I n case you were somehow blissfully unaware, America is in a very dark place and Americans are not very happy about it. Last week’s midterms saw a historic blue wave propelled by the high cost of living and the low trust in those making decisions, but restoring any small shred of faith in the system and any vague semblance of financial equity is still unlikely to come anytime soon.

It’s therefore theoretically ideal timing for films that provide some sort of rousing David v Goliath catharsis, a win on-screen when one feels entirely out of reach in real life. But like Paul Greengrass’s muddy and muddled peasant revolt drama The Uprising which crashed and burned in September, David Leitch’s How to Rob a Bank can’t quite find a way to capture a moment that should be easy to capture.…