No movie with Gerard Butler in it has any right to be this good.
Simultaneously a good LA heist movie, with the right pieces of tension.
It doesn't have the humor of Ocean's 11, the professionalism of Heat, or the extravagance of Ambulance. It trades these up for plausibility, realism, and character driven tension, thanks to the amazing deployment of actors into character roles. They may not be stunning drama performances, but the casting as "types of guys" which you…
I would bet hard cash that if I read the book I'd pick up on more cryptic British Israelism vibes, but I haven't so-
Good movie.
Preliminaries:
Good film. Much more mythic, flat-image as opposed to the human reaction focused shooting of Fury Road, an emphasis on movement and landscape, not perception. Great sound design. There are ellipses, moments where the film pauses on a set of actions, characters, or colors where it lingers- for example, the Waterhouse painting scene, which "fill in" the world by giving the audience space to imagine logistics and characterizations which otherwise would not really exist- this was a shortfall of…
