Teenage Bank Heist
Cassie works as a teller at the bank where her mother is the branch manager. When the bank is robbed, Cassie is taken hostage. She soon finds out that the bank robbers are teenage girls, one of whom is her best friend, Abbie. In this propulsive real time, ticking clock thriller, as the girls are on the run from the police, we learn that the real motivation behind the robbery is something unexpected.
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- Cast:
- Maeve Quinlan , Abbie Cobb , Cassi Thomson , Augie Duke , Davida Williams , James Ferris , Rosa Blasi
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Good: The pacing is well done, enough to keep you wanting to know what happens at the end. Acting is decent enough.Bad: Many other things. With a movie name that has 'Teenage' in it, you know to expect some dumb decisions. Problem is you cannot have characters that create Sherlock-like plans one minute then do many other things on the level of a bratty first grader five minutes later. And this includes parents and cops. The ending(if you are over age 16) will make you say WTF. This movie plays more like a long after-school TV special and not exaggerating that last statement.
Cassie (Abbie Cobb) is a reluctant bank teller for her mother Joyce (Maeve Quinlan). Then 3 robbers come in. Cassie recognizes one of them as her best friend Abbie (Cassi Thomson), and she's taken hostage. She crashes the armor truck and injures her other friend Grace (Davida Williams). She helps them take care of Grace and finds out the real reason for the robbery. The other girl Marie (Augie Duke) is older and is doing it for the money with her boyfriend Nick (James Ferris). Meanwhile police agent Mendoza (Rosa Blasi) suspects that Cassie is actually in on the robbery.It's an ambitious bank heist story, and a passable Lifetime movie. The girls are perfectly likable. The dialog is a little clunky at times. It starts off slowly, but it gets better. However the ambitious plot goes over the edge with a lack of overall style and competent action directions. A big screen movie would push the action to the next level, but this just doesn't have the next gear.
I missed the second 1/2 of this to visit a friend in the hospital, but since its a lifetime movie, got to catch it on the second play. Now I'm wishing I wouldn't have bothered! It started out well, but SO MANY plot holes! Someone else mentioned this already, but left out the biggest one...OK she robbed a bank and they're pinning it on someone else...but there's TWO DEAD PEOPLE SHE SHOT JUST LAYING THERE IN HER HOUSE!!!! And the movie just ENDS, no mention of this, just "ok get out of here, I'll take care of this". They had this woman arguing about leaving her daughter (I still don't know why) but it's perfectly fine the other girl murdered 2 people. That just spoiled the whole thing for me, and made me want the 2 hours I spent watching this back.
This movie had just too many plot holes. There are, in fact, three armored security guards per truck. Not two. - The money held in banks is marked, so while the girl could've used it to barter for her father, she wouldn't have been able to use it herself unless she had a money laundering business. Bagging and keeping anything above her required 500,000 would have been pointless. She seemed smart enough to have known this, given her heisting abilities. - The mother could have easily been arrested for actions. - The final fight where the FBI agent gives the gun to the dead Mexican...A) his prints would not have been on it. His fingers were barely touching.B) did she wipe that gun before handing it over?C) the gun was shot at the man in question, therefore cops would have noticed that the gun was used agaisnt him, and not that he used it agaisnt the FBI agent. D) The Mexican had a fully loaded AK47 at his feet... With his fingerprints all over it. Why would he be seen dead holding that crappy pistol?Just wrong. Wrong!