“The Last Days Of American Crime” (*1/2 out of four) was a criminally overlong and incoherent jumble of a futuristic thriller set in a futuristic Metropolis in which the U.S. government is about to send a signal making it impossible for anyone to commit unlawful acts; before this takes hold, a crime czar (Michael Pitt) recruits a master bank robber (Edgar Ramirez) to rob a bank but a lone rogue cop (Sharlto Copley) tries to intervene and at the same time save civilization. Some interesting ideas about criminal justice and governmental control are completely overshadowed by film’s overlength, overplotting, and overall unpleasantness. Flashily directed by Olivier Megaton as usual but it’s all for nothing.

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