After unsuccessful bank robber Johnny Chicago is released from prison, he plans his next coup. During his first few days on the loose, he makes sure that his former partner Chuck Moreno is fired and his girlfriend arrested. But the real trouble starts when they notice a procession of small investors moving from Germany to a tax haven in Luxembourg with plastic bags full of money. "‘You don't have a chance, so take it’ was a popular saying back when ‘Troublemaker’ was created. Andy Bausch has a soft spot for the losers of prosperity, for the people who have fallen out of society during the structural change from the steel industry to financial services. And, like Ken Loach, he knows how to set the scene in their places, the small pubs and dingy flats. Luxembourg is rarely beautiful in Andy Bausch's films. And speaking of structural change: in ‘Back in Trouble’, the sequel from 1997, in which Chicago and his mate Chuck Morreno (Ender Frings) act just as amateurishly, they are after the Germans' money, who carry it in plastic bags to the banks in Luxembourg. But not when they are robbing the bank. ‘Our craft has entered a new creative phase,’ it was once pompously said in this film, through which the spirit of ‘Butch Cassidy’ and ‘Sundance Kid’ wafts." (Rudolf Worschech, on: epd Film)