{"id":63443,"date":"2026-02-14T19:23:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T18:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=63443"},"modified":"2026-02-20T20:01:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T19:01:00","slug":"crime-101-a-review-of-a-film-i-wasnt-expecting-much-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/02\/14\/crime-101-a-review-of-a-film-i-wasnt-expecting-much-from\/","title":{"rendered":"'Crime 101': a review of a film I wasn't expecting much from"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Going to the movies always involves a certain risk. There are movie trailers that promise much more than what you actually get.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/01\/30\/mercy-a-science-fiction-film-that-addresses-the-possible-judicial-use-of-ai\/\">'Mercy', a science fiction film that addresses the possible judicial use of AI<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/12\/06\/nuremberg-and-the-terrible-evidence-of-the-evil-behind-the-nazi-crimes\/\">Nuremberg and the terrible evidence of the evil behind the nazi crimes<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, there are films that give you a bad feeling and are exactly what you least expected: a dud. Finally, <strong>there are some films you don't expect much from and go see purely for entertainment<\/strong>, and they end up being much better than you expected. <strong>Yesterday I went to see \"Crime 101\"<\/strong>, a feature film by a British filmmaker, Bart Layton, about whom I knew absolutely nothing. <strong>The film has a good cast, with Chris Hemsworth in the lead role<\/strong>, Mark Ruffalo playing a police officer, Halle Berry as an insurance agent, and Barry Keoghan as a very violent thief.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55095511881_4d7f2d9307_o.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55095511881_b50c1535f2_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>I must admit I thought I was going to see a new version of the \"Transporter\" franchise<\/strong>, but that's not the case. The film has some very good chase scenes, but it's more than that: <strong>a good cops-and-robbers movie<\/strong> that grabs you from the opening scene, which is quite atypical for this genre. The story is based on a good plot, and the three actors mentioned are very good in their roles. <strong>I especially liked the soundtrack, composed by the British Blanck Maas<\/strong>, which is quite reminiscent of the Jason Bourne films.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55094633497_1be0e25463_o.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55094633497_75b6a7bdfa_c.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The film is 140 minutes long, but they flew by, which I think is a good sign. <strong>I left the theater very satisfied because this film turned out to be much better than I expected.<\/strong> While not a masterpiece, I found it to be a very good action and suspense film. It's worth seeing. <strong>Here's the trailer:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Crime 101 | Official Trailer\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f5y-cziwmMw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going to the movies always involves a certain risk. There are movie trailers that promise much more than what you actually get.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11953],"tags":[26263,26260,26262,7158,26261,8846],"class_list":["post-63443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema-and-tv","tag-barry-keoghan","tag-bart-layton","tag-blanck-mass","tag-chris-hemsworth","tag-halle-berry","tag-mark-ruffalo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63443"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}