Speaker 1: After successfully completing a string of high end robberies, a
Speaker 1: very disciplined and elusive jewel thief named Mike finds himself
Speaker 1: in a bit of a pickle when his fence recruits
Speaker 1: a reckless replacement as he believes that Mike has lost
Speaker 1: his nerve for heisting. As if that wasn't enough, a
Speaker 1: dogged detective is putting all the pieces together and Mike
Speaker 1: is feeling the heat around the corner. It's Crime one
Speaker 1: oh one. I'm Ronald Young Junior, and I'm leaving the theater.
Speaker 1: All right. This is Ronald and I am leaving the
Speaker 1: theater after seeing Crime one O one. Crime one O
Speaker 1: one written and directed by Bart Layton, starring Chris Hemsworth,
Speaker 1: Mark Ruffalo, Barry Coogan, Monica Barbaro, Corey Hawkins, Jennifer Jason Lee,
Speaker 1: Nick Nolty, and Holly Berry and as usual, for complete
Speaker 1: listing of the cast and crew, you can check out
Speaker 1: the link in our show notes. All right, Crime one
Speaker 1: oh one. It is a film about a thief who
Speaker 1: does not He is not a violent thief, but he
Speaker 1: steals high end jewelry from high end people through I
Speaker 1: would say threatened violence, but never actual violence. And this
Speaker 1: thief is played by Chris Hemsworth. The cop that is
Speaker 1: in hot pursuit of him is Mark Ruffalo. And it
Speaker 1: was I think I was two thirds of the way
Speaker 1: through this movie until I saw Chris Hemsworth and Mark
Speaker 1: Ruffalo and a scene together, and it clicked that this
Speaker 1: was the incredible Hulk that I was looking at, which
Speaker 1: was a nice little easter egg to see them together.
Speaker 1: And then there's Holly Berry who is She is an
Speaker 1: executive at an insurance company. And this is really the
Speaker 1: convergence of these three storylines, seasoned by appearances from Monaco
Speaker 1: Babaro and Barry Kougar as the villain, and Nick Nolty.
Speaker 1: This is a crime film. And when I think of
Speaker 1: a crime film, I think of Heat. I believe that
Speaker 1: is from nineteen ninety six. Heat is ninety three, maybe
Speaker 1: ninety five. I was so close. I was circling it.
Speaker 1: You heard me. When I think of a crime film,
Speaker 1: I think of Heat. And the reason why is because
Speaker 1: Heat is a great example of what you could do
Speaker 1: with a crime film and really how it goes. So
Speaker 1: typically you have three heists in a good crime film,
Speaker 1: three main heists. There might be other crimes that happen,
Speaker 1: but there are three main heists. There's the one heist
Speaker 1: that goes fine, there's another heist that is botched, and
Speaker 1: then there's the final heist, in which the climax of
Speaker 1: the movie is dependent on. Most good crime movies follow
Speaker 1: this format if you have more than three heists or
Speaker 1: three criminal main criminal acts, and typically it's a heist.
Speaker 1: But if you have more than three heists, typically in
Speaker 1: one film, it's I mean, there's montages. It's weird. It
Speaker 1: just doesn't it doesn't necessarily, it doesn't really flow with
Speaker 1: the three act structure of a movie. Three heists are
Speaker 1: good ways to push the plot along and keep things moving.
Speaker 1: I used to think that films that followed this format
Speaker 1: were just knockoffs of Heat until I realized that they
Speaker 1: probably realized the same thing, which is that this works.
