This short starts out to be pretty much a genre short film of a job (probably) gone wrong. We know this early on as the two characters await the other two men for the four-man job; problem is that one has cried off and as a result another has made the decision to rope in Reggie to fill the gap – or, as the others know him, "that drug-addled piece of sh*t". With this character established before we even see him, we can be confident that probably this film will not be one of a nice neat job where all goes well – and indeed, not to give too much away that is specific, but generally things do not go well.
In this sense the film is pretty much what you expect although it does do a decent job of delivering the "job gone wrong" film. What makes it more memorable is a certain twists that breaks us out of the reality of the film even while at the same time keeping us in it – again I won't say too much but there is a nice dark humour to the film that runs throughout and makes it engaging. Ultimately it doesn't end as being amazing or a short I would come back to again and again, but it is effective for what it does and was more amusing than I expected it to be – judging the tone right so it can be funny without being silly.
In this sense the film is pretty much what you expect although it does do a decent job of delivering the "job gone wrong" film. What makes it more memorable is a certain twists that breaks us out of the reality of the film even while at the same time keeping us in it – again I won't say too much but there is a nice dark humour to the film that runs throughout and makes it engaging. Ultimately it doesn't end as being amazing or a short I would come back to again and again, but it is effective for what it does and was more amusing than I expected it to be – judging the tone right so it can be funny without being silly.