Who doesn't like a good thriller? Well, this one had me hooked right off the bat. After a punk kid gets robbed, he visits a local convenience store. There an older gentleman wins the lottery and shouts about it. Well, that's just an open invitation to get robbed. And that's exactly what happens.

The young man puts on a mask and pulls a gun on the lottery winner. After a scuffle, the winner and a cop get shot. This is where the intrigue begins. The hood realizes he can't just kill everybody, so the bargaining starts. The store's owner and a young couple negotiate splitting the money.

It keeps getting more and more involved. All the while, the tension gets cranked up to 11! This movie was so intense, I had twitch something lighter before I hit the hay. It was that edgy. Now I'm not saying it was a great film by any means. But if you're looking for an intense thriller, give it a go!

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After looking for so long to n the past several years to find a movie without a pretentious script, more dedicated to a bias message or just bad writing I was delighted to see this pop up. Yes it involved cops being bad but at least it had some logic to it. With neither characters being utterly good or bad, they are just human. This movie felt like they were following a story and a vision instead of an agenda, as that seems to be the norm nowadays. And to me it's always impressive if you can film a whole movie in the same location and keep the story entertaining and believable. There were some plot holes but nothing that bothered me at all and that is exactly what is so hard to find. Congratulations to the writers and producers for not giving in to the mainstream.

Drug dealer Sterling (Angus Cloud) gets rolled. He is one of the patrons in a convenience store when a customer discovers that he won the $156 million lottery jackpot. Sterling decides to steal the ticket and all heck brings loose.

I don't watch Euphoria, but I do remember Angus Cloud's death. There is a powerful unstable energy about him. He is very cinematic and magnetic. I completely buy his impulsiveness and recklessness. He also has an endearing quality and is able maintain the rooting interest. I like the first half. Sterling has no plan with the robbery and the story flows from that. I assume that the rest of the people are partly playing Sterling to stay alive. Whatever plans they come up with is to appease Sterling. That part works. The problem is that there is no perfect crime in this after the messy killing. That doesn't matter since Sterling is not the sharpest mind. The crooked cops are a big problem. They would never get away with it. Sterling can have no plan. If the cops have no good plan, then the movie suffers and it's bad writing. This is half-good. The second half loses me.