Speaker 1: This is what people want to see. They don't need
Speaker 1: you to reinvent the wheel. In a lot of ways,
Speaker 1: if you think about it, this is kind of how
Speaker 1: sports movies go to You typically have three main games,
Speaker 1: and then typically somewhere in there there's a montage of
Speaker 1: more than games, but there's typically a game at the
Speaker 1: beginning that tells you some there's a main game in
Speaker 1: the middle that tells you something, and there's a main
Speaker 1: game at the end that that is really for all
Speaker 1: of the marbles, and we've learned all the lessons and
Speaker 1: the montages, and sometimes there's other games and stuff that
Speaker 1: are baked into those montages. The reason why this is
Speaker 1: important is because it's to say things that are derivative
Speaker 1: of Heat. I don't think are necessarily worse than Heat
Speaker 1: or bad because of it. This movie has a lot
Speaker 1: of one to one in Heat. Heat is a movie
Speaker 1: about a gang of criminals, whereas this focuses on one criminal,
Speaker 1: mostly one criminal. I should say, Heat has a dogged,
Speaker 1: haggard detective that's on hot on the heels of this criminal.
Speaker 1: Crime one on One also has the same thing in
Speaker 1: Mark Ruffalo. Crime one on One adds a few other
Speaker 1: elements with Holly Berry's insurance lady as well as there's
Speaker 1: kind of an opposing criminal that also pops up. But
Speaker 1: all of the elements that tie it to Heat, in
Speaker 1: my mind, don't make it worse. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: they make it better. I think this a good movie.
Speaker 1: It was very good job of ratcheting up the tension
Speaker 1: through the plot. I'm really in it with Chris Hemsworth.
Speaker 1: It reminds me a lot of the beginning of Drive
Speaker 1: with Ryan Gosling, where he is a driver that is
Speaker 1: trying to help these criminals get away from crime. It's
Speaker 1: obvious that Ryan Gosling knows what's happening and knows what
Speaker 1: he's doing, very much the same way that Chris Hemsworth
Speaker 1: in the beginning of this movie is obviously a guy
Speaker 1: that is capable, that knows what he's doing. The first
Speaker 1: heist is always supposed to be pretty immaculate in order
Speaker 1: to kick off films like this. This one does a
Speaker 1: good job of that. I'm sitting forward in my seat.
Speaker 1: I'm having a good time watching that. As the action continues,
Speaker 1: there is a love interest that emerges, which is one
Speaker 1: of my least favorite parts of Heat, but it does
Speaker 1: good for character development. There's a part of me that's
Speaker 1: just like, come on, let's go, let's go, let's go.
Speaker 1: But the thing about having a love interest is that
Speaker 1: it allows you to inde carry yourself more to the protagonist,
Speaker 1: in this case, Chris Hemsworth. In this film, I think
Speaker 1: there's two things that I got really excited about, but
Speaker 1: they didn't necessarily stick. The landing on two things, one
Speaker 1: police corruption and two Robin Hood. Robinhood. There's an aspect
Speaker 1: of Robinhood to all of this, and those two plot
Speaker 1: points made me very excited about what was being set up.
Speaker 1: In the second act of this film, they don't quite
Speaker 1: go all the way through with it. There's an officer
Speaker 1: involved shooting around the middle of this film. As a result,
Speaker 1: Mark Ruffalo is told that he needs the playball or
Speaker 1: he could lose his job, and then I thought that
Speaker 1: this movie would take a different direction as a result,
Speaker 1: because for me watching films like this, what I've often found,
Speaker 1: especially in twenty twenty six, that it's hard for me
Speaker 1: to ever root for the police anymore because the the
Speaker 1: jig is up. We know, y'all aren't the good guys.
Speaker 1: We know that. Now that's something that's factual that we
Speaker 1: all know. A lot of people have done the reading.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of people that still try to make
Speaker 1: you know cops are good all that, And I'm sorry, y'all.
Speaker 1: If you've been listening to this podcast for a while
Speaker 1: and you to know that I'm not pro cop, then
Speaker 1: I'm sorry that this is the way that you had
Speaker 1: to find out. But this is who I am. I
Speaker 1: just don't trust the cops. I won't talk to them,
Speaker 1: none of that. It's hard for me to go back
Speaker 1: and watch reruns of Law and Order SVU without thinking
Speaker 1: about the cases from the perspective of the people being investigated.
