Joe Finney to show up, and wow has Jon Hamm played a lot of law enforcement types and played them well, from “The Town” to “Bad Times at the El Royale” to “Richard Jewell.”Ĭlaudette Barius/© 2021 Warner Bros. Was the job a setup of some kind from the get-go? Things get even messier when a murder takes place, which is the cue for Jon Hamm’s ethically wobbly Det. Charley is trigger-happy and might have a separate agenda of his own - and when Matt opens the safe at the office, the document isn’t there. Ronald is a scummy backstabber and double-crosser who makes it clear he doesn’t like working with a Black man. The job starts to go sideways almost from the start. A beefed-up and menacing-looking Brendan Fraser is Jones, who hires Curt and two other guys, Ronald (Benicio del Toro) and Charley (Kieran Culkin) for a seemingly straightforward job: they’ll break into the home of Matt (David Harbour), an accountant for GM, and hold his wife and children hostage while Charley takes Matt to the office so Matt can retrieve a valuable document they might as well have called “The MacGuffin File.” (Distinct echoes of William Wyler’s 1955 classic “The Desperate Hours” can be felt at this point.) What could possibly go wrong? Don Cheadle gives a beautifully nuanced performance as Curt Goynes, a world-weary career criminal who’s just been released from prison and is looking to better his standing in the world. This is the kind of film you might appreciate even more upon a second viewing. Set in 1950s Detroit (and filmed on location in the city), “No Sudden Move” might have your head spinning at times as the plot weaves this way and that, incorporating small-time criminals and a big-time corporate cover-up and not always subtle commentary on the racial politics of the time into the story, but director Soderbergh and the veteran scribe Ed Solomon (“Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure,” “Men in Black”) do a remarkable job of tying the loose ends together in a plausible and satisfying manner. But it’s yet another instantly immersive, richly layered and beautifully shot chapter in one of the most impressive directing careers of our time. “No Sudden Move” isn’t Soderbergh’s first foray into neo-noir crime films he delivered back-to-back gems with “Out of Sight” in 1998 and “The Limey” in 1999. It’s a stunningly versatile canon of work. Rated R (for language throughout, some violence and sexual references). presents a film directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Ed Solomon.
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