A poorly imagined crime flick that comes nowhere near justifying its 2.5-hour running time, Olivier Megaton'sadapts a graphic novel in which the U.S. government has built a mind-control ray — maybe this is that 5G conspiracy the Alex Jones crowd has been ranting about? — that will soon prevent would-be villains from breaking the law.
The authorities have conveniently put up giant countdown clocks all over the place, letting schemers know exactly how long they have left to misbehave. But the son of an infamous Mob boss thinks he sees a loophole: Swaggering rich kid Kevin and his hacker fiancee Shelby think they can disable one Michigan API tower for 30 minutes after it turns on, allowing them to rob what they refer to as a "money factory" and get across the Canadian border before cops get their act together.
Overplaying his part as a twitchy sociopath, Pitt needs a foil. Enter garden-variety criminal Graham Bricke, whose surname seems to have informed Ramirez's flat, uncharismatic performance. Bricke is meant to be the lynchpin here, so essential to the heist that Kevin is willing to send his lady to seduce him. Aside from hunkiness, it's hard to understand what makes Bricke essential; but as the movie's voiceover admits, "sometimes everything is just bullshit.
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