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Year: 2008
Runtime: 81 min
Language: English
Director: Andrews Jenkins
In this wildly unpredictable heist thriller, three desperate souls - Jinx, Jessica, and Simon - find themselves in a precarious stalemate inside a bank vault. As alliances blur and motives shift, the audience is kept guessing about who's robbing what, why, and how they'll escape the chaos that ensues when the police close in.
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As Jason “JINX” Taylor struggles futilely to withdraw his last twenty dollars from an ATM, he encounters a frustrating roadblock—the transaction fee threatens to leave him broke. His irritation mounts as he becomes increasingly aware of the various hidden charges that are choking him financially. Complicating matters further, he finds himself trapped inside a bank vault with the mysterious and striking Jessica, her wrists shackled by handcuffs and her mouth silenced by duct tape. However, it quickly becomes evident that what initially appears to be a simple hostage scenario is actually a masterfully planned bank heist, with Jessica—rather than Jinx—playing the role of the orchestrator.
Working alongside Simon, she has gathered an armed crew to execute the robbery, yet Jinx’s unintentional interference sends the entire scheme spiraling into disorder, leaving both him and Jessica inadvertently confined within the vault’s confines.
As the story unfolds, Jinx reaches out to Simon via cellphone, only to learn that he isn’t the cunning mastermind behind the heist at all. Instead, Jessica holds the critical key to their escape—a unique computer code that is exclusively within her knowledge. Simon’s agitation escalates as he struggles to manipulate Jinx into opening the vault, thereby allowing the crew access to the bank’s safe deposit boxes. Meanwhile, Officer DeGepse and his team encircle the bank, equally perplexed by the emerging stalemate.
Caught in this intricate web of manipulation, Jinx begins to forge an unexpected connection with Jessica—they both find themselves as mere pawns in a much larger game, targeted by corporations that value profit over humanity. This newfound alliance inspires them to devise a plan to escape, just as Nick, the true architect of the heist, calls in with demands for their involvement. With Simon losing his cool and DeGepse’s tolerance wearing thin, Jinx skillfully operates between both parties, striking a deal with Nick: he will provide the PIN to the skimmed funds—controlled by him and Jessica—in exchange for their release.
As the intensity heightens during the climax of the standoff, Jinx and Jessica make a daring move to escape, ultimately joining forces with Nick to secure their portion of the dishonestly acquired fortune. This daring escapade leaves both the law enforcement and the robbers scrambling to put together the pieces left in their wake.
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