Speaker 1: Of course, you pulled out an investigative unit that does
Speaker 1: all of this work to take down crime, but you
Speaker 1: have to make the criminals the worst of the worst,
Speaker 1: Otherwise you never noticed that this entire division is a
Speaker 1: little bit corrupt. I'm looking at you, Elliott Stabler, and
Speaker 1: you do, Olivia Benson. I'm saying all that to say,
Speaker 1: when I watch a film like this, I always wonder
Speaker 1: are they going to be honest about the cops. Are
Speaker 1: we going to talk about closing cases CompStat the pressure
Speaker 1: that it takes for them to not do good police work,
Speaker 1: And they do in this film. That's why I immediately
Speaker 1: got excited, because one of the obstacles that Mark Ruffalo
Speaker 1: is up against in trying to solve this crime is
Speaker 1: his own his boss, his own colleagues, who are all
Speaker 1: just like we just want to close the case. What's
Speaker 1: the easiest path to closing the case? And for me,
Speaker 1: That always means that we are going to whatever it takes,
Speaker 1: whatever the most obvious choice is, We're going to go
Speaker 1: for that because that gives us the bigger closure rate,
Speaker 1: which is one of my biggest gripes with the police.
Speaker 1: I think The Wire, the show, the TV show The Wire,
Speaker 1: does a very good job of covering this. I believe
Speaker 1: it is in season three. It may be at season four,
Speaker 1: but I think it's at season three, so it might
Speaker 1: even be in season two. I don't know. It's the
Speaker 1: one where they talk about CompStat a lot. I think
Speaker 1: it's season three. Somebody go check anyway saying all that
Speaker 1: to say, as they bring this up and as it's
Speaker 1: becomes more of the main plot, I got excited thinking,
Speaker 1: oh great, this is a film that is not on
Speaker 1: the side of cops. It's not saying that cops are
Speaker 1: the good guys. We got to catch this thief who
Speaker 1: is the bad guy. It is more morally gray there,
Speaker 1: because I think in a lot of ways, a thief
Speaker 1: that is stealing items that are insured is a good thief.
Speaker 1: It's one of the greatest things that you could do
Speaker 1: because the fact that rich folks can ensure their items
Speaker 1: and get paid for being robbed is also another It's
Speaker 1: another way that, and especially these insurance companies that are
Speaker 1: charging these high premiums. It's crookedness all the way to
Speaker 1: the top, but they are allowed to be legal about it.
Speaker 1: So this movie is making some sort of attempt to
Speaker 1: subvert that. The problem is it doesn't quite stick the landing.
Speaker 1: When it gets to the end. I am mostly satisfied,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't quite do exactly what I want it
Speaker 1: to do towards the end, which is why my rating
Speaker 1: won't be as high as I expected it to be.
Speaker 1: When I'm sitting in my seat. The last thing I
Speaker 1: want to say is that the acting in this movie
Speaker 1: is very good. Every single actor that showed up clocked in.
Speaker 1: Everyone clocked in. Monica Barbaro clocked in, Barry Coogan clocked in,
Speaker 1: Holly Berry clocked in more on her in a second,
Speaker 1: Chris Hemsworth clocked in, Mark Ruffalo clocked in. They all
Speaker 1: did what they are good at. And the more I
Speaker 1: see Chris Hemsworth, the more I believe that he should
Speaker 1: be getting more. He should be getting bigger roles, he
Speaker 1: should be getting more dramatic roles, he should be getting more.
