Rotten
It is at most a middling effort.
Bill Muller, Arizona Republic
The Hard Word
In a word, they're gone
2002 · 1h 42m · R
Action, Comedy, Crime
Directed by
Scott Roberts
Free account saves your watchlist and ratings.
The Hard Word
Overview
Three fraternal bank robbers, languishing in jail, discover a profitable (if not dodgy) way to spend their time. Crime can most certainly pay, if you "know wot I mean?" However when sex and greed rear-up between the good crims and the bad cops, the consequences are both bizarre and fatal.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
38%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The movie-jaded will dismiss The Hard Word as just another slick heist flick with a band of burglar buddies. Too bad for their cynical souls. They'll be missing a grand (theft) time.
Michael Booth, Denver Post
Fresh
Roberts stuffs the film with clever twists that keep us one step behind the plot, which is where you want to be in a heist picture.
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
Fresh
Just when you think you've got it all figured out, there's another disorienting jolt.
Tom Maurstad, Dallas Morning News
Fresh
'Amiable' is an odd way to describe a crime drama that contains wall-spattering amounts of bloodshed, but it fits The Hard Word.
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
More films
The Art of the Steal (2013)
Comedy · Crime · R
Crunch Calhoun, a third-rate motorcycle daredevil and part-time art thief, teams up with his snaky brother to steal one of the most valuable books in the world. But it's not just about the book for Crunch — he's keen to rewrite some chapters of his own past as well.
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Director
- Jonathan Sobol
- Cast
- Kurt Russell, Matt Dillon, Jay Baruchel
IMDb
6.3
Rotten Tomatoes
46%
Metacritic
53
2 Guns (2013)
Action · Comedy · Crime · R
A DEA agent and an undercover Naval Intelligence officer who have been tasked with investigating one another find they have been set up by the mob -- the very organization the two men believe they have been stealing money from.
- Runtime
- 1h 49m
- Director
- Baltasar Kormákur
- Cast
- Denzel Washington, Mark Wahlberg, Paula Patton
IMDb
6.7
Rotten Tomatoes
64%
Metacritic
55
Dragged Across Concrete (2019)
Action · Crime · Thriller · R
Two policemen, one an old-timer, the other his volatile younger partner, find themselves suspended when a video of their strong-arm tactics becomes the media's cause du jour. Low on cash and with no other options, these two embittered soldiers descend into the criminal underworld to gain their just due, but instead find far more than t...
- Runtime
- 2h 39m
- Director
- S. Craig Zahler
- Cast
- Mel Gibson, Vince Vaughn, Tory Kittles
IMDb
6.9
Rotten Tomatoes
76%
Metacritic
60
Avengement (2019)
Action · Crime · Thriller · Not Rated
While on a prison furlough, a lowly criminal evades his guards and returns to his old stomping ground to take revenge on the people who turned him into a cold blooded killer.
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Cast
- Scott Adkins, Craig Fairbrass, Thomas Turgoose
IMDb
6.6
Rotten Tomatoes
89%
Metacritic
63
Sleepless (2017)
Action · Crime · Thriller · R
Undercover Las Vegas police officer Vincent Downs, who has a lot of enemies, is caught in a high stakes web of corrupt cops and the mob-controlled casino underground. When a heist goes wrong, a crew of homicidal gangsters kidnap Downs’ teenage son T. In one sleepless night, Downs will have to rescue his son, evade an internal affairs i...
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Director
- Baran bo Odar
- Cast
- Jamie Foxx, Michelle Monaghan, Dermot Mulroney
IMDb
5.6
Rotten Tomatoes
25%
Metacritic
34
The Four Robinsons (1939)
Comedy · N/A
Four friends pretend a cruise to escape their wives and go clubbing, but they are forced to go through face-saving shipwreck, becoming castaways.
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- Director
- Eduardo García Maroto
- Cast
- Antonio Vico, Mary Santpere, Fernando Rey
IMDb
5.8
La mantilla de Beatriz (1946)
Drama · Romance · N/A
In XVII century Portugal two friends change identities so one of them can escape an unwanted marriage to Beatriz.
- Runtime
- 1h 27m
- Director
- Eduardo García Maroto
- Cast
- Virgílio Teixeira, Margarita Andrey, María Isbert
Comments
Talk about the film with other members