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HBO Max’s ‘No Sudden Move’ is a stylish caper that keeps you guessing ’til the end
No Sudden Move is a complicated story with the simple premise of a playfully meandering and star-studded caper flick that’s steeped in the vibes of a midcentury film noir.
HBO Max Watch Guide | No Sudden Move
The ensemble feature directed by Steven Soderbergh and penned by Ed Solomon feels immediately like a creation from the filmmaker who gave the world Danny Ocean. But where Soderbergh’s trilogy of Las Vegas heist adventures mixed the ostentatious style of America’s glitziest city with the cool-guy aesthetics of the Rat Pack, No Sudden Move takes a grimier turn.
Set in mid-’50s Detroit — and shaped by the social and economic forces of that time and place — Solomon’s twisting story opens on a trio of apparently outcast small-time criminals (Don Cheadle, Benicio del Toro, and Kieran Culkin) who are brought together for a simple yet unusually lucrative job: “Babysit” (i.e., watch and, if things go south, kill) a working man’s family while said working man, played by a clean-shaven but rough-edged David Harbour, steals some valuable paperwork from his boss’s office safe.
