O Bom Ladrão

I was excited to watch this movie. The cinematography was excellent, the acting was decent and the soundtrack was well executed. However, 20-30 minutes into it I was becoming increasingly dissapointed.

The writing and dialogue is atrocious. The "flashlight" the "honest man" bit were absolutely absurd. The use of Shakespeare quotes was fine until the dialogue explains that they are Shakespeare quotes. I actually started feeling bad for the actors who had to recite the ridiculously awfull lines.

I really wanted to like this movie, I just couldn't.

After the daily "omicron dose", and looking for something entertaining, I went for the new "Good Thief". Like looking for the Beaujolais Nouveau. And I was not disappointed: the plot, the rythm, the actors (a special mention to the Shakespeare's lightness input). And a technical prouesse when considering the light mini-budget spent on the project.

I hope the producers involved in this film will come up with more offers.

Shallow plot line.. Weak dialogue.. Poir acting by all but the black girlfriend.. She was decent.. Maybe it was the lines..? Just bad in every conceivable way.. What was the point..? No message.. No visuals.. No entertainment.. No moral.. Somehow every character was unlikable and nearly all immoral.. What an epic waste of time..! 3 stars is really generous.. Any rating over 3 almost certainly came from one of this movie crew or their family and friends because no one can possible justify this trash.. 🙄

It's a weird piece-meal of guys trying to make a quick buck and the owner of some vintage baseball cards that's also a serial killer. Not sure who the 'good thief' is...cause they're all pretty poor actors.

This was the most nonsense screenplay I've ever seen. Sure this is newb Aaron Sizemore's first writing and producing credit, but didn't anyone who invested money in this film bother reading the ridiculous script and the dumbest dialogue ever written before they wrote a cheque and green lit production?

It started off ok, thanks to good cinematography and decent directing from the experienced Lance Kawas, but didn't even Kawas shake his head at the nonsense as it was being filmed? The flashlight and its holder, Peter Donahue, were very dim bulbs. His acting wasn't the greatest, but everytime he turned that flashlight on, I cringed at him and the writer, for entering such a useless prop into the story. Once the plot-hole-riddled screenplay and horrible dialogue started, I still gave this overly predictable story a chance - only when I kept hearing Shakespearean quotes, expecting perhaps there was some Shakespearean reward with some meaning to all the nonsense in the final act. Nope. All the Shakespeare dialogue was just an out-of-place attempt at intelect for the dumb characters. It felt more like I sat through the last-place play from a 5th grade drama class production.

Aside from the horrible writing and dialogue, the conceptual idea of the story was inviting, but simply executed in the worst possible way. The normally comfortable 96 min runtime felt never-ending. The casting and acting overall was poor, with only "Honest Abe" and "Felix The Fence" being entertaining, and Robert Laenen and Melanie Mahanna being the closest to decent acting and convincing characters.

The score was actually fitting and decent for a B-film. Had it been your typical B-film annoying, loud and unfitting score, this film would've been unwatchable. The trailer and the score combined will make you think this is a primo production; that's the best you will see, and what fooled me into giving this film a chance. I mean even the title makes zero sense. It's a very generous 3/10 from me, all going to the score and fairly decent directing.