Thrillers that happen in a single location aren’t quite common. It appears filmmakers want to make the most of a stage for spectacle, and the script is left in a secondary airplane. If we add the motion style to this equation, it’s much more uncommon. But do you really keep in mind motion movies having good scripts except for the plain ones we all the time converse of?
In Solid Rock Trust, author/director Rick Ives decides in any other case. He’s eager on sustaining the movie on his lead’s shoulders and getting an excellent story out of a very monotonous setting. But guess once more. Solid Rock Trust is nicely… strong (ha!). Ives’ movie is way more fascinating than its premise, and except for a number of points, it goes down easily as a Friday night time thriller with all the best items.
The story is easy. Maddie is a hacker and she or he’s answerable for main a financial institution heist from an deserted constructing. For some motive (I’m guessing it’s extra of an opportunity for Koko Marshall to showcase her performing) she communicates with the workforce pretending to be a distinct particular person when she talks to every of them. Things keep in management at first.
And then all of it goes to shambles. Horribly. Everything Maddie builds falls down very slowly as she tries to manage her workforce contained in the financial institution, and a cop who’s negotiating the discharge of hostages. Solid Rock Trust is one twist after one other submitting Maddie to the best take a look at she’s ever endured.
It’s fairly apparent from the beginning however that is Koko Marshall’s present. The movie is sustained by her efficiency as a frontrunner making an attempt to realize belief from each attainable facet. There’s a physicality to her efficiency that’s merged with the setting and she or he graciously strikes between computer systems and cellphones and convinces us of her function. The movie wouldn’t work as nicely with out an actress being dedicated like Marshall is.
However, within the third act Solid Rock Trust stumbles a bit. There’s a closing twist that doesn’t really feel as linked with the movie, and actually doesn’t do a lot for characters. Not even for Maddie who will get betrayed and loses confidence for a second. It additionally drifts in direction of a territory with out a lot logic in its decision.
This is one nicely written thriller that might resolve your night time instantly. It’s nicely acted and even when it might use some chopping within the enhancing room, the director’s imaginative and prescient is uncompromised. When it involves indies, it doesn’t all the time occur, so when it does, we must always have a good time.
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