Article: All logic, humor are stolen from `Bank Robber'

BANK ROBBER

Directed by Nick Mead (USA)

There's the germ of a promising comic idea in "Bank Robber," but it's soon run into the ground, swamped by rampant ineptitude. The idea is to set up Patrick Dempsey as a bank robber who actually succeeds in getting away from a bank with a bagful of money. But from that point on, he's the one who's robbed. It begins with the bank manager lying about the amount stolen and pocketing the difference. But Dempsey's real troubles begin when he realizes he's been photographed by a security camera and holes up in a cheap hotel. Because his face has been plastered all over TV, it doesn't take long

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