It may be that home has no room for you.

Caught Stealing — 2/5

I'm looking to figure out where Aronofsky is in this, and I simply could not tell you. Put any number of generic directors at the front of this and I'd believe more easily it came from them. What's up with all these famous intellectual directors out here making Steven Soderbergh jaunts? Are they trying to prove they can have fun? Fucking stop it, you're not fun, it's not what you do. This movie, at its best, is trying to be some take on 'Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels,' fun smaller characters caught up in a bigger world, but neither side of the equation is all that interesting. I didn't know this going in but I should have been made wary by this movie being based on "the first in the [person] series of novels." When has that ever worked out? Movies keep trying to make these 70s-adjacent character-centric novels into bigger things, and Jack Ryan's been the closest to success, and even his movies are all pretty blah. What is it that keeps those novels from working at movies? Austin Butler is certainly fine here, but his Hank Thompson is not some Fletch-level of character where you can see where people might want to follow him further. The casting here is left and right; Regina King is woefully miscast, Zoe Kravitz continues to play herself, the Facebook version of cool, and I'm surprised that the generic AI-generated phone voice we heard throughout the movie belonged to Laura Dern, and then Liev Schreiber, Vincent D'Onofrio, and Matt Smith all think they're in 'Snatch,' which, good on them for thinking they're in a better movie. They're broad sketches of characters in a movie that's focused on little details that don't matter. What's it matter that Hank don't drive, that he has an alcohol problem, that he likes the Giants? Ah, so the finale is in a Mets stadium? Oh, no, they're just passing through? Nvm. It's just notes on a character, fleshed out but with no blood pumping through their veins.