After escaping a Michigan prison, a charming career criminal assumes a new identity in Canada and goes on to rob a record 59 banks and jewelry stores while being hunted by a police task force. Based on the story of The Flying Bandit.Bandit opens with an on-screen graphic announcing the setting as London, 1988 before whimsically and emphatically clarifying the country in question is Canada, not the United Kingdom. Director Allan Ungar (with a script from Kraig Wenman, based on the novel detailing the real-life story, The Flying Bandit by Robert Knuckle) simultaneously introduces viewers to Gilbert Galvan Jr and his alias Robert Whiteman (Josh Duhamel) in action as an endearing, calm, master of disguise, serial bank robber. There’s the typical narration about how people aren’t born bad, as a rather comedic heist takes place where no one gets hurt, and we already have some small affection for this pacifist criminal.Bandit 2022 Movie Download.
After getting away clean, the film jumps back five or so years to when Gilbert was a nobody, escaping a Michigan prison (locked up for check fraud) and hightailing it to Canada to start anew and relatively untouchable. Gilbert genuinely wants an honest life, buying a homeless man’s ID for cheap (something that the stylistic graphics go out of their way to assure viewers happened), taking up a dead-end job selling ice cream, at least before the truck moves away. During that time, he also meets easy-going social worker Andrea (Elisha Cuthbert), who has one rule; don’t sell her bullshit.
With his heart in the right intention, Gilbert (still going by the name Robert Whiteman even around his newfound girlfriend) decides that the best way to provide in this relationship is to get back into the criminal activity sphere, upping his game by robbing small banks around Canada. There is practically no security compared to American banks, not to mention a relatively secure tactic of using regional flights to make a dash while carrying the money (such flights don