Theyre victims of predatory banks, unfeeling hospitals, and children too busy to keep in touch.
It all looks so easy.
Joe thinks, Why not?
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Its more about the bedrock friendship between three lonely old men.
Its a character movie, not an action movie.
And were always laughing with the characters, not at them and how old they are.
In the new version, Joe, Willie, and Albert watchThe Bacheloretteand get really invested the outcome.
They smoke pot with a gangster and get the munchies.
They attempt a practice heist on a supermarket and get away on a motorized old-folks scooter.
Ann-Margret even pops up as a horny, hot-to-trot grandma to lob lusty innuendos at Arkin.
I kept waiting for someone to make a joke about the size of his prostate.
Thankfully, it never came.C
