Steven Soderbergh’s
No Sudden Move, written by Ed Solomon, is a crime thriller set in Detroit in 1954. The movie’s timeframe coincides with that period when the city was at the center of global automobile production and had reached its peak population, some two million people. The genre, the locale and the era are promising.
Benicio Del Toro and Don Cheadle in
No Sudden Move Soderbergh had already made one relatively light-hearted film primarily set in the Detroit area,
Out of Sight (1998). Perhaps the director would take a more serious look this time?
The new work opens with a visually striking sequence in which Curt Goynes (Don Cheadle) ambles through a gray Detroit neighborhood. Just out of jail, Curt needs some fast money. A bulky Doug Jones (Brendan Fraser) offers the ex-con a considerable sum of cash for what appears to be a straightforward job.