Among the half dozen movies Nicolas Cage releases every year, there’s always a stray diamond in the direct-to-digital-TV rubble. Well, maybe diamond is pushing it but The Trust (2016) is still a good movie. Elijah Wood and Cage play a pair of Las Vegas cops who work in evidence collection. When paperwork leads Cage to the existence of a secret vault for criminal money collection, they start to plan a heist. There’s a good double act here with Wood’s concerned slacker and Cage’s goofball eccentric (Cage particularly puts a lot of trademark relish on his lines and gestures). What starts as an Elmore Leonard caper turns into a George V. Higgins type of statement on the American Dream as the stakes get raised and things turn serious in the third act heist. Some great nifty sequences and turns in the script. It’s now available to watch on Netflix and is only 90 minutes long.
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