Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Hello everybody and welcome back to Movie Deputy Reviews. We are doing an in depth interrogation and I think interrogation is the right word for this considering the movie we are talking about today.
If you have not seen this one, don't feel bad. I did not see it till last night. I know I'm a little bit behind on some of this. Shame on me. But I wanted to bring this one to you. I saw that this one was now available on a Prime video. So if you are an Amazon prime member, you can actually watch this movie for no addition additional charge as it is available on Prime Video. At least at this point it is. So that's kind of a little interesting tidbit on that. Now we are talking about the movie Crime 101. It's got some big names, it's got Halle Berry. It's got.
No, my brain's blanking. Mark Ruffalo. It's got Chris Hemsworth. Sorry brain. Total brain fart there for a second.
Now if you have seen a trailer for this movie and this is one that you've been excited to see, please stick with me through this review. I can guarantee I'm not spoiling anything. I hate spoilers. So I would never do that to you. But I want to touch on some key things in this and before we get too far into that, I do want to let you know I gave this movie a guilty rating. But you're gonna have to wait a little bit to find out what the score is. So let's jump in with the trailer first and then we will jump more into this. And of course I will share the podcast image as I changed quite a bit from this original poster. So lets check out this trailer.
So restart it.
[00:01:35] Speaker B: Take a deep breath in.
And exhale.
What do you see?
What do you feel?
Feel this moment.
[00:02:00] Speaker A: There's water in the truck.
[00:02:06] Speaker C: He has jewels, cash and high value items. He knows exactly what to transport him when there's no DNA. He's in and out in seconds.
[00:02:16] Speaker D: Your guy's untraceable.
I came here to meet your business proposition. Worked the Same company for 11 years. You're a VP when you should be a partner with high value items. Your company insures might have disappeared start. Hand me your phone.
[00:02:33] Speaker A: See, you're a thief.
[00:02:35] Speaker D: Guys who work for you clean.
[00:02:39] Speaker E: I needed to start considering myself. And maybe.
Life's too short to drive boring cars, right?
[00:02:49] Speaker D: If you deal with me, what's the superior setup?
[00:02:53] Speaker E: There's a courier carrying washi and gems looking at $11 million in one room
[00:02:58] Speaker A: of which I want three, let him rob the cour.
[00:03:04] Speaker D: And then you rob him.
[00:03:24] Speaker C: Every serious dance is created.
It's not about the money.
[00:03:28] Speaker E: What is it about?
[00:03:32] Speaker A: I'm getting close.
I know.
Now, I don't know if you were paying attention or not, but yes, Nick Nolte is in that trailer as well. And he's also in the movie, obviously. And so there's a few other faces like the. Like that that you will see in this one. Now, what we see from the trailer is that it's about a diamond heist worth 11 million. The gal works for the insurance.
The guy, just who he works for is a bit complicated, but it explains it throughout the movie.
And so how this plays out.
It's partially a heist movie. There's a lot of stuff with yoga and meditation stuff going on. Almost distracting to the point of, like, the. The animal stuff in Lucy, just where it was just distracting from the story. It's like, okay, what's the point of this? How does this fit in? It keeps breaking in with all of these deep breathing exercises and stay calm and all of this soft, relaxing. And you're going, but this is an action movie, right?
Kind of.
Kind of an action movie, kind of a thriller, kind of a drama, kind of.
You know, I don't know how to finish that fourth one.
This movie has an identity crisis.
Why am I saying that? It's because there is a. There's a fairly simple story of what is going on here.
And I.
I don't know if it was bad writing, bad acting, was it written to be this way, or was it the way that the actors and actresses carried it out? I don't focus on a lot of the Hollywood gobbledygook. I typically don't even focus on this. But it's almost like the story itself was a distraction for what's going on when you're supposed to be able to follow the story through the movie.
And when it kind of starts to reveal itself about halfway through, you're kind of going, okay, it's starting to make sense. And then it devolves from that fairly quickly. And that's kind of.
I gotta explain why I keep, like, looking off to the side, guys, and I apologize. I've got NASA on my phone here. And the Artemis is coming back into the Earth's atmosphere. So I just kind of keep glancing over at that. So that's why I keep, like, kind of looking over to the side.
But that has nothing to do with my review on this. It's like, I just wanted. When the screen Changes I kind of glance over to just to that real fast. I don't want to miss that, but I don't want to miss this either. And that is not affecting this review in any way, shape or form. But basically, she works for the insurance agency.
You've got a bunch of cops trying to follow a pattern that's maybe not a pattern. And then you've got the vigilantes and you've got the people who want the diamonds and how all of this plays in part. And then you've got some weddings involved and you've got all these other things. You're going, how is all of this connected?
And even if you pay attention to every detail, when it's all said and done at the very end, you're still going to be sitting back going, Was just that dumbstruck like, look on your face.
So I don't.
It's like I said, it's a heist movie, it's a thriller movie, it's the drama movie. It's supposed to be an action movie, but it kind of misses the mark on every angle. The best part about this is like watching some of the robberies happen and that shouldn't be the focus of the movie, how it all plays out. And then I love the line that life is too boring to drive boring cars. I mean, I'm kind of a gearhead, kind of a car geek. I love cars. I love especially cool cars.
And so the, you know, I said the bank robberies are probably the. The robberies, not bank robberies, but the robberies, the jewelry robberies were probably the best part of the movie. Let me rephrase that. Some of the cars that you see in this one are probably the best part. But again, those are just brief snippets.
The highlights of the movie, honestly are in the trailer.
So really this has got to be one that you really want to sit down and watch. If you're going to sit down and watch it. Because if it's just a casual interest, you're going to get bored and probably shut it off.
Just to be honest, I, if I wasn't a critic, I probably would have turned it off. That, that kind of says a lot.
But so overall you're probably wondering. You can kind of probably guess where I'm at score wise on this one. It wasn't the worst by any means, but it's far from the best.
I gave crime 101 a surprisingly generous 4 out of 10 on the deputy scale.
A 4 on the deputy scale is watchable but forgettable.
This one. There are parts that are watchable, but a lot of it is just filler. It's I, I went back after I watched this, after I kind of figured out the score, everything I was going to give it. I went back and was looking at other reviews and I'm like, okay, there, there are people out there that loved this movie, which really surprised me. But it seemed like the vast majority of people were left just going, what was that? And why?
So like I said, it's going to be a judgment call on whether or not this is for you, but I hope ultimately this helps. Let me show you the podcast image now. Take a good look at the poster here. If you're over here on our YouTube channel, if you're not over here on our YouTube channel, feel free to come over and check us out. Because over here you can see me, you can see my facial expressions and all that. And then of course, the trailer. But then you get to see when I change the posters like I did with this one. Now here's the poster, here's the podcast image. Did you notice the difference?
Let's go back to the poster real quick. I normally don't make a change this big on a poster, but this one, it just seemed like it needed it.
Again, that's the poster and that's the podcast image.
So I'm just going to leave it on that as we wrap up for today.
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But again, I hope this helps some of you and I will be back tomorrow with another new review for you. Bye.
