Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Matt Dillon | ... | Mike Cochrane | |
Jean Reno | ... | Quinn | |
Laurence Fishburne | ... | Baines | |
Amaury Nolasco | ... | Palmer | |
Fred Ward | ... | Duncan Ashcroft | |
Milo Ventimiglia | ... | Eckehart | |
Skeet Ulrich | ... | Dobbs | |
Columbus Short | ... | Ty Hackett | |
Andre Jamal Kinney | ... | Jimmy Hackett | |
Andrew Fiscella | ... | Dispatcher #1 | |
Nick Jameson | ... | Homeless Man | |
Glenn Taranto | ... | Joe the Cook | |
Lorna Raver | ... | Child Welfare Agent | |
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Garry Guerrier | ... | Federal Guard |
Robert Harvey | ... | Bank Guard |
The war veteran, Ty Hackett, is hired to work as security guard by the Eagle Shield Security where his old friend Mike Cochroone works. Ty is having financial difficulties after the death of his father, and is raising his brother Jimmy alone. He teams up with Mike's brother-in-law, Baines, and their coworkers Quinn, Palmer and Dobbs. One night, Mike invites Ty to join in the robbery of two armored trucks transporting forty-two million dollars. The reluctant Ty accepts after Mike promises that nobody would be hurt in the heist. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Good, boring or bad? It's good. Worth your money? If you can spare it for a ticket, sure. Better than the trailer makes it seem? Yes, oddly.
There isn't much to the script - Guards working at armored truck company move vast amounts of cash. Guards see opportunity to retire as millionaires, one of them is too honest to go along with it all, and a well-laid plan goes to hell.
This could have been a poorly-executed Reservoir Dogs ripoff, but the skill of the cast and the director's ability to make just about anything tense pull it out of that realm and put it onto a solid footing.