Why would you consider The Hot Rock overrated? As far as I can tell, it doesn’t have enough of a reputation to warrant it. Granted, it’s a weak adaptation of a terrific novel, but most people have probably never even heard of it.
Hollywood long ago lost the great talents who knew how to write with subtlety or elegance. The overpaid creeps who turn out movies like Pulp Fiction are destroying Western civilization. Or maybe they are just the symptoms of a declining culture. Ah, well.
Anybody here ever see the original Lady Killers, or The Wrong Box?