Flypaper
A man tries to protect a teller, whom he secretly loves, after two groups rob her bank at the same time. But not everything is at it seems, and there are many twists and turns in this comedy.
2 November 1989, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
27 November 1953, Detroit, Michigan, USA
19 April 1968, Granada Hills, California, USA
8 July 1944, San Francisco, California, USA
12 August 1965
4 June 1969, Columbia, South Carolina, USA
17 July 1963, Ridgewood, Queens, New York, USA
13 January 1966, Lewiston, Maine, USA
11 May 1964, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
5 July 1960, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
11 April 1981, Swansea, Wales, UK
March1969, Hammond, Louisiana, USA
29 December 1974, Harlem, New York City, New York, USA
25 May 1970, Montgomery, Alabama, USA
August 19, 2011
The real question is: How does a movie as weak as this get made? Who read this script and said, "I have to make this movie"?..It's not funny - and that's the real crime.
August 20, 2011
One thought that occurred to me while pacing myself through Flypaper: With the economy being what it is, will there be a rash of bank robbery movies?
August 18, 2011
"Flypaper" has enough twists and surprises to remain interesting in a closed-room, Agatha Christie kind of way. But it's never quite as clever or as hip as it thinks it is.
February 10, 2011
The film is a heist-and-hostage comedy that reminds you that criminals, under pressure, are as neurotic as anyone else.
November 16, 2011
There reaches a point, however, at which the rather limited nature of the movie's premise starts to become a problem...
August 24, 2011
You know there's something wrong with a comedy when you'd rather see the main characters killed off than live happily ever after.
August 19, 2011
A mighty thin and derivative slice of moviemaking.
September 22, 2011
Minkoff doesn't bring a whole lot of originality to the picture, which could use a shot of surprise considering the snoozy bank heist conventions it employs. Still, what he lacks in freshness he makes up for in velocity.
February 03, 2011
May not be well executed, too broad for a script that obviously wants to be a very profane and twisted black comedy, but it's not without a silly charm.
August 19, 2011
In the end, there's just a roomful of decent character actors in search of a point. For them, the titular "Flypaper" may have simply been a paycheck.
February 04, 2011
It's painfully unfunny, and the type of immediately disposable junk one wouldn't expect to see on cable, much less the Sundance Film Festival.
August 19, 2011
It's a mess from start to finish, but there's still fun to be had in Rob Minkoff's caper comedy.
