quick change

oh 80's movies, why must you be so bad?  actually, this one is saved by the always fantastic bill murray!  the movie starts with murray walking into a bank in his clown outfit on, pulls out a gun, and robs the place.  the robbery itself is the best part of the film, so i wont ruin for you how it goes down, but it is quite clever (it has been ripped off since, but this one was before all those, so it was quite original at the time).  needless to say, in order for there to be a movie, the robbers get away.  the rest of the film follows murray, davis, and quaid as they try to leave the city.  turns out, getting out of the bank was the easy part, but leaving new york seems nearly impossible!
i must share my major problem with this movie and so many others like it: why do characters give up on the solution when ever they face an individual problem?  along the way, they get in to a taxi, which just so happens to be driven by a crazy person, they ditch the taxi, but then for some reason never try to get another taxi.  its as if they decide that because they had a bad experience with one taxi that they can never try another taxi again.  really?  also, when they leave the bank they get lost in their car.  really?  i'm pretty sure that if they had taken six months to plan the heist that they would be pretty familiar with the area and wouldnt get totally lost just because the construction worker took down one sign.  in reality, they would have pulled off the heist, gotten on the highway with ease, and been in europe by nightfall.  granted, that doesnt make a good movie though, so they need to have some problems with easy solutions that they never use.  this isnt a bad movie, just badly written.  but even all that is forgotten when ever bill murray is on screen- this is definitely one of his sillier roles, and he does it very well.