Money Plane features Adam Copeland, Kelsey Grammer, Thomas Jane, and Denise Richards. Grammer and Jane are recognizable from Frasier and The Punisher, respectively. Copeland, however, remains, against all odds, The Rated R Superstar, The Ultimate Opportunist, The Master Manipulator, Edge—and while he doesn't embody those personas in this film, I’ll refer to his character as Edge anyway (I appreciate brevity). Edge is a professional thief. At the start of the movie, he and his team – Isabella (Katrina Norman), Trey (Patrick Lamont Jr.), and director/co-writer Andrew Lawrence – are stealing a Jackson Pollock valued at $40 million. The museum where the painting is supposedly located seems rather peculiar. Edge goes through security into a room where the artwork should be, but it’s not there; neither is Edge, at least not from the van where Trey is monitoring him. Apparently, someone hacked into Trey's computer so he saw a recording of an empty room instead of a live feed. This seems illogical. Why would they hack in a way that immediately alerts them to the intrusion? The explanation is that the writers needed the heroes to know they were being set up, and this was their solution. Edge was stealing the painting for Darius Emmanuel Grouch III (Grammer), as payment for a $40 million debt (assuming the thieves helped him out of generosity since the painting’s value matches his debt). Since Edge returns without the painting, Grouch offers him another job: “robbing a futuristic air casino filled with the world’s most dangerous criminals” — the titular money plane. We then see Edge examining the plane's blueprints with his team. I wonder where they obtained these plans? Later, Edge goes home to his wife Sarah (Richards) and their daughter—to whom he reads about Robin Hood, perhaps hoping she’ll view him as a hero rather than someone who avoids working—; in the middle of the night, while mentally reviewing what Grouch told him earlier, Edge hears noises downstairs. He investigates and finds Harry (Jane). Harry is Edge's best friend and his daughter’s godfather (the only surprise in the movie is that he doesn’t betray Edge), but if they are so close, why would he break in instead of knocking? After all, Harry isn’t there to create suspense; he’s providing exposition. It turns out Edge used to be a poker whiz until gambling losses mounted to his $40 million debt. How he still has a home and family is baffling, as is how he accumulated such a substantial debt without facing more severe consequences sooner. Anyway, Harry agrees to watch over Edge’s family while Edge handles the plane situation. To gain access to the plane, Edge pretends to be a criminal, Trey poses as Edge's “associate,” and Katrina conveniently gets hired as a flight attendant. The appeal of a flying casino is that it can gamble on anything in international airspace — even, as Grouch tells Edge, "a guy [expletive deleted] a lizard"—; you know you’re in trouble when the premise comes from a lesser Simpsons episode. The first game is an ordinary round of Texas Hold'em. Edge wins and leaves Trey to play in his place while he goes to take control of the cockpit, which he does easily without anyone noticing that the plane has been hijacked by an imposter. Meanwhile, Katrina hacks into the plane’s servers, and Trey participates in a game of Russian roulette—a strange addition for business; after all, a dead customer can't keep betting. Other wagers include Man vs. Cobra and Man vs. Piranhas. These events don’t take place on the plane; gamblers watch them remotely from an undisclosed location where laws presumably apply. This also raises questions about why the servers aren’t located elsewhere. To put it simply, Edge & Co. hack into the servers, transfer cryptocurrency to their devices, and donate it to charities (“redistribute the wealth,” Edge says, but he's not fooling anyone; stealing is stealing), then jump out of the plane. As for the Pollock painting, Grouch owned it all along; the whole thing was a scheme to get Edge to hijack the plane. But if Edge owed Grouch $40 million, that means Grouch had the upper hand. Instead of asking him to steal the painting and then manipulating him into robbing the plane, why not just tell him to do the job directly? And why is there cash on the plane in addition to cryptocurrency? The answer is obvious: to justify the title. Calling it The Crypto Plane would have been confusing. The biggest question is what Edge, Thomas Jane, and Denise Richards were doing in this movie. I mean, I know they’re in it for the money, but I honestly think the movie needed them more than they needed the movie. I admit I watched Money Plane just to see Edge; similarly, there must be people who'll watch it just for Jane or Richards—and you know what? Those viewers will be as disappointed as I was. Edge spends nearly half the film flying the plane without incident; Jane takes a break from watching Edge’s daughter to shoot some unnamed henchmen with a drone from an easy chair in Edge's home; and Edge could easily be a single dad—Richards doesn’t do much beyond being eye candy, though that appeal has faded. Grammer is the exception because, while he also does little besides lounging on his mansion’s terrace, he at least understands what kind of movie this is and knows how to enjoy overacting, which makes a difference.

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