Germany, United States · 2011
Rated R · 1h 27m
Director Rob Minkoff
Starring Patrick Dempsey, Ashley Judd, Tim Blake Nelson, Mekhi Phifer
Genre Mystery, Comedy, Crime
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A man caught in the middle of two simultaneous robberies at a bank desperately tries to protect the teller with whom he's secretly in love.
Every once in a while a movie comes along that is so bad it makes you feel terrible for everyone involved. Flypaper, a new indie that's little more than a haphazard assemblage of clichés, clunky camera tricks and cringe-worthy dialogue, is just such a film.
It isn't long, however, before the film's caricatured bad-guy shtick starts to wear gossamer thin, and an overabundance of "clever" twists-no one is [Yawn] who they seem to be! - begins to sap whatever little goodwill has been built up.
Strenuous and just fitfully amusing.
New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
It's a mess from start to finish, but there's still fun to be had in Rob Minkoff's caper comedy.
Christian Science Monitor by Peter Rainer
One thought that occurred to me while pacing myself through Flypaper: With the economy being what it is, will there be a rash of bank robbery movies?
The New York Times by Rachel Saltz
Full of indie mannerisms - compulsive swearing, jokey violence, quirk-laden characters - Flypaper can't quite manage to find a style or a comic groove of its own.
Everything and everyone acts as cogs in a relentless plot machine that keeps twisting and twisting like an annoying little gizmo on Christmas morning.
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