Opinión de CinemaSerf

I usually reckon that heist movies are always more interesting as the plotters get together and do their scheming, then they fall away a bit as very, very, rarely do they ever get away with their crime. Well this one has the scheming phase, ok, but it isn't remotely interesting. Donald Sutherland heads the cast with what's almost an identical reprise of his quirky "Oddball" character from "Kelly's Heroes" (1970). This time he's a stock car racing addict "Feldini" who has been released from his latest term in prison with one last chance before they just throw away the key. He has allied himself with a gang of like-minded folks and together they have decided it is time to get away from it all. To that end, they decide to refurbish an old wartime flying boat and head off into the sunset. The thing needs parts, though. Lots and lots of them, and they have no cash. Their only solution is revert to their thieving ways and so a raid on an air force base has to be planned and executed. Along the way, we discover that his arch nemesis is none other than his brother - now a politically minded cop (Howard Hesseman) and we meet his long-suffering pal "Iris" (Jane Fonda) and so there are now some antics between all of them that really only clutters up the really limited potential of this screwball plot that, for me at any rate, just fizzled out. It's got quite a toe-tapping country music-style original score but in the main it's a weakly written vehicle for a star who is going through the lacklustre comedy motions before we build to a conclusion that really let the whole thing down. Sutherland is charismatic, there's no doubt about that, but Fonda offers little of value and it's a long old ninety minutes that has little point.