We love it when a plan comes together … which is not happening here.
Many of the best crime thrillers and heist movies are sustained by characters screwing up. As pleasurable as it can be to watch a plan executed flawlessly — an impulse Steven Soderbergh clearly understood with capers likewhat keeps the stakes high is the element of human error. So many movies are structured around the big mistakes that inevitably occur during schemes that seem easy in theory. The plot of Akira Kurosawa’s, kicks off with the wrong child being abducted.
In the appropriately named “Loyalty,” trust issues are still the focus, but it feels like everyone believes each other a littleeasily; Garmen’s willingness to immediately accept Xavier’s story feels a little inconsistent with his character, even if he has a soft spot for the guy.
But Gerald Jones and Aida continue to nail the utter panic that Louis and Nat are going through in this desperate scramble to get a ticket home. Like Mel later describes herself to Sam, they’re “flailing”; from here, they think their only option left is to buy their way onto Garmen’s plane by stealing the valuable painting from the Brownes’ apartment.
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