‘Caper’ Review: An Errant Sext Spurs an Overnight Heist in a Bad Buddy Comedy That Wastes True Chemistry
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variety.comJ. Kim Murphy There are certainly strategies worse than going all-in on New York City neighborhood flavor to sustain a crowd-pleaser.
It isn’t just the power of location shooting, but also the access to a vast array of untapped, scruffy actors living in the area.
Put a bunch of them in a van with a pizza and that could be solid enough foundation for a film. It could even be called something simple — like “Caper.” Does it really need to be more complicated than that?
Perhaps not always, but definitely here. Writer-director Dean Imperial loses on such a gamble with his tedious feature debut, which tracks an unhinged night of escapades between a bunch of poker buddies.
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