Genre: Crime/Thriller
Director: Josh and Benny Safdie
Writer: Mark Newton
Based on the Swedish film
Cast: Robert Pattinson, Michael Pena, Cliff Curtis, Sharlto Copley, Rade Serbedzija, Alexia Fast, Glen Powell, Matthew Modine
Plot: John "JW" Weston (Robert Pattinson) is a student at Columbia Business School in New York. He pretends to be wealthy like most of his classmates, but really goes to school during the day and drives a taxi cab at night. One night, at a club he meets Sophia (Alexia Fast), who he hits on, but she ends up leaving with another guy. Abdul (Cliff Curtis), JW's boss at the taxi company, offers JW a side job running cocaine for him.
Jorge (Michael Pena) is on the run after escaping from police custody following a drug bust. He plans on getting revenge on those who snitched on him, including Yugoslavian mob boss Radovan (Rade Serbedzija), and to make enough money with one more cocaine deal to leave the country for good.
Abdul and Jorge decide that they should expand the business after things have been going well. Abdul has heard that Jorge has learned all there is to know about the cocaine business while behind bars.
Jorge begins trying to blackmail Radovan, head of the Yugoslavian mob, who he believes snitched on him. Radovan tells Mrado (Sharlto Copley), an enforcer, to kill Jorge so that he wont give information to any competitors. Abdul offers JW $20,000 to bring Jorge back to him. After noticing Mrado following Jorge, JW follows both of them, only losing sight of Jorge when he gets on the subway.
JW scrambles to drive along the subway line, but ends up across the bridge in Brooklyn with little hope of finding Jorge. He pulls over and happens to see Mrado's car parked near a park. When JW enters the park, he finds Mrado savagely beating Jorge. JW sets off Mrado's car alarm to distract him. Jorge runs off into darkness of the park. Mrado begins searching for Jorge. JW takes a badly wounded Jorge back to his college dorm. Abdul visits JW and Jorge and helps clean Jorge up. Abdul offers JW $1000 a day to keep Jorge in his dorm room.
At a party, JW meets Sophia again. He learns that the guy she left the club with is her on and off boyfriend Carl (Glen Powell). JW learns that Carl's farther's investment firm is in serious trouble and Carl may not be able to afford his extravagant lifestyle anymore.
Abdul tells JW that they need to figure out how to launder their profits as they grow. JW proposes that they buy shares of Carl's father's failing firm, giving it a stimulus that would not only save the business but immediately increase the price of the shares, making it more profitable. JW acts as the front man for Abdulkarim's cocaine syndicate as they attempt to purchase the investment firm. Though Carl's father (Matthew Modine) has reservations, he eventually relents and accepts the deal.
Jorge advises JW that he is unilkely to see any of the money promised by Abdul. JW visits Abdul in his hideout and, while talking to Abdul, realizes that Jorge is right. Mrado returns home to check on his eight-year-old daughter and wife. He finds his wife strung out on drugs and nobody around to take care of his daughter, so he takes her with him.
Mrado is waiting with his daughter at JW's new apartment and offers JW $2 million for his assistance in raiding a huge drug shipment Abdul has coming in. JW agrees on the understanding that no one will get hurt. Mrado takes his daughter to his mother's house and tells her that he'll call her soon.
Later, the drugs arrive and Jorge and Abdul's men start repackaging the drugs in a warehouse. JW assists Mrado and one of his friends in entering the warehouse. A firefight occurs and one of Abdul's men is seriously wounded right away. Jorge realizes that JW has doublecrossed them. Meanwhile, Radovan has tipped off the police to report the drug delivery. JW and Jorge escape to the rooftop and eventually get to a car. Mrado's friend is seriously wounded, but holds off the others just long enough to allow Mrado to escape. As Mrado runs from an alley, he is hit and seriously injured by the car with Jorge and JW in it. JW is angry with Mrado, who had promised him that no one would get hurt. JW shoots Mrado. JW then fires at the cops closing in. Jorge speeds off in the car. JW surrenders to the police. Mrado is taken away by an ambulance and calls his daughter on the way to the hospital. Jorge drives off towards Canada.
JW is visited by Sophia in prison. She asks him is he cares for her, but he doesn't answer.
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