Wow, the bottom of the barrel for this film is Casey Affleck and Tom Waits, that's the cinematic equivalent of Washington's cabinet where the weakest among them was John Jay. And even here, Casey probably (while playing himself) played the absolute best depiction of himself that he's ever done. He pulls off the burned out, fed up, hates his job detective i a way that is both totally entertaining and totally believable.
Danny Glover is the only down side and, honestly it's not because he didn't do a good job, he was lovable, believable, realistic, and maddeningly under-utilized. He leaves you wanting to see more, and unfortunately you never get it.
But, of course, the best of the best are Robert Redford and Sissy Spacek who manage to take a film about elderly bank robbers and turn it into a charming love story.
It all comes together in a slow burn of a film, punctuated by a pretty hysterical Tom Waits story, that seems to get by exclusively on the charm and characters that are so well developed and so brilliantly acted that you lose track of time.