A quirky blend of buddy comedy, heist film and serious drama,
Robot & Frank gives the criminally underused Frank Langella undisputed top billing in a worthwhile project for perhaps the first time ever as a retired burglar whose son decides he needs help and thus acquires a robot servant to set him routines. Frank is resistant at first until cottoning onto the potential of the helper to allow him to carry out a few last jobs.
The setting is the near future, but it would be a stretch to call this sci-fi, and neither the gentle comic aspects or the bumbling crime angle quite characterise the whole either. What unexpectedly emerges, instead, is a rather poignant study of ageing as Frank gradually starts to give in to dementia.
7/10
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