Three local idiots rob a bank, with the bank owner's assistance, and then everyone starts dying. The movie takes the approach of starting with the last day (Friday), then working backwards through each previous day. It wants you to make an assumption about who are the masterminds, and then gradually peel things back to reveal what's actually happening and why.
I'm not sure it works.There were a couple of times in the middle of the movie where I tuned out because it was setting up something where we already know how it ends. We know that guy is gonna die in that motel room, because we already saw his dead body in the motel room earlier in the movie. Sometimes the actors and the dialogue are interesting enough to keep me paying attention, and sometimes they aren't. Rob Corddry and Ron Livingston's FBI agents are funny sometimes, and just too stupid other times.
That said, I only had things half figured out within the first 20 minutes, and I didn't piece together the other half until probably the last 20 minutes. The nice thing was, that final piece helped to explain an issue I was having with how Benjamin Walker was playing the sheriff, Zeke Sikes. It was an "Oh, that's why he acts that way," moment. So that was a nice touch.
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