MOVIE REVIEW

Easy, he said. A sure thing, he said. A great payday for 15 minutes of work, he said.

Well, Mr. Besegai said wrong.

Sure, any good crook would know that easy, lucrative, sure crime heistsare rare. And robbing Boston’s corrupt mayor? Yeah, that adds a few layers of difficulty.

But this caper doesn’t come with a good crook.

This is Rory’s first robbery. Ever. The former Marine might’ve been hired because of his military training, but he was a mechanic. Change a sparkplug, and Rory’s your guy. Be Jason Bourne? Not so much.

Coppy, the crew’s ever-chatty second man, has at least some experience in crime. Why, he even did a three-year stint behind bars—which, come to think of it, doesn’t exactly instill confidence. (Ideally, you try not to get caught.)

And the point man, Scalvo? Well, let’s just say he’s seen Scarface a few too many times.

But Besegai insists that even this crew can pull it off. All they need to do is raid Mayor Miccelli’s re-election victory party. Boston businessmen and contractors will be lining up to drink his champagne, kiss his ring and pay his obligatory bribe. The crooked politician will probably pocket several hundred thousand dollars in tax-free graft before the liquor’s gone—and it’ll be all in cash.

So all our crew must do is get in after the party’s over, tie up a handful of straggling workers, force the mayor’s lackey to hand over the moolah and leave by 6:07 p.m., before an armored truck arrives.

Easy. Lucrative. And as sure a sure thing as the mayor’s own inevitable victory.

Only the mayor doesn’t win.

Only someone already hauled away most of the money, so all that’s left is some spare change.

Only Scalvo—seriously disappointed at the paltry heft of the heist—starts demanding that the mayor and the remaining officials hand over their wallets and jewelry, including Miccelli’s treasured bracelet. And that little dalliance puts them well past their 6:07 departure time.

And then the mask-less Scalvo (who, again, watched way too much Scarface) decides that maybe it’d be best to shoot everybody.

Well.

Only three people wind up getting shot: Scalvo, dead. The chief of police, dead. And Coppy gets hit in the shoulder

He and Rory stagger out of the facility, steal the armored car (which arrived, right on time, at 6:07) and thunder through Boston. They don’t have much of a haul, which’ll upset Mr. Besegai. They do have Mayor Micelli’s bracelet, which ticks off the pol. The two crooks have no money, no friends, Coppy’s bleeding bad and still won’t stop talking.

Easy, he said. Yeah, right.