The strongest message of the new movie “How to Rob a Bank” is: “A group of very angry bank robbers who have been greatly wronged by the injustices of medical insurance and banks decides to not only rob many banks but also broadcast how to successfully rob a bank and take revenge all over social media”. Like Robin Hood, they use the money they steal to help people ruined by a greedy financial system that doesn’t work. One of the bank robbers, Ryan (Nicholas Hoult), lost his son because of the greed of a bank that approved Ryan a predatory loan that drained his savings, and his son eventually died of cancer. Another bank robber, Vince (Pete Davidson), is dying of lung cancer due to a medical condition he got while fighting in Afghanistan. The other bank robber is Emi, Ryan’s wife, who also lost her son to Cancer due to the inhumanity and greed of the bank.

The best idea in this story is teaching the world how to successfully rob a bank using social media (considering the group says the risk of getting caught is only 10%). Using social media to teach the world how to commit crimes is a new idea, never seen before, and it mostly works, with a payoff that was nothing we have not all seen before.

FBI agent West (John C. Riley), after years of being tricked by this gang of genius bank robbers, hires a software developer, Reagan (Zoe Kravitz), who invented a program that can essentially search the internet and identify where photographs and videos originated. Using this software, progress is made in tracking down where the bank robbers are, and it is the second good idea within a mostly average movie.

The Rotten Tomatoes give this movie a very low 33%, with my rating at 60%, mostly because of the message behind this story and a moderate pass.