The Last Job (2021)

Age is just a number… until your number is up in action-packed movie The Last Job (known as Crime Story in various countries).

Richard Dreyfuss’s character Ben Meyers was a main man in the mobster underworld when he was younger, and despite being an old toppie who’s no longer in the game, he’s still feared and spoken of with respect. But when a gang of thugs break into his home, steal cash and beat up his dementia-suffering wife Nan (Megan McFarland), Ben jumps back into action!

It’s open season on the perpetrators as Ben watches CCTV security cam footage of them beating his wife. “To heck with retirement, that’s for dead people!” he says. Ben isn’t a spring chicken and he’s got terminal cancer, which makes him more dangerous than ever because he’s got nothing to lose.

The action is intense and the mind games are a proper thrill ride. The cast have other big names like Mira Sorvino as Ben’s detective daughter, but it’s nice-guy Richard who makes this worth watching purely because he’s a really mean old chop. The writing won’t win an Oscar, but when you’ve got skop, skiet and donner in abundance, you’re set.