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An armored truck company has just authorized its newest guard, and he’s having money issues. The other guards know this and use this as a selling point when they propose their scheme: steal their latest delivery and make it look like they were robbed. At first he refuses, but when he finds out he’s about to have his brother taken away by child services, he reconsiders on one condition: no one gets hurt. At first all looks good, until things start to go wrong, leading to violence. Now the new guy is locked in an armored car while the others try to get him out to kill him so he won’t rat on them.

This movie was a great idea for a thriller. It’s a very simple plot, money heist goes wrong, guy gets cold feet, others turn on him. You become invested in the lead to the point, that more than not dying, you don’t want him to abandon his principles.

This is the most annoying type of bad movie, the kind that could’ve been really good. It suffers from both a sub-par script and either bad directing or too much studio involvement. Not enough time is paid to the situation and the movie jumps to different plot points too swiftly for you to really grasp what’s going on and why. The conclusion felt forced, swift, and unsatisfying. While, yes, you are very attached to the lead role, he’s the only one remotely developed or consistent in his character. As for the poor script, most of the dialogue was completely unnatural. There was one conversation where one character says the other’s name in pretty much every sentence. No one talks like that. And something has to be said about the marketing team. Way too much was revealed in the trailers. One scene that probably would’ve been really tense was completely ruined by the fact that I knew how it ended already.

A great film that almost was. D+. Don’t bother watching it. Really not worth it.