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Jaina K’s review published on Letterboxd:
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I was really really enjoying the first two acts of this one, but the ending really dragged it down for me. I'm a sucker for a good heist film, and the assembly of the crew, the arrangement of the plan (especially the "flash forward" to the idealized iteration of the heist!), and the heist itself were really fun! I'm always a sucker for the "Things almost go wrong 2 or 3 times before they actually go off the rails" trope. But after the heist itself is pulled off, the double crosses come a little too hot and heavy for my liking. When I'm watching a heist, I don't mind if one person or a duo suddenly has a secret agenda...but this one made me distrust literally everyone except our lead and didn't give me a whole lot to sink my teeth into on exactly why. And the "shot the wrong man" ending felt more comically nihilistic rather than any kind of tragic or pitiable. All in all, pretty lukewarm on the movie as a whole. I still plan on checking out the rest of the Nikkatsu Noir boxset eventually though.