Trying to find your niche as a movie star isn’t easy. Take Glen Powell, for instance, who possesses the sort of matinee idol good looks and charisma that only great genes can provide. Powell has enjoyed great success with continuations of hit franchises, like Top Gun: Maverick and Twisters. And like his not dissimilar predecessor Matthew McConaughey, he’s perfect for romantic comedies, as Anyone but You proved. But he’s also clearly ambitious enough to want to stretch himself. Richard Linklater’s Hit Man, which he also co-wrote, worked beautifully, but that was primarily a streaming release. And when Powell attempted to get into macho leading man mode in the big-budget sci-fi actioner The Running Man, he stumbled badly.
You have to give him credit for again trying something different with John Patton Ford’s How to Make a Killing, loosely inspired by the classic 1949 British comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets.
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