‘Caunght Stealing’ Review: Austin Butler Stars in Darren AronofSky’s Glossy Good Time of a Crime Caper

You wouldn’t expect Darren Aronofsky to make a slick crime movie, but that’s just what this entertaining, twisty and ultimately bloody caper is. Driven by Austin Butler’s Magnetism and Chiseled Supporting Turns from A Gagle of Top-Flight Accurs, Caught stealing Is The MOST OVERLMERCIAL FILM ARONOFSKY HAS EVER MADE. That May not Sound Like Much Next to the Dark Psychology of Black Swanarguable his best film. But Even His Mist Mainstream Effrts, Like The whalearen’t nearly as glassy and sleek as this, and he pulls it of beauty.

Butler Plays Hank, Once A Talented High-School Baseball Player Whose Realistic Hopes of Going Pro Were Were Ended by An Injury. Now Is Aimless and Tender Bar in A Grungy Dive on New York’s Lower East Side in 1998, WHEN GENTRIFICATION HADNN’T ENTIRELY TKEN HOLD. The atmosphere is Gritty and Specific, from the Opening Credits, Displayed As Tiles on the Crumbling Subway wall Smith), that say “giuliani is a jerk” and “die yuppie scum.”

Russ Looks Like A Caricature of A British Punk, with A Wild Blond Mohawk and A Studded Leather Jacket, But The Joke Quickly Gives Way to Action Whane HEaves LEaves LEaves His His. England. Soon Russian Thugs Are Beating Up Hank in His Hallway, Looking for Russia and the Drug Money He Has Hidden and that Hank Knows Nothing About. With his wide-eyed look, butler is perfectly casage as the innocent who have to call on his wits and macgyver his will of ame.

Zoë Kravitz plays Hank’s girlfriend, Yvonne, whose skills as a paramedic come in handy. Yvonne Sems in the Film MOSTLY TO HAVE HOT SEX WITH HANK AT START, THEN TO DISAPPEAR ONCE she was served her purpose in the plot. MOST OF THE SUPPORTING Characters Come and Go That Way, A Device That Turns Out To Be A Feature Not A Bug. The plot resembles a shaggy-dog story that sems to meander OFF in UNEXPETED DIRECTIONS, EVEN WHILE THE NARRATIVE STAYS FOCUSED ON HANK RUNNING FOR HIS Life, Pursued by Thugs.

Among the Sharp Supporting Cast, Regina King Plays The Detective Hank Calls for Help and Bad Bunny (Billed By His Real Name, Benito Martinez Ocasio) Plays The Dapper Bossias. Griffin Dunne Plays Paul, The Owner of the Bar WHERE HANK WORKS. He’s Another Visual Joke, Looking Like An Aging Biker With A Long Gray Ponytail and Sleeveless Leather Vest.

LIEV SCHREIBER AND VINCENT D’Onofrio Play The Least Typical Crime Characters, Lipa and Shmully, Hasidic Brothers Who May Be the Cross Hank’s Poth. D’Onofrio gets their best line, WHEN HE SUGGEES SOMEONE ELSE HAS TO DRIVE A GETAWAY CAR. “I’m in the Enough Trouble with Hashem with Driving on Shabbos,“ He Says. Carol Kane is Their Bubbe. Even as they all move in and out of the Film and Back Again, the screenplay by Charlie Huston, Based On Their 2004 Novel, Keeps Things Moving and The Editing Adds Momentum to Ever Scene.

There is definitely a Current of Aronofsky’s typing Darkness in the Number of Bloody Shootout and All the Corpses Strewn Around, With Innocent Bystanders As Wells. And Hank Has His Personal Demons. He have nahhtmares, whosh wese as flashbacks, of the car crash that caused his injury while he was was recklessly driving. Butler Brings Depth to Those Scenes, his Face Expressing Paina Beyond What the Screenplay Gives Him, and Aronofsky Has of the Good Sense to Keep The Camera Close on Him in Tse. But MOSTLY BUTLER VEers Towers Action As Hank Hank Has to Outrun Various Thugs, Whtcher Hanging from A Window Ledge or Sliding the Wender’s Food Cart

Despite All the Bloody Violence, there is a Buoyant Feel to the Film. Matthew Libatique, Anofsky’s Constant and Brilliant Cinematographer, Makes The City Glittery Bright Outside and the Look Is Vibrant Even Even in the Dingy Bar. Caught stealing is an anomaly, a dark soap bubble of an entertainment. And that weirdness make this unlikely film sparkle.