![]() Amy Seimetz plays an unhappy, self-medicating wife and mother who is stifled in her ’50s life, and both Julia Fox and Frankie Shaw make waves with unexpected juice. Perhaps most refreshing are the female characters, so often in ’50s noir relegated to vixens in pill hats or virginal moms in housedresses. Macy is famous for and Liotta still just has to stare to fill a room with dread. Harbour wonderfully plays the role of a regular guy in over his head that William H. Hamm is a charming cop, Fraser is a scary bully and Damon can’t conceal his boyish charisma even in a baddie role. Culkin leans into the unstable, dangerous energy we so adore in “Succession” and Del Toro uses his side-eyed menace to great effect. It’s welcome but not enough, like progressive window-dressing.Ĭheadle is perfect - and perfectly named as Curt - a savvy, mostly quiet smart thinker. So they’ve dressed up “No Sudden Move” with oblique references to racial tension, redlining and capitalist greed. The film takes place over two frantic days and Soderbergh is clearly trying to ape the look and feel of a noir melodrama that feels from the 1950s, using tilted camera angles, old-fashioned lenses that distort and language that skims close to the gangster-speak of pulpy old movies - “So what’s the score?” and “It’s a setup!”īut he and screenwriter Ed Solomon also want to elevate the material to more than just wiseguys in fedoras driving classic cars with fins. But this is no “Ocean’s Eleven” - it’s as dour and sluggish and deliberative as Soderbergh’s other crime caper franchise is joyfully slick and stylish. ![]() There’s also Brendan Fraser, Benicio Del Toro, Kieran Culkin, David Harbour, Ray Liotta, Bill Duke, Jon Hamm and Matt Damon. Soderbergh, as always, has assembled an insane cast, with Don Cheadle as the closest thing to a hero. Trust no one in “No Sudden Move,” a hard-boiled, ever-expanding con that rises from the ragged streets to the stately boardrooms of conspiratorial Big Auto and the corrupt police precincts of the Motor City. It’s 1954 in Detroit and that sounds like a easy job.Įxcept this is a noir crime flick from director Steven Soderbergh and that means nothing is easy except perhaps some double-crossing, triple-crossing and, befitting an Olympic year, the very difficult quadruple-cross with a twist. the only advice i could give to you, is to watch this at your own risk.Curt Goynes, a two-bit criminal just out of jail, needs cash and lands a seemingly easy payday at the beginning of “No Sudden Move.” All he has to do is detain a family in their home at gunpoint for three hours and then he can walk away with $5,000. i wouldn’t say to avoid this film either, because some may love it. if i knew that it was directed by Soderbergh, i probably wouldn’t have viewed it. In shorter words, No Sudden Move (2021) isn’t a terrible movie, but it’s cast is. Toro’s performance wasn’t too good either, despite him being given such an interesting character. Fox’s act was very messy, which surprised me, because i loved her act in Uncut Gems (2019). Soderbergh may not even be to blame here, but the casting director is. some of the humor was decent, but that’s all i could give this movie. Liotta didn’t have much screen-time, but he still gave a great performance, which i enjoyed. ![]() the fisheye lens, the acting performances, and the score were all annoying to me. ![]() what truly ruined this movie was the way it was executed. the choice of dialogue wasn’t appealing to me, but it wasn’t horrible either. I’m not the biggest fan of Soderbergh, because i feel as if he has directed many films that were written well, but were directed poorly. that city would be Detroit! No Sudden Move (2021) isn’t a perfect movie, but it’s storyline is very entertaining. A lot of mob movies are similar to each other, but No Sudden Move (2021) differs from your average crime film, because it focuses on a city that doesn’t have much of a reputation in cinema.
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