An interesting idea gone kaput in the implementation. The basic premise is nothing new - that people end up doing crazy things when bitten by the love bug. As a James Hadley Chase novel, this could still have been great stuff. Two thieves, having stolen a lot of money from a third thief, are running away; they seek shelter with a fourth thief. The thief is missing, but his wife gives them shelter. Then the money goes missing ; then the wife comes up with a foolproof scheme to earn some fast money. The two thieves fall for the girl, and hence for the scheme. However, the golden rules of James Hadley Chase say: there is never any fast money, no scheme is foolproof, and women are dangerous. This is classic stuff. The only thing you need to manage well is to make the characters and the milieu colourful, funny and crazy enough; and yet there has to be an internal logic to who they are and why they behave the way they do (which is supposed to be love in this case). The film fails to deliver on these very premises. Some jokes are good, but the character development just isn't there. What a waste of an interesting idea!
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