No Sudden Move
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Year Released: 2021
Rating: 2.0
Career criminals Goynes (Don Cheadle) and Russo (Benicio del Toro) get recruited to steal a precious document from the boss of auto executive Matt Wertz (David Harbour), but things - as expected - don't go quite as expected (in fact, they get much worse). It's Soderbergh (... once again) retreating to familiar territory - when nothing else works, make a heist movie! - and while it starts off promisingly enough (with "cinematographer" "Peter Andrews" abusing the fish eye lens and jaundice filter) it then becomes needlessly convoluted and keeps trying to one-up itself over and over ... until it finally goes so overboard with the plotting it winds up in another state altogether (welcome to Kansas City!). There's a neat little scene at the back end with Matt Damon, where he talks about (a.) gentrification, (b.) pollution, (c.) anti-Semitism and (d.) issues with Capitalism and class warfare. Let's all give Matt Damon a round of applause.