A 1970s Classic, Onstage and Underbaked
But the comic bits and the raucous sound design, which includes deafening helicopter propellers and blaring ’70s pop hits, belong to a more cartoonish entertainment. While Bernthal is chewing scenery, Moss-Bachrach appears in an altogether different play, delivering a nicely restrained performance of a terse, repressed man. The overly articulate arguments outside the bank between Detective Fucco (John Ortiz) and the F.B.I. agent (Spencer Garrett) about the state of the city feel shoehorned in.
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