If ever there was a time to release a film like this it’s now, in the aftermath of the recent midterm “bluenami.” Though it doesn’t channel anything so cool as the thrillingly subversive rage of David Fincher’s 1999 Fight Club, David Leitch’s film — with kudos to Mark Bianculli’s intelligent script — is at least an honorable attempt to replicate that film’s visceral impact. It’s a shame, then, that How to Rob a Bank doesn’t go the full distance; the marketing campaign promises a digital-guerilla heist movie, when what it actually delivers is quite an old-fashioned, Falling Down-style cat-and-mouse caper,
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