A poorly imagined crime flick that comes nowhere near justifying its 2.5-hour running time, Olivier Megaton's The Last Days of American Crime adapts a graphic novel in which the U.S.
government has built a mind-control ray — maybe this is that 5G conspiracy the Alex Jones crowd has been ranting about? — that will soon prevent would-be villains from breaking the law.
Hoping to pull off one last heist before that project goes online, three nogoodniks (Edgar Ramirez, Michael Pitt and Anna Brewster) must first manage to fit their egos into the same room long enough to forge a plan.
But their hard-boiled attitudes are transparently phony, and Megaton (the not-exactly-nuclear talent behind some Taken and Transporter sequels) isn't sly enough to.
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