The Old Man and the Gun (2018)
Charming crime movie that tells the (mostly) true story of Forrest Tucker from his daring prison escape aged 70 to an unprecedented string of bank robberies that confounded the law.
82 year old Robert Redford is excellent as Tucker and heads a fine cast (Casey Affleck, Sissy Spacek, Danny Glover, Tom Waits, Elisabeth Moss) in this rather sedate take on the heist movie genre.
The film is as much about the performances as it is the story though and with these what i call 'real' actors it's easy to get involved in the film, in their reality, in fact it's so easy it's effortless.
For what was supposedly Robert Redford's final acting job before retirement it's a fitting swan song.
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