I can't believe the 3.6 IMDb rating this film has as I come here to write this. You same folks gave "The Old Guard", another Netflix project, a 6.6 rating, and that one is no better or no worse than this one. Not that you can't pick out the flaws, but for action/adventure fans, there's a lot of explosions and bloodshed to go around here. That's not actually what I come to a picture like this for, but you sort of have to go with the flow.
So the working premise is that the government will soon implement what's called an API signal that will inhibit the criminal mind from committing unlawful acts. When the switch is thrown, all police authority in the country becomes moot, and the FBI remains in sole charge of maintaining law and order, such as it will be. As the date draws near, the window of opportunity for outlaws, and specifically the protagonists in this story, narrows for executing one last heist. Graham Bricke (Edgar Ramírez) is sought out by a crime kingpin's estranged son (Michael Pitt) via his sexy girlfriend (Anna Brewster), to join a convoluted scheme to rob a billion dollars in old and new money before the API signal is implemented.
Granted, this film didn't require two and a half hours in the telling, but how else would Bricke, Kevin Cash (Pitt), and Shelby Dupree (Brewster) get into and out of so many impossible situations. Even a couple of FBI guys on the take have a hand in the story, making it possible for Shelby to rescue her sister from some situation that isn't made clear. With the clock running down, there are enough double crosses to go around in order to leave one last man standing. Well, make that one last woman standing.
That API signal by the way, was described earlier by Kevin Cash, who said it was a molecular modulation of the pre-frontal cortex, which sounded to me a little like a lobotomy. Which reminded me of a line from one of my old time comic books about an interplanetary assassin named Nexus, who once said "I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a pre-frontal lobotomy". And as for the basic plot of the story, I do have a major reservation about the government implementing a program to void criminal behavior. I mean, how would Congress ever come up with a majority of it's members to ban what comes naturally.
So the working premise is that the government will soon implement what's called an API signal that will inhibit the criminal mind from committing unlawful acts. When the switch is thrown, all police authority in the country becomes moot, and the FBI remains in sole charge of maintaining law and order, such as it will be. As the date draws near, the window of opportunity for outlaws, and specifically the protagonists in this story, narrows for executing one last heist. Graham Bricke (Edgar Ramírez) is sought out by a crime kingpin's estranged son (Michael Pitt) via his sexy girlfriend (Anna Brewster), to join a convoluted scheme to rob a billion dollars in old and new money before the API signal is implemented.
Granted, this film didn't require two and a half hours in the telling, but how else would Bricke, Kevin Cash (Pitt), and Shelby Dupree (Brewster) get into and out of so many impossible situations. Even a couple of FBI guys on the take have a hand in the story, making it possible for Shelby to rescue her sister from some situation that isn't made clear. With the clock running down, there are enough double crosses to go around in order to leave one last man standing. Well, make that one last woman standing.
That API signal by the way, was described earlier by Kevin Cash, who said it was a molecular modulation of the pre-frontal cortex, which sounded to me a little like a lobotomy. Which reminded me of a line from one of my old time comic books about an interplanetary assassin named Nexus, who once said "I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a pre-frontal lobotomy". And as for the basic plot of the story, I do have a major reservation about the government implementing a program to void criminal behavior. I mean, how would Congress ever come up with a majority of it's members to ban what comes naturally.