Money Movers (1978)

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When you know director Bruce Beresford for Driving Miss Daisy, Money Movers is a real shock to the system. This raw little Australian heist picture about armored car drivers borders on the procedural, and is at least as much about the security business as it is about the would-be robbers (Bryan Brown from F/X is one of them). The gritty naturalism is sending us headlong into a fiasco too, as the boys advance their plans after their company starts to scramble after one of their cars is hit by a deadly hold-up. So now they're under pressure to carry out THEIR daring crime before new measures are put in place, also dealing with new personnel and old criminals taking an interest. Heist movies are often fun, this one rather feels desperate and gloomy. And for the first hour, you're probably wondering who all these people are, what their agendas might be, and also, what they're saying (the naturalistic sound is often hard to parse). 7 months ago