Robert Scucci | publishing
Your typical heist movie involves a meticulous plan to grab money and run, but in 2006 heart Not your typical heist movie. You won’t fully grasp the dangers of danger until the “ahha” moment when everything is clickable. While it has hostages, pounds pizza orders and demands for jets, heart Distort every telescope in this type to make it one of the best in its class.
You also make you yell “What’s in the box?” like the ending SE7en.
Perfect plan
heart Centered on Clive Owen’s Dalton Russell, a crime mastermind who remains calm, collects and always leads 10 steps ahead of Denzel Washington’s detective Keith Frazier. Starting with his opening monologue, you know you’re different when he breaks the fourth wall to announce that he’s taken out the perfect robbery from what looks like a prison cell. His arrogant delivery clearly shows that we are not getting the whole story.
It has nothing to do with money
What sets Spike Lee heart In addition to his contemporaries, there is also Russell’s motivation. He is not violent and does not want collateral damage. He wasn’t even after the cash in the vault, and Frazier quickly noticed it. With the help of Fixer Madeleine White (Jodie Foster) brought by bank owner Arthur Case (Christopher Plummer), Frazier realized that robbery was less than money and explained more about the secrets hidden in the vault.
Violence is not always the answer
Frazier initially assumed that he was dealing with a group of violent criminals, but White was an expert in reading people in high pressure situations, noting that Russell and his accomplices did not match the profile. Russell’s strategy proves this because each hostage dressed exactly like a kidnapper, causing chaos for the police and buying crew time when they worked through the master plan with most nonviolent means.
Russell has been following the prize, directing a room of pure intimidation when needed, but he also knows when to show kindness and discretion. The best example is when he notices a little boy playing violent video games. Russell makes sure the child has enough pizza and then warns him that he will say something with his father that he lets him play. This small but convincing moment suggests that Russell may be a criminal, but he is not without his conscience.
A complex mystery with unexpected rewards
heart Earn their retention never to display all cards at once. A bank was robbed, but not because of its money. The hostage looks like a kidnapper. The detective chasing the case has his own suspicious past. The person who loses the most shows that he is the most corrupt.
There is no clear good or bad guy heartbut a group of flawed people trying to drive this situation out of control. It wasn’t until Act III went into Act III that the final doomsday became clear, and it landed in a way that made the entire ordeal worth it.
At the time of writing, heart Streaming on Netflix.
