Where the Money Is

The Coen brothers might have done something inspired with this, but director Kanievska... turns out a more modestly entertaining little low-budget movie.

Coasts to a smooth, frictionless stop, but its star doesn't; he works as if his career depended on this movie.

The film makers are so anxious to please their audience that they turn the last act into a preposterous cat-and-mouse game that nullifies the integrity of the story.

Hazards nothing to speak of and asks chiefly to be congratulated for its modesty.

A forced, implausible flick that loses its energy as it tries to gain momentum.

The only way the film could have had a prayer of working--and thereby tapping its stars' considerable strengths--is by taking a much harder edge and going for dark, even bleak humor.

Newman's charismatic, multishaded performance elevates the hodgepodge caper comedy a couple of notches above its preposterous plotting and self-consciously movieish texture.