The Review: American Animals

American Animals 9/10

There will be some spoilers in this review. This movie was awesome! B&Hasked if I had seen this movie called American Animals and I had kinda heard the title but knew nothing about it or who was in it. I need to point out how well this movie was edited and how good the soundtrack was before I forget. The transitions scenes were amazing and were not done in a distracting way or like “Look at how cool this is!” I enjoyed the fuck out of this movie and wish more people, including me, had seen it sooner. You can rent it online but I wish that it had, I don't know, better marketing or something. This stars Evan Peters as Warren Lipka, Barry Keoghan as Spencer Reinhard, Blake Jenner as Chas Allen, and Jared Abrahamson as Eric Borsuk. This are all real people by the way which is awesome.

I would say that the closest movie I could compare this to was Bernie starring Jack Black. They go back and forth between showing the actors/movie and the real people they portrayed. There are scenes done twice and mixed with different perspectives on what actually occurred and where. This is about a kid named Spencer that is bored with his life in Kentucky, wondering if this is all there is for him. He is a great artist by the way. Spencer feels like his life needs something to happen for him to be an actual great artist like those he admires. He ends up talking to Warren and they come up with a plan to rob the library. There is this book that is very rare and worth a ton of money. There realize that they need another person and then they need a driver. They have this four man crew to rob a library which sounds easy until you realize that these are four young men and none of them are criminals.

They come up with disguises to wear and a plan that should work if everything goes perfectly which of course it doesn't. None of the guys want to hurt the librarian if it comes to that. They dress up as old men and things go to shit when there are more people there than usual. They come back with another plan and shit goes from bad to worse. I really liked hearing from the original people that pulled this heist off and seeing how they feel about one another. This movie does not leave you hanging at all and was done perfectly. It had the perfect mixture of drama, comedy, and suspense. I love a good heist film and this for sure was that. Check this out as soon as you can.

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