FINAL HEIST is a new TUBI Original thriller with just an hour and 23 minutes of runtime not including commercials. It’s short, which is in its favor because I can’t imagine what other unnecessary details would’ve been tacked onto this plot if it were any longer.
It’s a MarVista production, which means fun but don’t expect too much logic. This movie is exactly that! It entertains sometimes unintentionally but only through the overall experience and cast.
The title refers to something different than what you’d assume from the beginning. Final Heist starts off with a classic bank robbery (or rather, the robbery happens via the armored vehicle transporting cash from the bank).
Willa (Camila Banus) has a healthy daughter who one day suddenly collapses. She has heart condition and needs tissue from a matching donor. They test Willa’s blood for a match but there isn’t one. Then they find out her father whom she said was dead is not only still alive, but also serving time in prison.
So naturally, in a movie like Final Heist, they have to break into maximum security prison to get tissue from the girl’s father. In other words, Willa and her former robbery gang need to break into the prison, then escape with the tissue.
If you watched Netflix’s wonderful series Boy Swallows Universe you may have seen that whole breaking into a prison thing recently. And if you haven’t then you really should. That Australian series is amazing!
Anyway, it’s not all that different in Final Heist yet clumsier. As they need to do surgery on an inmate and bring tissue back to an actual hospital. As if you can just bring your own donor organs into a hospital.
Ted Campbell directed Final Heist, which he co-wrote with Richard Pierce. I will give this thriller credit for having mostly women be the ones in charge of the heist. It’s something that sets it apart from many other heist movies and gives a different tone. More heart and humor, less guns and violence.
But unfortunately, it is also very heavy-handed with its portrayal of criminals as good people and anyone involved with law enforcement or prison guarding as either stupid, gullible or downright sadistic. Also, the screenplay surprises not. Even when you hope what you expect is wrong, rest assured it will happen. Sadly!
Look, this isn’t a good movie in terms of story. However, there is enough happening and some performances ( as well as a few subpar ) in Final Heist to check it out.
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