The Brink’s Job

This is described as a comedy. Peter Falk plays the main, central role. Heck, Roger Ebert talks about the warm human comedy. I barely cracked a smile through the whole thing (there are a handful of moments later, though). That’s not to say that the film is some sort of unmitigated disaster, just that there’s this apparently separation between tone and what seems to have been the intent where the comedy should be. The film feels sedate where it should feel more lively, like it took the templa...