This was an incredibly boring and unoriginal story about a very ordinary and average criminal. The only thing 'unique' about him was that he liked to run, but this added nothing to his story or to his bank robbing abilities that any reasonably in-shape human being could do. The whole time i was watching i was waiting to see how his running abilities would play a part in his criminal activities, but it never happened.
nice trolling attempt.
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You don't see things as they are, you see things as we are.
Actually, I think the OP has a point here.
This is a film that doesn't quite know what it wants to be. At times, it reminded me of "Drive": A protagonist with no backstory who only defines himself through his job/hobby; very little dialogue, the focus on rituals, a love interest who never succeeds to get close to the protagonist; an existentialist character study with violence thrown in.
But "The Robber" isn't as cool, as visually stunning, as gripping as "Drive". Even when we accept that we'll never get the answer why the protagonist is so obsessed abouting running and robbing, there isn't much left to hold our attention.
During the last third of the film, I thought I was watching some made-for-TV-thriller.
If the director makes it so difficult for the audience to care for a character, there needs to be something else in the film to make the audience's investment in it worthwhile. In that, "The Robber" fails miserably.
I feel the same way. I invested some time in this character and learned nothing about him other than he liked to run and rob banks and he didn't like prison (even though he's got a pretty nice looking cell with a treadmill). I felt no connection with him so if he gets caught or if he gets killed mattered very little to me (or anyone else). And the last 25 minutes were excruciatingly dull as we get to see him hide and run and drive and hide and run and drive...
shareWell, while I agree that there was not much backstory, his running abilities do come into play. He's able to run quite fast and for long periods of time. (For example, the footchase or the forest search) It's just not a big "here is where it comes into play" moment.
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If the main guy told you his backstory would you believe it? Or would it even plausible that he would give an honest one?
And if the director wanted to show it, the backstory, the reason why, there's only so much time you have in a film, you'd have to reduce to a couple incidents, which would be absurd, people aren't that simple.
Only so much time in a film? Geez, this movie was 100+ minutes of mostly dull monotony. They could have easily made space for some of the backstory.
here is what the director himself says on the character and his story:
http://www.fandor.com/blog/the-uncertainty-principle/
I always say, "If the vast majority of viewers don't understand your movie, and you need to explain it in extra DVD features or in interviews, then it is a terrible movie." This is differently true of "the Robber".
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