It must be because of the concentrated explosion of Hollywood blockbusters in July, which led to a rather dismal box office in North America in August.
On August 18, two new films "The Killer's Bodyguard" and "Thief League" were released, both of which had good reputations, but unfortunately the box office performance was lower than expected, especially "Thief League", which hit the street as soon as it was released.
The director of League of Thieves is Steven Soderbergh. His representative works include the trilogy of "Hidden Sky and Over the Sea", "Never Compromise", "Drug Network", etc., and he is a powerful director with quality assurance as soon as he makes a film, and has won the Oscar for best director.
In recent years, he has been busy directing the American drama "Nickelodeon Hospital", has not directed a film for 4 years, and finally brought a new work this year.
This new film has a good reputation, a Rotten Tomatoes freshness of 93%, a particularly high media praise rate, and the score of the imdb platform is not low, 7.5 points, such a reputation, obviously a good film.
It was a complete failure in terms of box office performance, and only won $8.05 million in the first weekend of release, ranking third in the weekend box office list.
League of Thieves is a crazy comedy crime film that brings together a wave of tough guy actors and a wave of high-value actresses: Chanin Tatum, Daniel Craig, Adam Dreifer, Catherine Haiger, Lily Kearf, Catherine Waterston, and so on.
The story revolves around two ambitious Di Si brothers. Dicks brother (played by Chanin Tatum), who was once a sports star, unfortunately retired from a knee injury and had a rather depressed life.
The worst thing is that he worked on the highway and was fired for an inexplicable reason.
Dick's younger brother (played by Adam Dreifer), originally a brave soldier who experienced the Iraq War, lost an arm, and returned to his hometown to work as a bartender in a bartender.
The dismissed brother came to his brother's bar to drink, saw that his brother was not happy, and because he was missing an arm, he was teased, as soon as he saw this situation, he immediately beat up these impolite people, but because he was outnumbered, he was beaten miserably.
Brother Di Si, who lost his job, pondered for a long time, in order to support his family, he finally planned to do a big ticket, and he could not live like this for a lifetime, so he called his brother to do it together.
Their plan was to go to the racing scene to steal the vault, but to complete this great plan, the two brothers alone would certainly not have enough manpower, and they would have to recruit soldiers.
In their plans, an explosives expert is needed, and all they can think of is Joe Bon (starring Daniel Craig) who is in prison.
In order for this great plan to work smoothly, they had to think of a thoughtful way to get the explosives expert out of prison.
A lively and interesting rescue operation unfolds, followed by a tense and exciting theft plan, the story plot is compact, the atmosphere is witty and relaxed, and the viewing process is cool to fly, so that fans can feel the charm of "Eleven Arhats" again.
The plot of the movie "League of Thieves" slowly unfolds at the beginning, and in the second half begins to become crazy, reversing one after another, whether it is the characters in the film or the audience are played by the director, both relaxed and fun, and do not forget to think about what is black and what, it is a black comedy film that performs well.
The best part is the collaboration of the theft team in the film, a group of non-professional theft teams that bring dense laughter and are hilarious from beginning to end. Interesting plot with constant surprises.
In terms of performance, "007" Daniel Craig presented the funniest movie, changing the previous role positioning, and the tough guy was unbridled and funny in the film, completely subverting the performance.
From the perspective of word of mouth, "Thief League" has a higher audience praise rate than "The Killer's Bodyguard" in the same period, but unfortunately, it is still inferior to Deadpool and S.H.I.E.L.D.'s "The Killer's Bodyguard", and the box office is crushed and it suffers Waterloo. However, as a rare black comedy, this film must of course be included in this year's must-see list.