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Movie Review: "Going In Style" is OK . . . But Michael Caine is Great

Starring Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Alan Arkin, Ann-Margaret, Matt Dillon, John Ortiz, Peter Serafinowicz,   Joey King and Christopher Lloyd Based on the story by Edward Cannon Screenplay by Theodore Melfi Directed by Zach Braff   Out of Four Reviewed by Patrick and Paul Gibbs L ast decade, we had widely successful remakes of Ocean's 11 and The Italian Job. The heist picture was back in, at least if you had a cast made up of a who's who of hot young stars. It is probably for this last reason alone that it took this long for Hollywood to look toward Martin Brest's 1979 caper classic Going In Style, which featured George Burns, Art Carney and theatre legend Lee Strassberg. But it had to be mined eventually, and as is usually the case with anything, if you're going to do something, you might as well do it with Morgan Freeman. The premise here is pretty straight forward, centering on three men in their late '70's: Joe (Michael Caine) who is abo...