Release: Supercrooks

Supercrooks
Genre: Heist/Superhero
Director: Joe Cornish
Writer: Wesley Campbell
Producer: Edgar Wright
Based on the comic series
Cast: Zac Efron, Chloe Bennet, Billy Nighy, Christopher Meloni, Matt Lanter, Jamie Bell, Haley Joel Osment, Bill Skarsgard, Alex Pettyfer, Larry David, James Badge Dale



Budget: $50,000,000
Domestic Box Office: $59,690,384
Foreign Box Office: $38,888,891
Total Profit: $2,759,204

Reaction: Lately there have been some films that relied on the foreign box office to break even, but Supercrooks is definitely the opposite. The studio only made roughly $15 million of the foreign gross, so it needed every last penny domestically (where we get a higher percentage of the gross) to hit the black.

"All of the pieces were there to make Supercrooks an entertaining superhero heist film, but it just didn't work out in the end. The characters weren't particularly likable. That could have been forgiven if the heist elements were done really well, but that wasn't the case. And once again, that could have still worked if the superhero elements were done well enough. Basically, none of the crucial elements of the film were done successfully enough to make up for the short-comings of the other elements." - Dave Manning, Ridgefield Press

"Supercrooks doesn't bring much new to the superhero or heist genres outside of combining them. That said, Zac Efron was fairly solid in the lead role and Nighy was entertaining as The Bastard. The story moves along briskly and the filmmakers seemed to have fun with the world they built. There is nothing groundbreaking about Supercrooks, but I can think of a lot of worse ways to spend a couple of hours." - Gregory Fletcher, Los Angeles Times-Journal

"I really wanted to like this, however I can say I didn’t. Sure there was some fun parts, due mainly to the direction of Joe Cornish, but I just didn’t have as much fun as I should have. A Superhero heist film produced by Edgar Wright sounds like it should be ten times as fun as this was. No real backstory for the characters didn’t have me as invested as I should have been. The ending fight sequence, especially the illusion scene between The Bastard and Kasey was probably the best part of the film and what most will walk away remembering. However, I will walk away remembering the sloppiness of 80% of it." - Jharrel Romano, MovieMedia.com

Rated R for violence, language and sexual content