The Last Movie You Watched (no spoilers)

It's a tv show, not a movie and it's GHEYYYY

1. Their money situation.
2. Pines character practically inviting death/confrontation (at the end). Not a big jump or even a truly meaningful one in my opinion.

The movie tells us that Pines character was the good ole boy and his brother was the criminal. Throughout the movie, his brother(Foster) always acts like the cliche of a criminal (i.e. being rude, arrogant, overly-spontaneous or impulsive, etc). We see this manifest throughout the movie. Pine is apologizing to everyone, Foster is hitting them, being rude, and even decides to rob a bank by himself (impulsive). Sure he may be doing it all for his brother, but he is by and far handling most circumstances irresponsibly (cliche for the criminal type). Same for Pine always apologizing, being friendly with people, reigning in his brother at times... (cliche for the good ole boy).

It ends with them splitting up looking at each other before hand and understanding that it would likely be the last time they ever saw each other, this is on clear display by their acting/facial expressions, not even in question. Not to mention the foreshadowing of this being done by Pine catching/watching Foster load the magazines for the rifles he takes along on the 'last few heists' even though they were never needed in any of the prior heists.

Pine goes and secures his trust for his kids, brother dies in a shoot out with police/rangers where the biggest surprise of the movie occurred in the rather instant death of Bridges partner, but that was foreshadowed as well through his partners statement about 'hope I make it to retirement'. Then Bridges and Pine have a little moment at the very end where they basically tell each other that they "know" and that they may need to have it out for each other... which we never see happen.

I am sorry, there was no real growth of the characters. The story, while valiant in its own way, was nothing special nor complex. If anything, I am a little insulted that the police/rangers KNOW that one of the robbers got away and apparently for an unknown reason the blood from Pines character is never tested. Seems pretty open and shut to me... the dude was SHOT in the bank/bank parking lot... either way it wasn't while in the car because the locals stopped shooting by the time they got in the car. Plus their would be blood in the truck. The truck did explode, (which also didn't make sense, explosion was way too large for why it exploded, but I'll forgive that for it being a movie) which could make it seem as though the blood evidence would not be usable, but the point is that there appears to be no forensic effort whatsoever. It is a movie... lie to me, don't treat me like I'm stupid.

The movie says take it or leave it, which I am fine with... but there was little to no character development.

then his partner dies

Nonetheless, I think showing or having a real backstory to go along with Pines "she died" statements would have been better. Had we known how the bank did it, particularly if it was deeply dependent on their situation and eventual outcome. Fosters character talks VERY briefly about how he shot dad and that mom never liked him... these are great avenues to use to show how a character grow or change. The movie allows us to assume that the environment that existed between Foster and the dad/mom could be what drove him to crime (hell, HE SHOT AND KILLED THE DAD), but this is never shown and in my opinion therefore falls flat. Pine is the good one, but we never see him care for his mom, see his devotion, see how the banks greed essentially altered his and her condition which led to this, etc...

As for Bridges character... his character is a monotone, old school veteran ranger stereotype and he actually has the perfect moment for character development as we witness the interactions between him and his partner and the blatant foreshadowing that eventually leads to his very sudden and rather unexpected death. But after that scene, Bridges is the same as we was before, only retired.

I understand time passed, but outside of wanting to avenge his partner, his partner dying appeared to have no real impact on his character.