Miami Vice… again (on Netflix)

As a general rule, fans of the crime genre tend to greatly appreciate the thrillers well-born about ill-born characters. The loot does, more or less, check in both categories. Initially, it's a story about police officers who seem like consummate professionals until a particular seizure tempts them down the path of corruption because of a confiscated sum of cash that literally throws them off balance. Since everything has its owners, this incident leads them to step into a veritable hornet's nest of criminals: suddenly it's not just about doing the right thing, but about saving their lives from drug traffickers with the mannerisms of big-time businessmen and deadly, ruthless methods.

So much for the despicable characters. Regarding the well-crafted police procedural, The loot It has its ups and downs. The psychological conflict aspect works fairly well, perhaps because of its echoes of classic stories like The treasure of Sierra Madre either thrillers More recent ones also paid for by Netflix, such as Triple Frontier (Look, it also stars Ben Affleck.) It's all very talky, very dark, and perhaps a bit heavy going, but that makes sense: the weight of the story rests on the internal and external debates between allies and antagonists, and on the shadowy operations. Then, the more action-packed part—when the shooting starts, you know—returns to a more conventional film. It's not a bad balance, in any case.