Review – The Score

The Bore would have been a more apt appellation. Here’s yet another retelling of the same old last-heist-and-I’m-out caper movie, with Robert DeNiro as the crusty old yegg and Ed Norton as the somewhat-too-eager newcomer. Perhaps if they’d saved some of the cash they spent to have Her Royal Highness Marlon Brando traipse around the set and spent it on a script, they might have come up with a better movie. Certainly they might have hired a writer who could have worked in more character motivation for the last-minute double-crosses and maybe devoted less screen time to go-nowhere film stock wasters such as a thoroughly uninteresting romance and long sequences in which DeNiro seems to do little besides walk from place to place. With this cast a better film might easily have been made. See if desperate