In case you were wondering what was taking filmmakers so long to release a heist movie combining the classic bank robbery scenes with the current craze for cryptocurrency, “Cash Out” will help you to understand that. Travolta is hardly a newcomer with `Cash Out,’ as he has been around for decades. In tech-tinged movies like this one, the viewer is left wanting more behind the scenes of the making of the film and living out the experience, but Ives is more than happy to stock up on clichés that have worked for him in the past. There is one final hustle and the story of the protagonist bailing out is not something to be surprised all too often but this is also how Gallows Road might have been pitched to Mr Travolta.
The actor now seems to be little more than a washed-up slugger well past his prime, bringing his familiar name to the film ‘Cash Out,’ but devoid of all the struggles he had gone through in his past work. He plays the role of Mason Goddard, a character who is introduced along with his woman of interest Amelia Decker (Kristin Davis) at a fancy event with the intention of steeling expensive cars worth millions. This sense of blatant opulence however is well countered by the shoddy production quality which makes everything and everyone in the movie watch fake. It is however a fairly simple task one would expect, especially when you have Mason’s well-trained men at your back, but Lamia pulls a gun to herself and puts her true allegiance, the FBI’s, out to Mason. For a man who has never been in a heist, he certainly sees an awful lot of terrible heist movies.
He and his crew manage to escape capture by employing Plan B: driving into the water in the full gaze of their pursuers and wishing the policemen would end their search quickly, which they somehow do. Failure turns into additional heartbreak, for the leader of the sad but tough group has had enough of this world and has decided to retire. This doesn’t last long younger brother Shawn (Lukas Haas), who bears a lot of similarity to Fredo, has a very little task for him. Just when he thought he is out
Every scene that follows encompasses a dialogue that is supposedly ‘tired’ but has been used in better films before. Don’t worry they will be, since one of Mason’s underlings will shout as soon as the cops arrive, like Walters’ “this is our company” from heralding moments which makes viewers wonder why isn’t there a “Heat” in front of them. Some cliché remarks can be excused if they serve the purpose of creating interest in the extravagant sequences, but the initial action of robbing the bank is bland just like the majority of the events to follow in “Cash Out.”
As much of a mess, as this plan for a hypothetical heist is, it is still much more than the odd smoke that Mason is willing to overlook for an ex-girlfriend who slept around on him only because it is always her that has to be dragged into calm things down when emotionally charged trespasses turn into a hostage negotiation.
Asking if she has been working out sounds more like a compliment and not so demanding as asking for the peaceful release of his abductees, and our hero sees this opportunity. It is artificial I agree but it also brings about the only conversations that are different in the film as compared to all its many predecessors in the genre.
Inode on the other hand goes in for the heist with the attitude that he is not even meant to be there and therefore his hostages are his half-hearted potential guests whom he doesn’t have to force into submission with a pistol. Now that is something new considering how such scenes usually play out but it also draws attention to one of the film’s major flaws the apparent absence of tension. Just as Mason is momentarily pushing himself through a job that he would rather not do in hopes of recapturing his estranged wife rather than making money, the movie like itself also doesn’t seem to put much emphasis on making us care about any of this.
It is safe to say that the safe deposit box in question is not a pot of gold, rather it is definitely a nest of troubles and its contents and owner appear to be far too much hassle for an individual. The same goes for the very Cash Out in question for which the ratio of risk to reward does not make it worthwhile to be drawn back in.
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