'The Old Man & The Gun': Redford's (Possible) Swan Song Makes For Easy Listening
In what may be his final screen performance, Robert Redford amiably cakewalks through David Lowery's old-school, old-fashioned cops-and-robbers yarn.
Let's get the cheap lazy jokes out of the way at the top:
It's Catch Me if You Can on Geritol.
It's The Great Train Robbery (Seniors Discount Fare).
It's The (All-You-Can Eat) Italian (Pasta-Buffet) Job. Okay. Enough.
What writer/director David Lowery's actually turns out to be, of course, is exactly what it looks like: a defiantly unhurried and genially old-fashioned cops-and-robbers yarn, built around
