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Masterminds (2016)



Masterminds (2016)





3/10



Starring
Zach Galifianakis
Owen Wilson
Kristen Wiig
Kate McKinnon


Directed by Jared Hess


Masterminds is a movie I’d like to forget I saw. It wasn’t just a waste of time but also a waste of effort on the part of the writers, producers, and director.

I don’t believe Zach Galifianakis’s style of comedy is worthy of a full-length film where he stars as the lead. I enjoyed his part in his breakthrough movie, The Hangover (2009). There, he wasn’t the lead or the main character but part of a pack, and his dumbness was enjoyable as it played to the movie’s strength. Here, his dumbness is overly pronounced on screen, drowning out any possibility of overlooking it.

Since The Hangover (2009), I’ve struggled to warm up to Zach’s style of comedy, where he plays a dumb character in serious situations.

Backing him up in this movie are Owen Wilson, Kristen Wiig, and Kate McKinnon—all of whom added to the waste of time I felt watching this movie. None of these characters delivered a memorable performance or even one worth noting as standing out.

In addition to these, there’s Leslie Jones and Jason Sudeikis. You’d think with all these actors, there’d be at least one scene where they delivered or made me laugh hard, but no such moment existed.

The cast of the movie may be well-known names in comedy, but the comedy in this movie is dull. The moment the jokes show up, you start to smile, and by the time they land, your smile is gone. The movie couldn’t drive home a single scene of laughter. The characters were over-the-top silly, and the plot wasn’t strong, as the story was wacky. If you add those two together, we have a wacky movie with extremely silly characters, making sure you regret every minute spent watching it.

The movie plot centers around David (Zach Galifianakis), a guard at an armored car company. He’s set to get married but has the hots for his co-driver, Kelly (Kristen Wiig). Kelly always fantasized about stealing the money they transport, though she never intended to go through with it.
She resigned from her job due to lack of fulfillment, got a less fulfilling job, and was depressed when her brother-in-law, Steve (Owen Wilson), convinced her to use her connections to pull off a robbery of the armored truck company.

She recalled David, whom she knew had feelings for her, and decided to play on those feelings. With Steve’s help, they convinced David to rob his company (which he did), bring the money to them, and run away to Mexico until the coast was clear, at which point Kelly would join him.

Steve and Kelly turned on him, though Kelly felt guilty about it, and Steve ratted David out to the cops.

Well, you’d have to see the movie to see how it all went down—though I strongly advise you not to.


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