(Rated PG-13,123 mins) Joe Blake (Bruce Willis) and Terry Collins (Billy Bob Thornton) are bank robbers; fugitives, hoping a final string of scores will finance their South-of-the-Border retirement dream. Somewhere along the way they hook up with Kate Wheeler (Cate Blanchett) an ordinary housewife sick of her disappointing life — who happens to run into Terry with her car. Things go from simple to complicated. Joining the spree they become a three ring circus stealing hearts as well as vaults – think “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” meet a comical “Bonnie and Clyde” and you have a Barry(Rain Man, Bugsy, Wag The Dog)Levinson directed, well-thought-out caper of personalities. Willis returns to his suave “Moonlighting” roots though his character is sloppy, Thornton’s is tidy and Blanchett makes for a love triangle that heats up the heists. It’s been said “an engaging pair with a savoir-flair” that would be (Blanchett).
