That brings the movie around to reverse-Frank Capra territory, where we are cynically lectured, as in Network, that none of us little guys can effectively fight the powerful executives who really run things. The film feels most old-fashioned and unnecessarily talky when it allows an elite executive played by Matt Damon to deliver an absurdly chatty philosophical tangent that manages to offend and insult most minorities. Performances are solid and reassuring, and it doesn't seem coincidental that some of the smartest characters here are women - played by Frankie Shaw, Julia Fox, and Amy Seimetz as Matt's weary wife. Soderbergh is a student of film as much as he's a gifted filmmaker and storyteller, so his nod to past films is no surprise, nor is the film's studied noir-ish feel, as these characters seem to move through a brown cast to the air around them. The message of corporate corruption at the expense of a naïve public echoes the cynicism of Network, Steven Soderbergh's own Erin Brockovich (about water pollution), and Chinatown, about how wealthy parties took control of access to water in dry Southern California. The hostage set-up echoes 1940s and '50s tension-fests Suddenly, The Desperate Hours, and Key Largo. The plot's nearly incomprehensible twists and turns mimic Beat the Devil and The Big Sleep, films with famously hard-to-follow narratives. No Sudden Move is an extremely likable caper movie that nods to many iconic films of the past. The movie suggests that evacuating inner cities of minority populations to make way for highways and office parks, red-lining, gentrification, and other racism-based programs implemented across the country were and continue to be part of boosting an American economy that depended at least partly on the widespread use of cars and trucks.
No sudden move review series#
At the heart of this heist story is a series of other crimes more far-reaching than holding a suburban Detroit family hostage. Multiple double crosses ensue, the police play a corrupt role, and a racist, anti-Semitic White automotive executive demonstrates that he and others like him are calling the shots in American society, without regard for the law. After someone dies by gunshot, Curtis realizes he can make far more money peddling the document higher on the food chain. Matt is planning to leave his wife for his boss' secretary, Paula ( Frankie Shaw), complicating the plot. Curtis Goynes ( Don Cheadle), fresh out of prison, and the dim-witted bad guy Ronald Russo ( Benicio Del Toro) are hired to baby-sit the family of Matt Wertz ( David Harbour), a car company accountant, while Charley ( Kieran Culkin) drives Matt to steal the document out of his boss' safe. The executive is hiding it from his bosses and trying to sell it to bigger car companies eager to bury the report because in the 1950s, those corporations hadn't yet admitted that burning gasoline causes air pollution. PLOT: In 1954 Detroit, a group of small-time criminals are hired to steal emerging car technology. In NO SUDDEN MOVE, an automotive executive has a secret report describing plans for a car part that can limit car pollution.
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