'One Battle After Another' Revolutionized Car Chases on Film. 'Crime 101' Struggles to Keep Pace

Crime 101 is a wannabe-cerebral crime thriller which has aspirations to be a thinking man’s car chase movie in the style of Bullitt. But director Bart Layton’s second narrative feature, after 2018’s American Animals, pales in the shadow of One Battle After Another, the recent Best Picture winner which quietly revolutionized the language of car chases on film.

Crime 101 Is Unremarkable in Every Way

Crime 101 is a tepid remounting of Heat (1995) starring Chris Hemsworth as a Los Angeles...