
The film opens with four tuxedo clad men showing up at a penitentiary to meet a friend who has just been released after three years in prison and is going straight from the jail to marry his girlfriend. En route to the wedding, one of the men asks to stop by a bank to pick up some cash. As it turns out, he is a wanted bank robber who uses Shakespeare passages during his robberies and thus has become known as "Hamlet". Soon all five men are caught up in the bank and involved i... (Full plot summary below)
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The film opens with four tuxedo clad men showing up at a penitentiary to meet a friend who has just been released after three years in prison and is going straight from the jail to marry his girlfriend. En route to the wedding, one of the men asks to stop by a bank to pick up some cash. As it turns out, he is a wanted bank robber who uses Shakespeare passages during his robberies and thus has become known as "Hamlet". Soon all five men are caught up in the bank and involved in the robbery as they end up in a hostage situation. The hostage negotiator shows up who turns out to be Hamlet's father. As the men are all known to those being robbed, this quirky comedy takes a left turn as their hostages all work to support the men.
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| Reel Film ReviewsDavid NusairThe ending is a little too neat and tidy, but as far as straight-to-video talk-fests go, Best Men's worth a look. |
| VarietyDerek ElleyAt heart, Best Men is a modest picture that harks back in many ways to U.S. movies of the late ’60s and early ’70s in its unconventional attitudes and anti-establishment tone. Pacing never lingers, and, unlike in Guncrazy, there’s no narrative fat; at the same time, there isn’t much emotional residue either. In short, it’s simply a quality B movie. |
| The A.V. ClubNathan RabinAs a comedy, it's painfully unfunny, and as a drama, it's both silly and overcrowded with unnecessary characters and subplots. Still, Best Men has its moments. |
| EmpireJessica MellorThe ensemble acting is so strong the characters are likeable without being annoying, and aside from the odd corny line which serves as a reminder of the movie's stupidity, if taken at face value it becomes a fair enough yarn with bundles of energy. |
| User ReviewCedric RI'm giving this movie five stars. I found it more organic and entertaining than most "heist" films. First of all, it's a comedy, and the ending could have been ABSOLUTELY ridiculous, but it wasn't. It was very realistic, and well-done I thought. More engaging than SPEED, more funny than any of those dumb KNOCKED UP movies. Best Bromance EVER! I loved it. The movie poses the question of its own identity: comedy or tragedy, and it turns out to be a tragedy. In another film, everyone would have been fine in the end, but that's not what happened. It starts as a comedy, but the comedy dissolves as the situation gets more complicated. Shakespeare is a woderful reference since even his later comedies were considered tragi-comedies because they walked the line between the two. This film also does that. |
| User ReviewFallen_Angel LThis was a great movie. It made me want to read "Hamlet" afterwards. |
| User ReviewPrivate UGood cast, not so much the greatest movie on the planet. |
| User ReviewAvery MAnother one of my favorites. Sean Patrick Flannery is in such great films. |
| User ReviewCarolyn "Carrie" SThis was SUCH a good movie. I loved it. SOOO good. Such a strange plot. LOVED IT! |
| User Reviewstef zSean Patrick Flannery is awesome in this movie with the whole Hamlet poetry while robbing banks :D Two thumbs up for sure!! |