Honest Thief (2020)

It was no accident that I stopped at this movie. Already from its title reeked of some unreality, not fantasy, but exactly unreality. That is, there can be no such thing in life. At least, life experience indicates that. After all, usually if a person is honest, he does not steal, but if he has become a thief, he cannot be called honest. Honest people, by definition, should not take what is not theirs.

And so, of course, I really wanted to know what happened. The story, which is told here, is simply striking in its naivety. From the beginning it was clear that the plot was not based on real events, but since the message was positive, I wanted to think that it was possible. After all, loving a woman always makes men so much better than they really are.

The movie “Honest Thief,” for all the criminality of its plot, is actually very romantic and even sentimental. It has several undeniable advantages over those weak movies that are currently being released. First, it is beautifully shot, although its small budget is evident in many scenes. Secondly, it has some fine actors. The honest criminal played by Liam Neeson, is shaded by his younger antagonist – Jai Courtney, and, of course, Robert Patrick, famous as the metal terminator. Perhaps because of poor finances, the chases are not too epic, as we are used to in American movies, and the fights are not too beautiful. But all this is redeemed by a good portion of humor, which is always a pleasure in movies with a criminal plot. After watching it, the only regret remains that, in fact, such stories are very rare.

And the main advantage of this movie is that you can watch it with the whole family, there are no bed scenes and there is not much violence and blood. It is safe to refer this movie to the genre of criminal lyrical melodrama. If, of course, such exists.