John Boyega plays the real-life veteran Brian Brown-Easley, whose desperation drove him to a tragic end in 2017.

Plaza, playing a debt-ridden Angelano enticed toward the criminal underworld, fully sheds herself of the comic pretensions that have long defined her.

The director's best movie since "High Flying Bird" sees him turning his eye once again to capitalistic structures with divinely entertaining panache.

Jason Statham returns to a cold-blooded world of firefights and fistfights, but there's no tangible drama in this crime drama.