Director: Jaime Bailey
Year: 2025
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Action/Thriller
Plot:
Returning to his small-town home, a federal agent attempts to reconnect with his complicated relationship with his father, which is soon interrupted by a bank heist in the town. As the police try to figure out what they’re plans are and why the robbery has taken place, the agent tries a special rescue mission to get inside the bank and stop them from carrying out their plans.
Review:
Overall, this was a fairly decent genre thriller. The film’s at its best when dealing with the effects of the heist itself and the resulting aftermath of taking over the bank and starting to hold the people hostage. As we get to see the ruthlessness and efficiency with which they operate, taking over and grabbing electronics, communications, and taking everyone to a different location as they dole out demands and search for a mysterious target within that takes their situation into far more dangerous routes as it becomes apparent they’re searching for something other than money. That enhances the suspense of the situation as the police on the outside try to figure out what’s going on, which makes everything feel more thrilling as it goes along.
That this is so reliant on having him stay inside the bank and try to work out how to stop them makes for a somewhat troubling experience where the logic behind it works, but it also manages to downgrade the action within this one. While there’s a lot to like with how the ploy allows him to go undercover looking at how to save everyone while trapped inside, the fact that a large part of the film results in philosophical conversations about what they’re doing and what’s so important about the nature of the robbery which is quite hard to make the action thrilling when it results in everything getting rushed through at the end. Combined with a wholly lame and underwhelming finale when we find out everything that’s going on, these do lower it just slightly.
Overview: ***/5
A solid and generally likable action/thriller with a few flaws, there’s enough to like here that it manages to remain a watchable feature even with those drawbacks keeping it from the upper echelons. Those with an interest in this style or approach will have the most to like here, while most others out there should heed caution.
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