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2014 · thriller · crime · action · heist

Good People

Directed by Henrik Ruben Genz1h 30m2014
ElsewhereIMDb5.518kRT13%Metacritic42
  • sombre
  • brisk
  • intense
  • cold
Movie DNA

Sombre, kinetic, measured thriller / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Tom and Anna Wright, a young American couple, fall into severe debt while renovating Tom's family home in London. As the couple faces the loss of their dream to have a house and start a family, they discover that the tenant in the apartment below them is dead, and he's left behind a stash of cash—$400,000 worth. Though initially hesitant, Tom and Anna decide that the plan is simple: all they have to do is quietly take the money and use only what's necessary to get them out of debt. But when they start spending the money and can't seem to stop, they find themselves the target of a deadly adversary—the thief who stole it—and that's when very bad things start happening to good people.

Our read · Good People (2014) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded thriller · crime · action entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want a London find-money thriller that escalates into home-invasion chaos.

ends warmyou’ll be fine aftersteady all the waygrips by minute 14attention 2/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
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Skip it tonightYou expect Franco-Hudson chemistry to elevate a generic crime plot.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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