Entertainment

Flypaper

In this unremarkable ad dition to the already overcrowded heist genre, one unlucky bank gets hit twice. A sophisticated trio (Mekhi Phifer, John Ventimiglia, Matt Ryan) with high-tech safe-cracking equipment crosses paths with two dynamite-packing yokels (the pretty amusing team of Pruitt Taylor Vince and Tim Blake Nelson) code-named Peanut Butter and Jelly.

The groups join forces to take employees (Ashley Judd, Octavia Spencer, Jeffrey Tambor, Curtis Armstrong, Rob Huebel) hostage, along with a twitchy customer (Patrick Dempsey) whose obsessive-compulsive disorder becomes useful in a crisis.

Penned by the “Hangover” screenwriters, the aimless “Flypaper” starts off as a fast-talking action romp but morphs into a whodunit when folks start turning up dead, “Clue”- style. Ryan’s hothead Brit character, who seems to have wandered over from a Guy Ritchie set, could take the plot someplace darker. But he doesn’t. And given the circumstances, you’d think director Rob Minkoff might venture a comment on the economy — but no.

In the end, there’s just a roomful of decent character actors in search of a point. For them, the titular “Flypaper” may have simply been a paycheck.