not special ops guns only para-military would illegally acquire to rob a bank. This made me laugh..

My next point takes me back to the actors, if you're going to portray highly trained rogue special forces, at least do some training for your actors, and make sure they get it right. Like when they are loading up before the bank robbery, and they're grabbing all their guns, you wouldn't pick up your pistol, rack the slide, then load the magazine and rack it again and holster it. Same with the rifles. Guy picks up his rifle, racks the charging handle like 5 times before putting his 100 round double drum magazine in it. Just doesn't happen that way... It has to be believable.

I honestly feel like I wasted 60 minutes of my time watching this, and I say 60 minutes because that's when I just turned it off. When the "video message" got recorded, that was the last straw of the cheesy horrible acting I could take. Couldn't even make it through the entire film.

Whoever directed this, needs to never direct another movie again. And Nicolas Cage, you should know better, you're better than this...

In this movie (which I know is fictional) cops seem so incompetent/ can't shoot!!! It was so unrealistic I was actually hurting an stoped watching! NO NO NO..If the movie is lacking in substance don't just fill it with mindless shoothing (where every one misses)....just don't make it! And a 1 star is to much..

At the time of writing this review, after actually watching this movie, the rating was 4.4 with 21% giving this a 1/10. Nicolas Cage really does have some haters, and I bet in this case many of them didn't even watch this movie before voting 1.

This is definitely not a 1/10 movie, my rating of 6/10 is in my opinion more accurate and I would have rated it higher except for a few issues I had with some of the acting and a few incidents that were a bit over the top.

I am not a huge Nicolas Cage fan, but I definitely don't think he is a bad actor, some of his movies are not the best and while this one is not one of his best, it is definitely not his worst and worth more than 4.4/10.

Basically a bank robbery gone wrong movie, with a bit of background drama thrown in. Some good action scenes and some pretty stupid actions on behalf of some of the characters, but overall an OK movie.

If you like shoot em ups, this one is for you. If you just don't like Nicolas Cage movies, just because, then this is not for you.

Not a movie I would see over and over, but OK for 80 minutes of entertainment.

This was just awful. Bad acting, bad script, bad director. I remember when Cage was box office gold. Gone but not forgotten. He should probably set his career on maybe a TV series, because his film days are gone. This was a real stink fest.

This entertained me. Some of the acting was a bit hammy in parts. Cage and Dwayne Cameron are fine. Some of the others are weak though.

It's supposed to be based on a real event, the North Hollywood shootout in 1997. There's nothing similar between that event and this movie. So forget it. Sit back and enjoy a basic action movie

Good action scenes, but terrible acting, awful script, cliched characters and predictable deaths.

Bank heist movie in the vein of "End of Watch" meets "Black Hawk Down".

REALLY?

No. It's garbage. Poorly written and poorly directed. Cage is clearly in need oc cash so e's making these 5 day shoot movies now. He looks old . The acting of the secondary characters is dreadful. The plot makes no sense. The entire movie is a waste of time

Don't waste your time. One of the baddest action movies of all time. Awful story, bad acting. Nicholas Cage is just a passenger of this movie. A real insult to the Spec Ops.

This movie is a 1 raised to a 5 by Nicolas Cage. The writing and directing are a joke. The story is basic and okay, it is the actual lines that are written that are embarrassing, I would swear a 14 year old with zero life experience wrote it. Unfortunately, Shackleton had just enough family money and influence to make this. It is saved a little by the fact that Cage can do a lot without any directing. The other participants, can't call them actors, really needed some direction and just didn't get it. So I beg you, York (yes, that is his name, you know, like the peppermint pattie) I beg you take all that family money and "hard earned snowboarding money" and donate it to a charity, you are just not talented enough to use it properly.

Oh my god where to start... like a few police people are under fire with a teenager and all 5 police people run ahead and not ONE grabs the kid to run. They are just like " yeahh see ya!" And then in the hospital when she runs up to the husband , just about pushed the doctors OUT OF THE WAY... when they try to save het husbands life. What!??! I mean , not even the kid doing a movie internship that day on set said:" hey I think we might be a bit unrealistic here" and did you see that guy who's leg was BLOWN OFF and the doctor in the hospital just sort of tabs it with a cloth like " there there , that will do"

I did not understand why the rating is 4.2. I won't say this is a great movie but I found it entertaining, and time well spent. I expected a better and more thrilling end though. The escape plan of the bank robbers did not look like a plan. The storyline is also more or less predictable. But still I liked it for the way it was presented. I liked the characters too. I recommend watching the movie.

This film was so bad. The acting & Plot was so stupid & boring. Most of the characters are stupid as hell. Even Cage can't save this pile of rubbish. It was just another easy pay day for Cage. Don't watch 211

I normally don´t write reviews but this time i´ll do it. I agree that Nic Cage has made a lot of awful movies lately but this one is not bad att all. I think that most people who hates Cage just put one star and that´s it. I recommend you to see it if you´re just want to see action and nothing else. It´s far away from the best movie but definetely a step in the right direction for Cage and the actors were good as well

If you are a knowledgeable person you would know what a 211 is anyway, it is the Police code for "robbery". Yet, it is also the name of the production company, "211 Productions", maybe a coincidence yet I would hardly have thought so.

The movie is quite fast moving from start to finish, it's action-packed. Not very long for a Nicolas Cage movie, but nevertheless it is worth watching. It's one of those movies that if you start watching it, you will want to watch the rest.

At first I read the review someone else had left, which made sound bad, to be honest it is not a bad movie, even though it went straight to VOD. Nicolas Cage does have some great movies behind him, there are a couple that I would say are worse, but this is definitely not one of them. If you are a fan of his movies, then you will enjoy this movie just like the rest.

Nicolas did look at this movie script in 2014, but if you look back on his movie career, you will soon see he cannot do every movie that he's offered. I personally, like his movies and this one is no exception, not his best but good either way.

You might get a kick out of finding errors or the head scratching tactics being portrayed but do not expect much or you will be disappointed.

That's 1 to many stars for this movie. My 6 year old will make it better.