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Bart Layton's Crime 101 invites the audience into a world of corruption that is not so different from the real world, where even decent people can be compromised if the price is right.
Chris Hemsworth plays Davis, a gentleman thief in L.A. who robs jewel couriers during their deliveries. He's a gentleman because he is measured and methodical and never hurts anybody. He has popped up on the radar of a grizzled detective named Lou (Mark Ruffalo), who feels isolated from the rest of the force, is going through a divorce, and fixated on catching the thief.
Davis works for a big-dog smuggler and trader called Money (Nick Nolte) but falls out of favor with him after a heist goes south. When Davis steps back, Money hires Ormon, a renegade stick-up boy on a motorbike (Barry Keoghan) who is not afraid to break a few heads or lay out a few bodies during a job.
Into the mix comes gig-worker Maya (Monica Barbaro), who runs into Davis, literally, and begins a tenuous relationship, through which the audience learns a bit of crucial backstory of the secretive thief and the reason for his peculiar drive.
A separate storyline involves a high-dollar insurance agent named Sharon (Halle Berry), whose promotion to partner has been put on hold again. A big delivery to one of the firm's wealthy clients (Tate Donovan) offers Davis the kind of payday he needs to quit and the retribution that Sharon needs to heal her wounds.
Layton, who wrote the screenplay based on a novel by Don Winslow, manages to keep all of these threads tightly in hand as he weaves a fascinating story about the price of personal integrity in a world that places no value on it.
Chris Hemsworth plays Davis, a gentleman thief in L.A. who robs jewel couriers during their deliveries. He's a gentleman because he is measured and methodical and never hurts anybody. He has popped up on the radar of a grizzled detective named Lou (Mark Ruffalo), who feels isolated from the rest of the force, is going through a divorce, and fixated on catching the thief.
Davis works for a big-dog smuggler and trader called Money (Nick Nolte) but falls out of favor with him after a heist goes south. When Davis steps back, Money hires Ormon, a renegade stick-up boy on a motorbike (Barry Keoghan) who is not afraid to break a few heads or lay out a few bodies during a job.
Into the mix comes gig-worker Maya (Monica Barbaro), who runs into Davis, literally, and begins a tenuous relationship, through which the audience learns a bit of crucial backstory of the secretive thief and the reason for his peculiar drive.
A separate storyline involves a high-dollar insurance agent named Sharon (Halle Berry), whose promotion to partner has been put on hold again. A big delivery to one of the firm's wealthy clients (Tate Donovan) offers Davis the kind of payday he needs to quit and the retribution that Sharon needs to heal her wounds.
Layton, who wrote the screenplay based on a novel by Don Winslow, manages to keep all of these threads tightly in hand as he weaves a fascinating story about the price of personal integrity in a world that places no value on it.
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