The Old Man & The Gun\u00a0is the last film Robert Redford has said he will act in. At 82, he puts in a great performance as Forrest Tucker (not the actor from F Troop), a bank robber who is very polite and gentlemanly. It is based on a true story that was written up in The New Yorker magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n The cast is superb, and there are several standouts, most notably Sissy Spacek as Jewel, a woman he befriends when her pickup breaks down. There is palpable chemistry between her and Redford, and it sustains a very interesting story.<\/p>\n This is the first film from the Fall session of the Arthouse Film Festival.<\/a>\u00a0It’s a low key, but tense film, with some comedy mixed in. I highly recommend this film, and I suspect it will do well at the box office when it goes into a wider distribution at the end of this week (last week in September). I have seen ZERO advertising for it, so I suspect that it will prosper via word of mouth.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n When I say Low Key,\u00a0 it plays like Mr. Tucker’s personality – very cool and not excitable. It takes place in 1981, a time when there were no cell phones, no Internet, and pay phones. It was shot on Super 16MM film stock, which is rare these days. It gives the film a grainy-ness that a film from that time would have. You see a lot of closeups of Redford and Spacek, lines and all. It does help the mood. The soundtrack has some songs of the times, but the incidental music has a big of a jazzy feel to it.<\/p>\n This is a career criminal at the top of his game. He’s done this hundreds of times, with his co-conspirators – Teddy (Danny Glover) and Waller (Tom Waits). Nobody panics, no one gets hurt, and the escapes are properly planned.<\/p>\n Redford and Spacek are the core of the film, but all the supporting players have their moments, too. Its runtime is only 1 hour 33 minutes, but it feels like a much longer film because it takes its time and doesn’t really feel rushed.<\/p>\n This has probably become one of my favorite films of the year, so far. Definitely a contender.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Capsule Review (minor spoilers) The Old Man & The Gun\u00a0is the last film Robert Redford has said he will act in. At 82, he puts in a great performance as Forrest Tucker (not the actor from F Troop), a bank robber who is very polite and gentlemanly. It is based on a true story that … Continue reading The Old Man & The Gun (2018)<\/span> Standard Review<\/h6>\n