How to rob a bank is a dramatic comedy written by Mark Bianculli and directed by David Leitch (already behind The Fall Guy and Bullet Train) with a cast rich from Nicholas Hoult, Pete Davidson, Zoë Kravitz, John C. Reilly, released on November 12, 2026 and could not be more current. Combining the story of Luigi Mangione (the American-italo who killed the CEO of health insurance) in the world of the House of Carta, the film is a very ritmato and contemporary heist movie, but which fails to go beyond a comic structure and a little too artifact.
Come rapinare una banca, la recensione: social e sociale
Without making too many spoilers the plot is quite simple: the protagonists are a group of robbers who use social media videos to create their own follow-up and tell How to rob a bank, all to realize a complex plan that has strong ties with the personal events of the protagonists. Because when everything is personal, when there is a more human hook beyond the socio-economic one it is easier to place a film. The film’s message, in the end, is also useful to suffocate on the birth of the attempts of social movements that are emerging in this historical period in all parts of the world, because the welfare of the individual prevails on the community and when a movement starts there are the interests of the individual.
In a historical moment in which the images of the split windows indignate more than the motivations of those who peacefully manifest, How to rob a bank (produced by Amazon MGM Studios) realizes an operation for which talking about great social themes very linked to the US system, but which can find their forms of adaptation in other countries, shows the fallacy of the movements of square, moved by private intent and easily degenerable in uncontrollable violence. Important claims therefore become only the pretext for a film that has its best moments of course in the renowned robberies.
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Pregi e difetti
How to rob a bank is a film that works, that entertains and that could go to intercept that taste of the Gen Z (down) attracted by social phenomena, while it could struggle more like the millennials (as who writes) anchored to a more social and idealist movements that feel a little insulted by this pretentious use of social claims. A bit like the disturbing and offensive use of Bella Ciao inside La Casa di Carta, to hide behind the spirit revolutionizing private enrichment.
As already happened with Verity, even that of Amazon MGM Studios, the film is thought for streaming, sharing, social comment, distraction of those who watch. The sound carpet guides the vision, capturing the distracted audience and bringing it back to the screen at the right time. The private element, personal of the protagonists suddenly falls, as if it were a film in the film, slowing the pace in a way not necessary with an excess of visual representation of the relationships that was not necessary. At least not done like that.
The characters of Zoe Kravitz and John C. Reilly (perhaps also because of the dubbing that makes them unnatural, remain incomprehensible because making dubbing projections) appear too stains, especially that of Kravitz which seems built only to generate memes. The feeling, unfortunately, is that in too many times the authors (or those for them) have thought more about creating scenes to be put back on social media than the story they wanted to carry out. How to rob a bank is not altogether a bad film, but comes a bit to wonder what is the audience you intend to intercept? Who hopes to see him? Young people under 30? To the results of the box office the arduous sentence.
Vote: 6.5
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