“How To Rob A Bank” seems like it should be way more exciting than it actually is. It should be a gripping drama about a guy named Jinx (Nick Stahl) who starts his day battling with his bank over withdrawal fees and accidentally finds himself caught up in a bank robbery and locked in a vault with a sexy tech expert (Erika Christensen). Instead, we get a film full of almost nothing but people making phone calls to each other, and although it only lasts for 81 minutes, it still somehow manages to feel as though it drags on forever. Terry Crews (“Everybody Hates Chris”) remains mostly stoic throughout the flick, with Gavin Rossdale – yes, that’s right: the dude who used to be in Bush but who’s now better known for being married to Gwen Stefani – offering a more than serviceable job as one of the robbers, even if it’s only because British accents almost always make dialogue sound better than it actually is. So how do you rob a bank? If every would-be bank robber had to watch this movie in order to discover the secret, then the number of thefts within our nation’s financial institutions surely would plummet.
