Casey Stein (Nicholas Hoult) meets Juliette Marne (Felicity Jones) at a concert in Cologne, Germany. They start dating. He works for local criminal Geran (Ben Kingsley). She needs a kidney transplant. Hoping to make money for her surgery, he takes a job from Geran to steal drugs from his evil boss Hagen Kahl (Anthony Hopkins). It does not go well.
I've never heard of this film and was surprised to see the top level cast. It's trying to be a stylish action thriller. It is not successful. The plot is plodding simplicity. Ben Kingsley is over-compensating with crazy character work which clashes with a rather bland performance from Nicholas Hoult. The plan does not work but I've seen worst. There is plenty of action but no tension. The writers probably considered themselves Tarantino but they are nowhere close. There are situations that don't make sense but the movie keeps going. It's a waste of perfectly good actors.
I've never heard of this film and was surprised to see the top level cast. It's trying to be a stylish action thriller. It is not successful. The plot is plodding simplicity. Ben Kingsley is over-compensating with crazy character work which clashes with a rather bland performance from Nicholas Hoult. The plan does not work but I've seen worst. There is plenty of action but no tension. The writers probably considered themselves Tarantino but they are nowhere close. There are situations that don't make sense but the movie keeps going. It's a waste of perfectly good actors.