Mystery/Thriller Darren Aronofsky’s ‘Caught Stealing’| Austin Butler

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Darren Aronofsky is swapping tragedy for 'joy and adventure' with Caught Stealing

The director is entering lighter territory with his crime thriller, starring Austin Butler and Matt Smith. Read more at Empire.

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[Dave McFly]

I am sorry this looks like so much fun

 

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[Deck Rickard]

Looking forward to this. Love the cast, the premise looks fun and Aronofsky is usually really good. Might make me forgive him for almost making that Musk movie.

 

[Elayis]

I wasn't a big fan of this. It felt like a watered down version of better movies (The Lookout, Enemy of the State), with little specificity or personality. Every plot beat is rote and cliche. This kind of genre flick should be nastier and more fun, but at every turn it always felt like Aronofsky kept getting in his own way. It's kinda pathetic that the end credits displayed more flair and humor than anything in the actual movie. What a waste of Zoe Kravitz and Matt Smith.

I keep waiting for a return to the heights of The Fountain, The Wrestler and Black Swan, but with each subsequent movie he's made since then that dream feels all the more elusive.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Enemy of the State? The Will Smith movie?

 

[OrbOfConfusion]

Well! That had to be one of the most unpredictable films that I've seen as of recent, and brutal, too! Also, I love how this portrayed 1990s New York, to the point of almost making me want to see a Giants game, and I'm hardly a baseball fan.

Austin Butler was great, and Matt Smith was just manic with what little screen time he had. Despite how a lot of these characters could've come off as stock of stereotypical, Aronofsky gave them so much personality that I hardly cared.

 

[Elayis]

Enemy of the State? The Will Smith movie?

Yeah.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Yeah.

Wow that’s… not something I would have expected. This movie definitely seems polarizing.

 

[Elayis]

Wow that’s… not something I would have expected. This movie definitely seems polarizing.

I don't think it's interesting enough to be polarizing. There's nothing shocking about the movie, it just feels like the reheated leftovers of other movies executed without any flair or style of its own.

I wouldn't necessarily call it bad (for me it's a 4 or 5 out of 10), but it's less than the sum of its parts. I think Aronofsky's too uptight to deliver on the fun that a film like this requires. This would've been much better if it had been directed by Tony Scott or Tarantino.

 

[Dave McFly]

Well! That had to be one of the most unpredictable films that I've seen as of recent, and brutal, too! Also, I love how this portrayed 1990s New York, to the point of almost making me want to see a Giants game, and I'm hardly a baseball fan.

Austin Butler was great, and Matt Smith was just manic with what little screen time he had. Despite how a lot of these characters could've come off as stock of stereotypical, Aronofsky gave them so much personality that I hardly cared.

I agree with all above I really love how they captured late 90s NYC in this it was so surreal seeing the twin towers in some shots like they never left. and yeah Matt was great in all the scenes he was in you can tell he had a blast playing Russ