Hurricane Heist

I wasn't expecting much, but damn this is bad.

In the opening scene, the father of the two brothers who'll be two-thirds of the protagonists, gets killed by a water tower rolling over him after a hurricane topples it. Less than a minute later, as the house they're hiding in gets torn apart, one of the kids looks up and sees a skull in the swirling clouds. Like we're in the Brendan Fraser Mummy movies or something.

There's the constant string of surprise reveals, as yet another character turns out to be part of the crew pulling the heist. Not to mention the surprise alliance shifts even within that crew. There's how the two brothers can apparently use some football play call - Red Delta 22 - to communicate as widely disparate plans as, "We're going to use a flare gun to shoot out the mall skylight and suck the evil cops into the sky," and "you and me use these two semis to ram the guy driving the other semi."

The part where meteorologist brother climbs the cell tower in, and I quote '143 mph' winds, to attach a winch cable. Then, rather than just use the winch, the ATF agent tries to pull the tower down by going in reverse really fast. Then, she actually tries retracting the cable. Meanwhile, meteorologist boy is chucking hubcaps into the wind, trying to use it to Captain America a couple of the heist crew.

Admittedly, the last bit is the only part where Alex and I went, "oh shit," rather than groaning, or putting our faces in our hands.

Or the part where they're trying to drive the semis in the eye of the storm, but it's caught up enough that it rips the trailer away from one (then naturally drops it on top of the cab), and pulls the another up whole hog. Then like a minute later, the storm has dissipated entirely.

We picked this instead of Avengers: Endgame because it was already 1 am and I didn't feel like being up 3+ hours (also, I'm strangely unmotivated to actually watch Endgame), but I'm not sure it was a good tradeoff. The movie is 100 minutes long, and feels like twice that.