![]() ![]() But most criminals slip up along the way and our anti-hero, no matter how skilled, will be no different. Whiteman never uses a loaded gun, he’s very polite, and disappears into thin air. The cat and mouse game that the cops and robbers play is very entertaining. Discovering who that person is, is something else. ![]() It takes quite a while to figure out that the bank robberies across the country might be by one person but eventually they do. When the robbery rate starts to increase, they begin to devise ways to follow the statistics when given most of the resources they need. Foremost among them is Tommy, long on Snydes’ radar but so far untouchable. But the police are underfunded and Snydes and Hoffman can’t muster the resources to track some of the crooks they already suspect. The Flying Bandit has not gone unnoticed by the police, particularly Detectives Snydes and Hoffman, an unlikely duo if ever there was one. For that down payment, Whiteman will not only pay him back a hefty sum but will also cut him in on future deals. He convinces Tommy to front him the money for the expenses that he incurs when he flies to distant cities. Tommy, the local crime kingpin, is the guy to help him put them into place and he strikes a deal. He returns home to Andrea with grandiose new plans. Although he hilariously neglects to bring a bag to stash his cash, he discovers his calling. Armed with that information, and a new disguise, he robs the bank. He dons a disguise and learns about the bank security from the manager himself. He is nothing if not ingenious, devising a way to rob a bank. Learning that Andrea is pregnant, he needs a quick fix of cash. Looking for a legit job, he finds that he is, once again, unemployable for anything but the most menial work. ![]() Temporarily abandoning his girlfriend, he takes a bus as far away as possible - Vancouver. Now with a girlfriend, no job, and no prospects, Whiteman discovers that the Feds are actually still looking for a two-bit crook like him. What does go right is his meet cute of his future wife, Andrea, who manages the homeless shelter where he has been staying. Attempting to go straight by selling popsicles out of a bicycle push cart doesn’t go as planned when he’s almost immediately laid off. Always resourceful, he buys an ID off a homeless guy and presto change-o, Gilbert Galvan is now Robert Whiteman. There’s a recession and finding work is nigh unto impossible, made even more difficult with a lack of ID (he’s a marginally wanted escapee on the other side of the border). Josh Duhamel as Galvan aka Whitman and Elisha Cuthbert as Andrea in “Bandit.” Photo courtesy of Quiver Distribution and RedBox Entertainment. Yes, he just runs off, climbing chain link fences and hitching a ride to Canada, a very short hop and jump from Detroit. Prison doesn’t agree with him, not even a Club Fed, and he runs off. Galvan’s arrogance is soon to be his undoing.īut before that can happen, we are drawn back to the beginning of the saga in Detroit, Michigan where Galvan has been sentenced to a minimum security prison for check fraud. Detective Snydes has been on his trail for several years and is closing in. It’s 1988 in London, Ontario and there won’t be many more. But he needs just that last little adrenaline rush, so after leaving his disguise behind, he marches over to a pay phone and calls in several voice-disguised 911 calls that will further confuse the police. He’s a bank robber and he’s robbing a bank, something he does for a living. Like anything, it takes practice.” To the tune of “Raise a little Hell,” he strides purposefully into a bank, satchel in hand. In stunning opening credits, as our anti-hero unloads his gun, stubs out his ever present cigarette, and prepares his disguise, he states: “No one’s born bad. The true story of career criminal Gilbert Galvan belongs in “Ripley’s Believe It or Not.” It definitely comes under the category of “truth is stranger than fiction.”ĭirector Allan Ungar starts us out at the end.
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