Robert De Niro’s Heat thief Neil McCauley famously proclaimed, “The action is the juice.”
And for genre filmmakers, replicating the thrills of Michael Mann’s 1995 crime masterpiece has likewise been a vital objective, spawning a robust subgenre of knockoffs led by Ben Affleck’s superb The Town and Christian Gudegast’s first-rate Den of Thieves.
To that loyal crew, one can now add Crime 101, an underworld epic cast in a decidedly Mann-sian mold, with Chris Hemsworth (a vet of the auteur’s 2015 Blackhat) as an ace crook whose daring robberies have put him in the crosshairs of numerous adversaries, and a terrific Halle Berry as one of his potential accomplices. Adapted from Don Winslow’s 2020 novella of the same name, it’s a film that lives up to its title by being, in every way, basic—and, in the process, confirms that there’s a reason some clichés endure.
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