10 Totally Inept Movie Criminals

9. Hank & Andy - Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead Sidney Lumet's underappreciated modern crime masterpiece thrives on the mantra that everything that can go wrong will go wrong, as two hard-up brothers, Andy (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and Hank (Ethan Hawke) conspire to rob their own parents' jewelry store, which ends with one of their accomplices shooting their mother and putting her in a coma, which she dies of a week later. Their father, Charles (Albert Finney), decides to try and find the perpetrators, and, yeah...you can see where this is going. After a long and messy ordeal, Andy ends up wounded by an assailant, while Hank flees the scene and is never seen again. At hospital, Charles visits his son, and now aware that he is the one who caused his wife and Andy's mother to die, Charles smothers his own son with a pillow before leaving the hospital. Talk about a mess, but what a joy this film is to watch.
 
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