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Band of Robbers

2015

Adventure / Comedy / Crime / Thriller

2
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 81% · 26 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 61% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.0/10 10 4644 4.6K

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Plot summary

A comedic thriller that re-imagines Mark Twain's iconic literary characters of "Huckleberry Finn" and "Tom Sawyer" as grown men in current day.

Director

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Adam Nee

Top cast

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Melissa Benoist as Becky Thatcher
Stephen Lang Photo
Stephen Lang as Injun Joe
Gabriel Bateman Photo
Gabriel Bateman as Young Huck Finn
Hannibal Buress Photo
Hannibal Buress as Ben Rogers
720p.BLU
878.09 MB
1280*536
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 35 min
Seeds 12

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Seth_Rogue_One 7 / 10

A different spin on Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain fans might be slightly disappointed by the portrayals of their favorite characters but it's best to see it as more as a modern day homage to the books than anything else.Also a heavy dose of crude humor, it's a comedy of errors first and formost more so than the epic adventures of the books it is inspired by. Set in present time our dear Huckleberry Finn is a ex con and Tom Sawyer is his childhood friend who ended up becoming a police officer, albeit for no noble reasons.Kyle Gallner is always good and he is definitely the best actor in this film and delivers a lowkey but very good performance as Huck, Adam Nee is entertaining as Tom but his character is pretty one dimensional... But so are most of the other characters.After seeing Stephen Lang being absolutely brilliant in 'DON'T BREATHE (2016)' I must say I was a little let down by his (too) mild performance in this one.But overall the performances are good enough.There were a couple times where I thought they should have wrote this or that differently in the script but overall the plot is also good enough.So yeah overall, no masterpiece but... good enough 6.5/10.
Reviewed by subxerogravity 6 / 10

Interesting take on Tom and Hunk as adults

This could have went so wrong. I'm thinking of when they did this in Hook and turn Peter Pan into an adult, but Band of Robbers works really well.The acting was superb. So was the writing. From the moment you see Huck Finn and Tom on the screen you got the feeling of two dudes who never out grew who they were as children and it was fantastic.Tom and Huck still looking for treasure and adventure and they seem not to care about who gets in there way.As a whole, the movie was a great expedience to watch. It was a quirky funny and a little dark.
Reviewed by reneeob 7 / 10

quirky, humorous, entertaining, slightly politically incorrect = gem

i saw it at MoA afternoon matinée wed the 20th. perfect setting for an enoyable day this movie was made with passion and tlc--clearly observable.love to feed the indy movie scene? no put intended. go see Band of Robbers. delightful spin on the old huck fin / tom sawyer story. two seasoned leads did a fantastic job: kyle gallner and adam nee (who was actually in an episode of SatC) who was also co writer and co director.i'm not usually a big fan of silly movies but i don't pass up mgg. ever. though his role was supporting, his character was hilarious and it was fun to see him play the opposite of reid. plus the short joggers and tank tops are not to miss.BaR was super cute and entertaining quite a few funny laugh out loud moments. if you need a light airy movie on a cold winter's too hot summer's day, i indeed recommend.
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