2014 · drama · action · comedy
Plastic
Directed by Julian Gilbey1h 42m2014
Sam and Fordy run a credit card fraud scheme, but when they steal from the wrong man, they find themselves threatened by sadistic gangster. They need to raise £5m and pull off a daring diamond heist to clear their debt.
Our read: Plastic (2014) reads as a neutral, breathless, grounded drama · action · comedy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured drama / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- kinetic
- intense
- cold
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“You want a loud British lad-crime caper with fraud, diamonds, and swagger.”
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