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Rent Flypaper (2011)

Tripp (Patrick Dempsey) ambles into a bank, just as two different gangs try to rob it. A shoot-out erupts, and Tripp has to protect the smart, pretty teller Kaitlin (Ashley Judd). The gangs - one clearly made up of pros and the other a couple of idiots - have deadlocked themselves in a Mexican standoff. The security system starts the end-of-day lockdown and seals everyone into the building.

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Reviewed by: JD
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Flypaper review by JD

Complexly plotted humour.

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This has everything. Slapstick scenes with military grade explosives (is that better than mining grade or for that matter terrorist grade) oceans 10 type crime planning, romantic comedy and a complex plot which is a little tricky to follow. So why 3 stars, (at the time of typing the average rating was 2)? Not sure, it just doesn't hang together well; possibly too many genres in one space, possibly the juxtaposition of humour and cold violence. It is a formula Hollywood production (hero does incredible thing and meets girl who doesn't like him at first but then does) but is saved from sickly sweet banality by a good whodunnit middle section.