This was a good movie 2014? I thought it was made in 2017 till I seen the date. Glad I watched it

This is one of those movies , and I'll name a handful where it seems like really real. PORT of New Orleans Bad Detective, Scanner Darkly, Less Than Zero....and there are more. But to me, this movie doesn't have any acting. Adrian Brody doesn't know any better than to be bullied by our Black cast.Hayden is his younger brother working as a lube tech and suddenly gets intimate with a new girlfriend that needed him to take a look at her vehicle..who too happens to work at the Police Dept. as a dispatch operator. No problems.Just a sad epidemic of crime,sex,blackmail...and I'm only half way into it... This film could inspire a narration for every episode of INTERVENTION on television. And again, it seems that the white guy is the pawn to the extraordinarily stronger and smarter black guy, who for some reason doesn't get killed arrested or a restraining order against them makes the movie delve as far as it has already.

The plot is ridiculous, characters boring. I was expecting a good heist, but no, they had to talk about a toothpaste and the heist lasted for a mere crappy 15 minutes. Very strong indeed.Story-1/10 Every story is a good one. This movie has no story, thus the 1. It said American Heist, I was expecting a movie with the characters carrying out successful heists, even if just one and failing at the end. However, this is not the case. What is a heist movie with a just a fleeting moment of a heist that was so crappy my granny could've carried it out better? American Heist.Soundtrack - 2/10 Nothing noticeable.Character development - 1/10 I must say, the characters were so bland and boring. None of them were captivating at all. The retarded brother was the worst of them all.

Armenian director Sarik Andreasyan's first English-language film "American Heist" is a generic, sometimes pretentious, B-movie crime thriller about an abortive New Orleans bank heist. The thing that bothered me throughout this lackluster 95-minute epic was why Oscar-winning actor Adrian Brody went slumming to make this minor exercise in formula film making. Sure, I can understand why Hayden Christensen might make a grubby little bit of grit like this to show off his acting chops, get to brandish a firearm, and distance himself from the "Star Wars" galaxy. Actually, Christensen isn't bad. Perhaps some of Brody's Method-like acting rubbed off on him. I can't understand why gorgeous Jordana Brewster would grovel as Christensen's romantic interest in this fair to middling potboiler. Clearly, everybody must have been motivated by a paycheck. First, you have to understand that this is a saga about losers. Frankie (Adroan Brody) has some pals who protected him in prison from perverts that wanted to rape him with toothpaste strong-arm him into participating in their heist, and he strings along his brother James. Incidentally, Frankie served 10 years in prison for killing a cop, and he emerges from prison at the start of the movie to visit his younger brother James. James spent 16 months behind bars and now toils as a mechanic. James dreams of establishing his own shop, but the bank denies him a loan. Of course, this makes James a sympathetic character."American Heist" begins with James hearing gunshots in a building and then the film flashbacks to a day earlier, and we see him toiling as an auto mechanic. He catches up with an old flame, Emily (Jordana Brewster of "The Fast and the Furious"), who had left New Orleans after Katrina. She is back now working as a dispatchers for the New Orleans Police Department. After Frankie gets out of jail, he visits his younger brother and they meet later at a small bar. Frankie tells James about an idea for flipping and fixing houses and introduces him to his associates Ray (Tory Kittles of "Dirty") and Sugar (Akon of "Coach Carter"), who will provide the upfront money. As it turns out, Ray and Sugar are two heavily armed, trash-talking thugsters who make James complicit in their illegal shenanigans. They ride in James' Duster to a remote location, shoot it up, and flee with a security SUV hot on their trail, but James manages to lose the rent-a-cop. Ray orders James to get rid of the Duster.Now, James is supremely upset with his sleazy, no-good brother for not watching out for him. Frankie shows up at James' house with Ray and Sugar in tow. Sugar takes the Duster and ditches it with Ray sits on the front steps and talks about a proposed bank job. Ray spouts off like he knows something about life when he justifies their decision to rob a bank. Consider Ray's rant: "Take a look around, kid. What do you see? Homes being foreclosed. People working two, three jobs just to put food on the table and still drowning in debt. Don't get me wrong. This country was founded on great ideals and principles. But they've all been ruined by the banks. Open your eyes, Jimmy. It's the banks that are robbing you." And then later Ray adds, "You know who my favorite president was? Thomas Jefferson. Because he saw all of this coming and tried to stop it. He fought the banks. JFK, too, and they killed him for it. 'The banking institution is more dangerous than an army,' he said. He also said that every generation needs a revolution, Jimmy. The American dream is just that, just a f#*king dream." James knows that he is in deep crap when Ray tells him "to get some sleep, but no sleep walking." What clinches everything is Ray's next line: "Any problems you cause will be very bad for your brother." Whether he likes it or not, James is trapped between a rock and a hard place. Ray explains how the heist will work. "War is a continuation of politics, only by other means. Politics is a continuation of economics by other means. This is our bank. This is our war. And this is our plan of attack." As it turns out, James will hijack several cars and blow them up to distract the police. At this point, "American Heist" gets interesting. The gang plans to create distractions just as Steve McQueen and his cronies did in Sam Peckinpah's "The Getaway." Naturally, since this is a 'crime does not pay' thriller, the heist fails and fails miserably when an innocent bystander crossing the street spots the robbery. Later, James learns that his wayward brother Frankie put sugar in Emily's gas tank. Frankie warns James that things will go bad for Emily if James screws upThe best part of "American Heist" is the heist itself. Of course, everything goes wrong for the robbers. Nevertheless, Andreasyan demonstrates a modicum of talent during the robbery that takes place in the last half-hour. Ray is cold-blooded when he blasts the bank manager at point blank. The police chopper that crashes into the building is an unexpected delight. Frankie's last ditch effort to redeem himself occurs near fade-out when he dresses James as a bank customer and smuggles him out as a hostage. Mind you, Brody delivers a brilliant performance as the scumbag brother, while Christensen is tolerable as his callow brother. Brewster is squandered as eye candy. You have to wonder if James and Emily hook up after the botched bank robbery. "American Heist" is a potboiler with an adequate budget, some strong performances, and a well staged bank heist. Ray's rants are interesting, but nothing about his little 'us against the system' opus qualifies as memorable.