![]() On the bus, Vaughn proves himself the voice of sanity, placating the passengers (even the one who pulls a knife on him) and trying to keep the hot-headed Cox under control before violence breaks out.Įven as the film threatens to turn into a slower-paced variation on Speed, it throws in enough twists and turns to make one’s head spin, with several characters and situations not as they first appear. ![]() They’re hotly pursued by the police - including sympathetic detective Kris (Gina Carano, Haywire), who defies direct orders by letting them get past a roadblock - as well as Pope and his minions, eager to get the gang because the stolen $3 million is illegal laundered money. Needless to say, the plan goes awry, with Vaughn and his criminal cohorts (including one played by co-screenwriter Stephen Cyrus Sepher) having to hijack a city bus to make their escape. ![]() So he decides to take up his hulking co-worker Cox’s (Dave Bautista, Guardian of the Galaxy and Spectre) offer of joining an inside-job robbery. When Vaughn asks his boss for a $300,000 loan to pay for his dying little girl’s lifesaving operation - yes, it’s that kind of movie - he’s rudely rebuffed and violently sent packing by Pope’s vicious enforcer Dog (Morris Chestnut). ![]()
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