Best films that illustrate the complete incompetence of criminality?

[Crowded Caribou]

I just got finished rewatching Fargo. A brilliant exercise in dialogue, setting and character, the film is also a perfect example of the utter incompetence of criminal endeavours. Not even specifically looking at Carl and Gaer, though they are both equally terrible at what they do for different reasons, but also Jerry. His multiple flawed attempts at fraud which all backfire almost immediately (were not a bank, Jerry) coupled with possibly the worst plan in the history of man to stage a ransom that sets off an utterly insane chain of events because this dumbass had no idea what he was actually doing, it turns what in any other tone of a film would be an uncomfortable crime thriller into the blackest of black comedies, all because of sheer incompetence. Even the arguably most competent criminal in the whole film (the mechanic ex con who put Jerry in touch with Carl and Gaer to begin with) still ends up having his relatively minor crime screw up (though to be fair that one wasn’t entirely his fault).

So it has me wondering, what are some other great examples of films that depicting supposed criminal geniuses as nothing more than complete idiots?

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