Synopsis
Desperate to pay the bills and come through for their loved ones, three lifelong pals risk it all by embarking on a daring bid to knock off the very bank that absconded with their money.
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Cast
- Morgan FreemanWillie Davis
- Michael CaineJoe Harding
- Alan ArkinAlbert Garner
- Ann-MargretAnnie Santori
- John OrtizJesus
- Peter SerafinowiczMurphy
- Joey KingBrooklyn Harding
- Kenan ThompsonManager Keith Schonfeld
- Matt DillonArlen Hamer
- Christopher LloydMilton Kupchak
Recommendations
- 75
The Seattle Times
It’s an agreeably generic mishmash of every old-guys-pull-one-last-heist movie you’ve ever seen. - 67
Austin Chronicle
The geezer humor is just as funny here as it was in the original version of this film, which starred George Burns, Art Carney, and Lee Strasberg. I mean this as a compliment, although it’s, admittedly, a bit backhanded. - 63
Boston Globe
The 1979 film was both more casual and much darker about the realities and infirmities of old age, and it had one of George Burns’s better performances. It was a funny, touching experience, and it was a bitter pill. The new movie is a placebo, with Hallmark emotions put over by a cast of solid-gold professionals. - 63
Chicago Tribune
Going in Style stays in the safe zone every second, nervous about risking any audience discomfort, as opposed to Brest's quietly nervy ode to old age and its discontents. Times change. - 63
Washington Post
It’s the chemistry among these three fine actors that keeps Going in Style afloat, lifting it from the formulaic and forgettable — which, essentially, it is — and making it genuinely, if modestly, enjoyable. - 50
Movie Nation
It has about as much satiric bite as a Polident commercial, a reverse mortgage of a movie promising dividends its enfeebled script never delivers. - 50
The A.V. Club
It’s probably worth noting that the whippersnapper behind the camera is none other than one-time sitcom star and indie darling Zach Braff. Did he owe someone a favor, or is this his attempt to break into the studio system he scorned with his last feature, the gooey Kickstarted passion project "Wish I Was Here"? - 50
Arizona Republic
Going in Style will probably be a lot more enjoyable if you’ve never seen the original. It’s not that the remake is terrible. It’s cheerful and undemanding, and an appealing cast makes the time go by painlessly enough. But the 1979 film is poignant and layered.
