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Stab me in the Liver! The Maiden Heist

So disinterested have I been in Hollywood movies that I kept our last NetFlix video for 9 monthes, and just returned it unwatched. At $9.95/mo subscription fee, $80 down the drain.  My quandry was, do I cancel Net Flix, or start using it ? Actually, I did use it during that period.  Instant views (which are restricted to older films, television, and anything starring Barbra Streisand).  MoSup does watch cable movies while I'm perusing the Hitler Channels, so I selected what appearded to be a can't miss film; one given 4.5 stars by my NetFlix  personal shopper (which btw is almost always right),   The Maiden Heist. Christopher Walken Morgan Freeman William H Macy Wow.  Was this the Academy Award winning film for 2009?   I didn't know.  With that cast it had to have at least been nominated, right?   I can't think of a film any of those three have appeared in that I haven't enjoyed.   You know where this is going.  This movie is the film version of the Washington Redskins.  A team owned by a guy with more money than brains,  who stocks it with every Pro Bowl player he can get his hands on, and loses.  Spectacularly.  Consistently. Loses. That was this movie. The premise: three museum security guards, each of whom has developed an unnatural love (way unnatural) for a piece of art, that a villainous new curator is about to send to Denmark, decide to steal them.   Good premise.  However, aside from being agonizingly slow-paced,  it stinks.   How bad was it?  About 45 minutes into this 90 minute opus, I started fast-forwarding.  Mo Sup thanked me.  I don't know who to blame for this disaster;  the screenwriters, or the director?   Maybe TUA at SondraK knows, she being my goto movie expert.  As you can see, I gave it on IMDB.  It's a fair rating. The silver lining?  One of the previewed movies on this disc was HACHI, which MoSup suggested fors our next go. Oakley Doakely.   ”