{
  "id": 15286916,
  "title": "Stanley Tucci chews the scenery—and tries to steal the Mona Lisa—in Masterplan",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/17/stanley-tucci-chews-the-scenery-and-tries-to-steal-the-mona-lisa-in",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-17T14:00:08.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The A.V. Club",
    "slug": "the-a-v-club",
    "url": "https://www.avclub.com/masterplan-review-amazon-stanley-tucci-steals-mona-lisa"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Streaming has blurred the line between film and TV, making Prime Video's lighthearted heist movie Masterplan an interesting phenomenon. It feels like a pilot for a CBS series, but its real value lies in its French-Italian co-production starring beloved character actor Stanley Tucci. Tucci plays an elegant art thief, Roger Cavendish, who recruits two strangers (or are they?) for an impossible heist: stealing the Mona Lisa. The movie uses a Guy Ritchie-inspired mood board and a budget of 50 euros to create a colorful, if often empty, world.\n\nRoger enlists the help of Italian tech whiz Chiara and French explosives expert Jay, forming a makeshift family on their quest. The trio goes through various goofy scouting missions, adopting over-the-top disguises while bickering and bantering about their trust in each other. The movie follows Ocean's Eleven motions, complete with an evil buyer and an onscreen countdown to the heist. The story may be paper-thin, but the cast delivers earnest performances, making it feel like a real movie despite its absurdity.\n\nHowever, the actual heist lacks the budget to be particularly interesting or compelling, and the emotional investment in the characters feels less believable than the concept of stealing the Mona Lisa itself. The movie runs for 109 minutes but would have been far more entertaining at just 75. The third act offers the best and most original content, but it takes a long time to arrive. Despite its flaws, viewers who stick it out will at least have enjoyed their time pleasantly wasted.",
  "summary": "Stanley Tucci is the only selling point to Masterplan, an uninspired Ocean's Italy where he tries to steal the Mona Lisa.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}