11/29/2023 0 Comments Tower heist rotten tomatoes![]() Like a marmalade that will only go so far, they began to water-down the story in order to spread it out for as long as they could make it last, ultimately making it almost unappetizable. With some engaging characters and a money heist script with several twists, this started off SO WELL!!! Unfortunately, however, it would seem that sometime during the first season someone realized they had an audience they wanted to keep around for a while, and from that moment on, it went downhill, quickly. Considering how it ended, not sure how that's possible, but the producers did manage to turn what should have been a 8-or-so episode mini-series into a 2-season, 22-episode series. And apparently there's a Season 3 in the works. And yet it still got drawn out, by about 2-3 episodes too many. By the end I just wanted it to be over, so my intelligence would no longer be insulted. So the plot only makes sense if you're mind-bogglingly stupid. However, A would mean the series ends, so the character does B, and the series continues. The dumb plot developments became predictable, eg you have a situation where a character has a choice and the logical thing, the thing people would do 100% of the time in real life, is to do A. By Season Two it was open season, with dumb stuff being the norm. During the first season the good, clever plot developments generally outweighed the random, implausible, stupid ones. ![]() The further into the series one went, the worse it got. It could not have been more random if they brought in a different writer for each episode, and told them not to read the scripts of the previous episodes. It was as if the writers wrote each scene independent of what had happened before. In addition, having established their characters in the first few episodes, the robbers then do several things counter to their characters. What's worse, the errors, solutions and escapades were incredibly implausible, just being antics for action sake. One escapade lead to another: robber has to fix some error, fixes it, unwittingly causes another issue, now has to fix that, rinse and repeat. Instead of being tight, the plot diverged into silly escapades. From here on I expected a taught, gritty battle of wits and wills between the robbers and the police. It was also engaging: you got to know the individual characters of the heisters, as well as who they were up against. The initial plot - the plan to secure the Mint and make off with over $2 billion Euros - was very clever and intriguing. Entertaining, initially, and could have been a masterpiece. If it succeeds, they'll make off with over $2 billion Euros. But it's all part of the Professor's plan. They appear to bungle it, ending up holed up in the Mint with 67 hostages. A band of robbers, lead by a man known simply as 'the Professor', infiltrate and rob the Spanish National Mint. ![]()
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