Speaker 1: Oscar Z Roles is like, I think this is his
Speaker 1: time to shine. I think that he is every bit
Speaker 1: as good as his colleagues. I like that he is
Speaker 1: not nearly as smug as Robert Downey Junior is in
Speaker 1: every role that he takes. He plays a very specific
Speaker 1: role in this film that I really enjoyed watching. He's
Speaker 1: very evasive. He doesn't look people in the eye, but
Speaker 1: it's very subtle and something that you don't notice because
Speaker 1: it's Helmsworth until someone points it out, and then I
Speaker 1: couldn't stop saying like, yeah, he is very evasive. It
Speaker 1: does play nervous very well. It's doing well in this film.
Speaker 1: Even though he's supposed to be this like slick criminal
Speaker 1: who knows exactly what he's doing. He does a good job.
Speaker 1: Mark Ruffalo Haggard great, that's what he does now. He
Speaker 1: does a lot of Haggard. I have not watched Task yet,
Speaker 1: the show on HBO, but I bet you he's Haggard
Speaker 1: in it. I'm gonna go watch it. This is a
Speaker 1: man that does not shame. He's down for the cause.
Speaker 1: I love Mark Ruffalo. He showed up, but I wanted
Speaker 1: to make sure I give some time to my girl,
Speaker 1: Holly Berry. Oh, Holly Berry, I'm so glad to see
Speaker 1: you in a film like this in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: I'm so glad to have watched you span my entire
Speaker 1: life with your career. She is very good in this film.
Speaker 1: She has to do multiple things. She has to be
Speaker 1: a woman in a workplace, in a boys club. She
Speaker 1: also has to be capable. She also has to be
Speaker 1: good looking, but she also has to be aging, which
Speaker 1: is like for someone to actually lean into that. To
Speaker 1: be in Hollywood and leaning into the fact that you
Speaker 1: are aging while still remaining beautiful is a tight rope
Speaker 1: to walk, especially for women that have to work in
Speaker 1: this industry right now. It means a lot of things.
Speaker 1: Holly Barry doesn't shy away from this. It makes me
Speaker 1: think about her entire career. Holly Barry has never been
Speaker 1: afraid of looking sweaty. She's never been afraid of running
Speaker 1: around being punched like. She's never just been afraid of
Speaker 1: anything physical or meaty in a role. She is a
Speaker 1: true act thor. I was so happy to see her
Speaker 1: in this film. I really enjoyed her and it felt
Speaker 1: refreshing to see her. It made me think about all
Speaker 1: of the starlets of the nineties and early two thousands,
Speaker 1: Julia Roberts. Okay, I really was only thinking about Julia Roberts.
Speaker 1: But the point is. The point is Holly Barry does
Speaker 1: a great job in this film. It's a good movie.
Speaker 1: It's a very very good movie. This movie could have
Speaker 1: been great. This could have been four point five stars,
Speaker 1: four point seven five, even five star. It had the
Speaker 1: potential to be it. However, it's not a complete movie.
Speaker 1: There are storylines that like don't really wrap up towards
Speaker 1: the end. There's some parts that are very unsatisfying towards
Speaker 1: the very very end of the film, and I want
Speaker 1: to say, like we're talking in the last ten percent
Speaker 1: of the movie, very very unsatisfying. However, the rest of
Speaker 1: it really really worked. And for that reason. With all
Speaker 1: of that being said, I give this movie a three
Speaker 1: point seventy five three point seventy five, not quite a four.
Speaker 1: I think that another version of this movie is at
Speaker 1: least a four, and another version of this movie is
Speaker 1: is well above a four. Very good movie. You should
Speaker 1: go see it. I don't know if you need to
Speaker 1: see it in theaters unless you want to see all
Speaker 1: of the people I named big on the screen but
Speaker 1: this is a movie that if you watch it at home,
Speaker 1: in your couch with a blanket, with your with your honey,
Speaker 1: or by yourself, you're gonna be like, man, that was Man,
Speaker 1: I want to watch something else like that? Else? Can
Speaker 1: I watch like it'll? It'll make you hungry to watch
Speaker 1: something else that is also good. So three point seventy
Speaker 1: five of five stars. And with that, Leaving the Theater
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