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Here’s one of those films you long to be good at an old-fashioned armed robbery thriller. Sadly, this neglects even the most basic and cursory facts that could make it work. Matt Dillon and Columbus Short play Michael and Ty, a couple of guys who work as gun-toting security guards on a fleet of armoured trucks carrying millions of dollars. On Ty’s first day on the job, Michael and the boys stage a mock attack on the truck – apparently as a hoax “initiation” to welcome Ty to the crew. Chillingly, Ty finds that this was actually a dummy run, a rehearsal for a massive bogus robbery in the middle of nowhere after which the team will claim to have been beaten up and all the money taken. If Ty wants in, that’s fine. But if he doesn’t well, won’t his dead body make everyone’s cover story look even more plausible? Crucially, none of the plan details so essential to a tense heist drama are given to us; the gang’s individual characterisations get lost, and the movie gets boringly marooned in a Reservoir Dogsish abandoned stockyard. Disappointing.
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