Remember when you went out to the theaters to see movies like
HEAT
THE TOWN
THE DEPARTED
COLLATERAL
That's the world of CRIME 101 and it has an 88% on Rotten Tomatoes - the best score and reviews of any movie out there.
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Thrilled and grateful for the amazing response to CRIME 101 from critics and viewers. 88% on Rotten tomatoes and the amazing reviews.
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Watched “Crime 101,” the film adaptation of a novella by our Don Winslow. It was excellent! Completely satisfying! The balance between thrills, action, drama, character work, and foreshadowing is spot-on, all ultimately converging onto the central spine of the story: Highway 101. It reminded me of the kind of high-quality noir films I loved as a kid. Rather than leaning too heavily on extreme violence, excessive car chases, or nonstop gunplay, the film sustains tension through to the end while deeply exploring where each character is headed. It’s not about justice or good and evil, nor about law or ethics. Instead, a sense of “love” for the characters and an almost chivalric code of “honor” quietly and satisfyingly come to fruition in the final moments. At one point I found myself thinking, “What if Michael Mann had directed this original story?” But director Bart Layton skillfully draws out Don’s deep affection for Steve McQueen. The cast is stacked with actors known for playing comic-book “superheroes”, Thor, Hulk, Storm, and Druig, yet by treating each character’s background with sincerity, the film succeeds in letting the delicate emotions of “the pursuer,” “the pursued,” and “those caught in between” naturally seep into their actions — something many post-Tarantino noir films seem to have lost. And it was a real pleasure to see Nick Nolte on screen as well.
Chris Hemsworth tells us that it was both comforting and strange to work with Mark Ruffalo on ‘CRIME 101’ after their work in the MCU.
“[We’re] kind of inhabiting completely different characters, it was like acting in front of a family member…”
‘CRIME 101’ debuts with 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, the highest rating for a crime thriller this decade.
The film follows a thief that has a specific moral code that he follows while performing jewelry heists across the Pacific Coast Highway.