Crime 101

Finally found time to watch Crime 101 in my busy weekend schedule - I had to catch the 10 a.m. screening at the second home cos I got a thing in the afternoon. If nothing else, they only played 15 minutes worth of ads before the movie. And I only had time for lunch before I had to leave. 

Anyway, it was just me and probably almost a dozen people there on a Sunday morning. 

• The 101 in the title refers to the highway, not a freshman class on how to commit crime, but the way the protagonist plans his heists so that there's no violence and casualties is anything but freshman.
• Mark Ruffalo being an old, grizzled detective that's too honest and straitlaced for his own good is better fit than erm, Pedro Pascal? This is the one movie Pedro Pascal is not in LOL...
• There's no way Nick Nolte spent more than a day on that set; same goes for Tate Donovan, come to think of it, I feel like I'm the only one who still remember these unkers from the 90s.
• NGL, watching Thor and Hulk together (in the third act) in a non-MCU context was kinda jarring LOL 

For a movie not already based on existing IP, etc, it's okay lah. I'm not sure it needed to be quite so long (2 hours 20 minutes), but what the hey - if you're suffering from IP fatigue (I think there's a term for it, but can't be arsed to look it up right now), you could do worse than this. It doesn't have TV movie feels.