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Critics Consensus: A well-told story brought to life by a beautifully matched cast, The Old Man & the Gun is pure, easygoing entertainment for film fans - and a fitting farewell to a legend.
Critic Consensus: A well-told story brought to life by a beautifully matched cast, The Old Man & the Gun is pure, easygoing entertainment for film fans - and a fitting farewell to a legend.
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Well, The Old Man & the Gun isn't a bad note for Redford to end on - certainly better than last year's unfortunately titled Our Souls at Night.
Loose-limbed, rascally and Texan to its bones, The Old Man & the Gun is a throwback to an era when making beautifully understated crime comedies was the peak of Hollywood's ambition (before all the spandex took over).
If this is truly Robert Redford's final performance, he's going out with an exclamation point.
If Clint Eastwood's barely reformed killer was Unforgiven, Robert Redford is unrepentant in this love letter to...Robert Redford.
It's a light, warm story that's punctuated by the power of Redford's smile, one of the best special effects in movie history.
If there's a reason to see the movie, it's Redford, whose charismatic, mature presence argues that age has done nothing to diminish his ability to command the screen.
A light-as-a-feather ride that plays best as a homage to one of the screen's great stars... There's no question this is Redford's movie. Lowery allows him room to put that wry charm to full effect; only Sissy Spacek can keep up.
[A] beautiful swan song from one of the greats. [Full review in Spanish]
With twinkle in his eye and wry smile still melting all kinds of hearts, Redford presents his Forrest Tucker as a criminal whose cold and calculated precision to his craft is matched by the warmth of his personality.
This is a sweet yet simple film, and that's all it really needs to be.
The witty dialogue between Redford and Spacek feels refreshingly romantic, with Lowery abdicating of typical clichés in favor of a tangible honesty...
David Lowery's cinematic farewell to one of the greatest living movie stars, Robert Redford, is an utter delight in every conceivable way.
The last entry for another Hollywood legend, The Old Man and the Gun features Robert Redford in a true-life yarn about an over-the-hill bank robber. We get a fairly straightforward plot, with our protagonist being a lifelong criminal with a penchant for daring escapes, fashionable retro dress, and gentlemanly conduct during robberies. He is pursued by both the FBI and a detective (Casey Affleck) who grows to admire the old man and his grit. It is comparable to The Mule both in plot and the fact that we are saying goodbye to two of the coolest guys who ever graced the Silver Screen. (And how crime has consequences, no matter how likeable and elderly the perpetrator.) Redford gives a charming last ride and you can see why he excelled in the light-hearted crime flicks of yesteryear. Sissy Spacek also hits it out the park and has easy chemistry with Redford. Affleck proves a good foil for the protagonist, as he is a family man who reaches catharsis with his family, despite anti-climatic results for his investigation. As where Redford abandoned his family and CAN'T quit. Ever. He's addicted and will never be content unless 1. He's robbing banks or 2. He's in prison. You almost feel sorry for him, but then you realize that he's doing what he loves and causes minimal collateral damage. The Old Man and the Gun is light on conventional action but has a brisk pace and plenty of entertaining moments to make it a breezy Netflix or rental choice. I'd give it a look.
Super Reviewer
THE OLD MAN & THE GUN (4 Stars) A simple, easygoing joy anchored by Robert Redford delivering a charming swan-song to his career portraying a lifelong bank robber who refuses to quit. Just seeing him paired up with the wonderful Sissy Spacek made me wonder why that has never happened before. A third act montage brought me to tears as we flipped through the pages of a diary, understanding in some cockeyed way, that to stop what you love doing means to die.
Veteran Redford sizes up his acting career in this and opines that he was sort've more like a bank robber, yeah, but one that never uses his gun, okay, cause he didn't have to, right, cause he did it all with charm. ("Why weren't you a method actor! Everybody else was?!" "Cause I did it the old fashioned way. I did it with charm.") And this one's got oodles of that, hoo boy. Sissy Spacek's along for the ride, and Casey Affleck too. And that's it. Done. The End. There's not much else going on here. The end of Bob Redford's acting career. He said he was quitting, right? Right? Or is it?
An elegant and quaint tale of an old outlaw serves as an ode to, not only, Redford's career, but to old fashioned Hollywood storytelling.
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