In a sedate Massachusetts suburb circa 1970, unemployed family man and amateur art thief J.B. Mooney sets out on his first heist. With the museum cased and accomplices recruited, he has an airtight plan. Or so he thinks.
Rated 3.3 / 5 from 2 logs on Katalog
There's something appealing and understated about this. It never goes the way you expect, situations go both better and worse than you anticipate, and characters are extremely believable. Perhaps the believability of the characters is to their detriment: they're all, like people in real life, just a little boring. Even Josh O'Connor as the lead, barely speaks and is altogether just a little boring. But maybe that's intentional. The entire movie is understated and unpredictable, with some explosive moments, a little like the jazz that is playing almost the entire film.
The Mastermind is precise and minimalistic yet far from boring, and nothing bothered me about it overall, but somehow no aspect impressed me personally either. Like a really good brunch, tasty while I’m having it but I’m not going to remember what I had if someone asks me about it in the evening.
