IMDb plot summary: A group of criminals are brought together under mysterious circumstances and have to work together to uncover what's really going on when their simple job goes completely sideways.
Directed by Steven Soderbergh. Starring Don Cheadle, Benicio Del Toro, David Harbour, and Jon Hamm.
Steven Soderbergh directed this movie, and it's definitely got some of his hallmarks. It's a slick, fast-paced heist crime story with unexpected moments of humor scattered throughout. Like many stories in this genre, I find myself getting tired of the endless twists and double crosses and new characters being introduced all the time, but this film does a good job of keeping an emotional center to the story and helping us navigate the world's twistiness through just one or two characters. Despite being set in the 1950s, it feels unusually modern -- I kept genuinely forgetting it was a period piece until suddenly something would feel out of place and I'd remember where we were. It's pretty solidly put together, if not something that I'm going to remember a year down the line.
How it entered my Flickchart:
No Sudden Move < The Keep
No Sudden Move > Play It Again, Sam
No Sudden Move < National Treasure
No Sudden Move > Miss Potter
No Sudden Move > The Trouble With Angels
No Sudden Move > Birdman of Alcatraz
No Sudden Move > Teacher of the Year
No Sudden Move > Double Jeopardy
No Sudden Move > National Velvet
No Sudden Move > Run Lola Run
No Sudden Move > A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Final spot: #2138 out of 3418, or 37%.
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