Crime 101 by Don Winslow was adapted for the big screen by the author and Bart Layton, the latter is the director; the result is a good, if not overwhelming thriller – you find thousands of notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other sites on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, which has about ten subscribers

 

Crime 101 by Don Winslow was adapted for the big screen by the author and Bart Layton, the latter is the director; the result is a good, if not overwhelming thriller – you find thousands of notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made  and other sites on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, which has about ten subscribers

 

7 out of 10

 

Crime 101 is entertaining, and that should be the whole ‘review’, except I will keep adding lines to this, with the knowledge that few, if any bother reading this, and that is also some solace, it means freedom to say just about anything…well, saying what I think about the Orange Twat in the White House got me kicked out

 

Barry Keoghan is not the lead here, but this thespian is outstanding, he has such a wide range, from The Banshees of Inisherin https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-banshees-of-inisherin.html to The Killing of The Sacred Deer and more, he is so talented that he must win a few Oscars, if he keeps acting like this

Chris Hemsworth has the leading role of Davis, a thief specialized in jewelry, which he takes without violence, nobody has been injured in his heists, even if this may be about to change – he has been working with what was called a ‘fence’, although I am not sure it applies here, played by Nick Nolte, who has lost much of his voice

 

Saltburn is another film in which Barry Keoghan shined, indeed he was the lead there, in the film directed by Emerald Fennell https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/03/saltburn-screenplay-by-emerald-fennell.html I will have to see Wuthering Heights, her latest creation – well, with the team – quite far from the original

Davis had this plan for a new robbery, and his accomplice, Money aka Nick Nolte, knows about it, and when his partner says it does not feel right, he just gives the details to Ormon – and this is the occasion for a superb performance from Barry Keoghan – who does the job himself, and that infuriates the mastermind

 

Ergo, Davis confronts Money, it was his scheme, and he would have had to agree to have it handed out to somebody else – after all, we see that work goes into this, if not of the moral, ethical kind – besides, this turned out to be a very violent Heist, think Asphalt Jungle  https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/03/saltburn-screenplay-by-emerald-fennell.html or some other classic

Money says his younger partner (Davis) will have to come ‘with his tail between his legs’, but in the meantime, he wants revenge and thus he tells Barry Keoghan aka Ormon to follow Davis, learn about his new target, and then let him take the diamonds and then rob him, it gets complicated, but it is a thrill, perhaps like Heat https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2023/12/heat-by-michael-mann-another-look-at.html

On a final note, I have met Chris Hemsworth at the…gym, I am not a huge fan, seeing as he has been in Marvel movies (is Thor one of those, I am not sure) and I do not watch those, but he has been excellent in Furiosa, I recognized him, asked if I could take a selfie and I did, he was nice, and indeed, his work in Crime 101 is commendable

 

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