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‘LifeHack’ Review: A Pulse-Pounding Screenlife Heist Film
Timur Bekmambetov’s umpteenth computer screen production 'LifeHack' finds thrilling new dimensions to the digital aesthetic. The film premiered at SXSW.
Traditionally, heist films involve slick, seasoned professionals moving through space, towards one defined target, like the vault in “Ocean’s 11.” However, the age of cryptocurrency and digital wallets allows the debuting Corrigan to flip these expectations on their head, via a tale of four lonely teenagers with something to prove. ), the movie quickly establishes its central relationships, between Kyle and his enterprising childhood friend in America, Petey (James Vinh Scholz); his high-energy comrade, the fellow Englishman Sid (Roman Hayeck-Green); and his American crush Alex (Yasmin Finney), a bright-eyed girl with dour secrets. This leads them to their next big plan: pulling a crypto heist by gathering as much information as they can on tech billionaire and right wing media personality Don Heard (Charlie Creed-Miles), a thinly-veiled Elon Musk stand-in with more of an edge and more dangerous secrets.
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