Stanley Tucci's Masterplan Heist Comedy Fails to Impress Stanley Tucci stars in Masterplan, a Prime Video heist comedy about stealing the Mona Lisa, but the film falls flat with an unfunny script and wasted talent. Stanley Tucci stars in the new Prime Video heist comedy Masterplan, which began streaming in 2026. The film follows Roger, a legendary English thief with a plummy voice, who plots to steal the Mona Lisa from the Louvre. He recruits two estranged children he has never introduced to each other: Jay, a French explosives expert played by Victor Belmondo, and Chiara, an Italian cybercrime expert played by Simona Tabasco. The dysfunctional family must navigate old trauma and new friction to pull off the grand heist. Despite the star power, the movie fails to deliver on its comedic promises. Tucci's Career and Masterplan's PlaceStanley Tucci is a versatile actor known for selling Italian beer, making acclaimed food TV shows, and starring in films like The Devil Wears Prada 2, which was a box office success in 2026. He has bounced between blockbusters such as The King's Man and The Electric State, and more exceptional fare like Conclave. Masterplan, unfortunately, falls into the category of material that is clearly beneath him. It is one of his least memorable turns, even though he appears to be having fun.The film runs 110 minutes, which is mercifully under two hours but still feels about 20 minutes too long. It is a glossy but hollow project that likely cost a fair amount of money, yet it will be swallowed up by the annals of history when looking back at 2026.Unfunny Comedy and Weak ScriptDespite being billed as a heist comedy, Masterplan is impressively unfunny. The script attempts to capture the energy of a European farce with fast pacing, witty banter, and absurd twists, but it fails miserably. Prime lines include Roger replying to his children calling his plan to gain security access to the Louvre not bad, with a crude remark about being English. Later, he likens something to being as safe as drying pubic hair over an active volcano. Someone clearly found this funny, but most viewers will not.The real problem is that Masterplan is a very consciously post-Ocean's Eleven caper. It uses the same stylish editing flourishes, character jousting, and complex heist mechanics. But the Ocean's movies were clever enough to nail the details and treat their contrivances with seriousness. Masterplan relies on everyone the trio encounters having single-digit IQs and the audience being baffled by insufferable techno-babble or distracted by hollow editing quirks. If you drank every time there was a swipe edit, you would be unconscious long before the end credits.Once you notice the sloppiness in the details, such as the establishing scene showing the Mona Lisa exhibit being recognizably wrong for anyone with even the slightest knowledge of the Louvre, the distraction fails. All that is left is the awful script, worse story, and difficult chemistry between the three leads. It also all smells of misspent money.Twists Taken to a Ridiculous ExtremeThe film starts with a contrivance that there are just seven days to prepare for the heist, so every moment counts. You would think this would create dramatic pressure, but the movie hurtles through most of that time and shows only surface-level details of the plan. Neither of the experts comes across as such, and the stakes feel empty.Things improve slightly when the third-act twist is revealed, as some frustrating creative choices are somewhat recontextualized. But for this type of precise narrative deception to work, everything up to that point has to be immaculate. The heist has to be on the audience, not just on the Louvre. It roughly works, but again, it dies in the details and thanks to the script. After the third-act twist picks things up a little, Masterplan's ending fittingly descends into utter nonsense.When things go wrong in Ocean's Eleven, it is because of unpredictable, exceptional twists. When they go wrong in Masterplan, it is because literally nothing was planned properly. The heist itself, which takes up a lot of runtime, is idiotic but framed in a self-congratulatory way that feels like provocation. Overall, Masterplan is a forgettable entry in Tucci's filmography and a disappointing heist comedy.