Article #6907

Thriller from director Rebecca Thomas paints a convincingly hoodlum world where every table is turned

“I’m gonna fucking doxx you” is the tech equivalent of “I’m going to get medieval on your ass” in this brisk neo-noir crime thriller, starring Dane DeHaan as a hacker with a heart of gold. DeHaan never quite broke through to the top echelon as he promised to in the mid-2010s but, constantly kojaking a lollipop here, he shows scuzzy self-assurance as Cole, a petty scammer who skims people’s security credentials from unsecured wifi networks and empties their bank accounts.

Cole is on a hot streak until restaurant doorman and considerably more scary hoodlum Oscar (Mamoudou Athie) gets wise to him and arrives at his home to administer a beatdown. Oscar has plans for the geek: to use him to fleece Sarah (Sasha Calle), a glamorous member of his clientele who has boasted about the $800k sitting in her current account. But after they siphon it off, Cole gets scammer’s remorse when criminally affiliated lawyer Mark (Jeffrey Donovan), for whom Sarah is holding the cash, threatens to kill her if she doesn’t return the loot.