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In this tweener heist caper, three youths jack a paltry $250,000 from a high-tech bank, even though the impregnable vault that’s suspended a 150 feet in the air holds in excess of $25 million. The why — a father’s medical condition — doesn’t matter in Bart Freundlich’s Saturday-morning diversion. What does matter is the puppy-dog love triangle between Maddy (Kristen Stewart) and her two sidekicks. In order to get Gus (Max Thieriot) and Austin (Corbin Bleu) on board for the job, she’s got to profess her love for each one of them — secretly. The Mission Impossible–lite adventure takes a while to rise, and it doesn’t help that the dialogue (which could have borrowed a few more comic cues from Spy Kids) falls flat. As charismatic as Stewart is (think how good she was in The Panic Room), she rarely overcomes the material. At least there’s a slick getaway in souped-up go-karts, and James Le Gros garners a few laughs as an anal-retentive security guard. (92 minutes)
BY TOM MEEK
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