You will be exhaling a lot at times when watching this tense thriller at work and I recommend a snack unless you start nail-biting too. Nicely presented flick about you or me, ordinary people put into a tight spot and choosing a way out of a losing situation with a high risk venture choice. I even know a guy who did what happens in this movie and it mirrors real life. We can all relate and even cheer this guy on too because its us or someone you know. What happens when you discover a way to make money fast, loose and worth the involvement? The main character discovers something that nets him hundreds of millions of dollars which is the high point of the movie but then the low point enters in i.e. can he keep it all? We root from the sidelines and let our dark sides cheer this guy on until the movie reveals the price to be paid for this "shortcut" to wealth, power and fame which is always an interesting subject. Also, we get to see the normal meaningless gains such as sex, fine wines/dining, drugs, cars, and all the rest and how once you have them the "wrong way" become no only not important, but boring, unsatisfactorily and toxic as the movie details quite well. Think it can't happen to you? That is the first sign that it will! The Universal law of "whatever you get into gets into you" is no myth and the price paid is not merciful either. The acting is real to life as are the circumstances and risks making us get pulled in quite nicely. Notice too how the innocent people around everyone suffer as in collateral damage and also displayed is the "no easy way out" scenario. Who wouldn't want to be well-off but how you go about it has to be respected. Fasten the ole seatbelt and discover what the French do quite well which is caper-criminal movies and all that go with them. Oh one last thing. Watch this in a dark room on a large screen if you can as it has a lot of night scenes that make it hard to track in lighted conditions but pay nicely in a dark theater type environment.
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