"Hawk," a putatively comic caper movie that doesn't come within hailing distance of being funny or exciting, has been a pet project of the actor's for years.
Later, when Qiao goes in search of Bin, the film becomes a funny, feminist revenge caper.
The Russian spy caper was funny, but how do we know it failed?
Having James Franco arbitrarily show up in drag isn't funny, especially as a caper to an otherwise amusing musical number.
Then there is the story -- a wild and funny plot involving a crime caper, a chase, a seduction and more.
Brutal ironies dog Mr Biswas every step of the way on life's journey, the unfairness mounts intolerably; and yet it is a funny book, too, full of jagged capers, lively malice, clever talk.
Publishers Weekly: "Wildly funny but deadly serious, Beatty's caper is populated by outrageous caricatures, and its damning social critique carries the day".
Expect a bonkers superhero caper with an absurd plot filled with funny one-liners, the dastardly evil Lord Black and a faithful robotic manservant called Canterbury.
Winnie is a sublime comic creation, and although she has been played by many fine actresses (Peggy Ashcroft, Madeleine Renaud...among them), Linehan is the first funny woman to match a comedienne's grief-struck capering with Beckett's own.
Though known best to Americans for his work on the deadly serious "Dark Materials" books, Philip Pullman taps into his funny side with the wholly lighthearted "Two Crafty Criminals!," a set of capers previously published in Britain in 1994 and '95 but appearing here for the first time.
So there is politics underlying every aspect of this funny, warm-hearted, deftly plotted film, and we fervently wish for the caper planned by this endearing quartet to succeed.
