"The Out-Laws: A Mixed Bag of Laughs and Crime"
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"The Out-Laws" is a derivative and desperate comedy that fails to live up to its potential. The film follows a bank manager, Owen Browning (Adam DeVine), who unwittingly gets involved with his fiancee's bank-robbing parents (Pierce Brosnan and Ellen Barkin). The story quickly loses steam halfway through, offering repetitive retreads of earlier events. The talented cast is wasted on a sloppy and improv-heavy script, resulting in a quarter-assed film that falls short of its slapstick comedy aspirations. Overall, "The Out-Laws" is best skipped in favor of better films in the genre.
- The Out-Laws movie review & film summary (2023) Roger Ebert
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