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Crypto (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Crypto' is a 2019 American crime drama thriller film, about money laundering involving cryptocurrency.
The film was directed by John Stalberg Jr. and written by Carlyle Eubank, David Frigerio, and Jeffrey Ingber. It stars Beau Knapp, Alexis Bledel, Luke Hemsworth and Kurt Russell. The film was released on April 12, 2019 in the United States by Lionsgate.
Plot
Martin "Marty" Duran is an anti money laundering (AML) analyst at Omnicorp Bank headquarters in Manhattan. He produces a report showing that a potential client, a $7 billion corporation, has violated AML rules, killing the deal. The CEO wants him fired, but the head of AML, Robin, believes in him and saves himthough he is demoted to a branch in his tiny hometown of Elba, in upstate New York.
He reunites with a childhood friend, Earl, who owns a failing liquor store, but is a computer genius who stays above water by mining cryptocurrency. He has a much less successful reunion with his brother, Caleb, and father, Martin Sr., who work a failing potato farm that is going to be repossessed by Martins bank.
Marty meets Katie, who works at an art gallery, her boss Penelope, and their accountant, Ted.
Marty's AML review of the banks records lead him to investigate the gallery. Earl helps him by hacking various computer banks. Together, they uncover a multi-million dollar money laundering scheme, helping a deadly Russian gang.
Earl, Penelope and Martys predecessor at the branch are killed by Viktor and Nikos, Ted's thugs. Earl had couriered Marty a memory stick with evidence that Robin is facilitating the entire money laundering scheme at Omnicorp. Ted and his thugs hold Martin Sr. hostage to get the evidence, but Marty and Caleb spring a trap on them, supported by Katie and her FBI colleagues, as Marty deduced who she was.
Robin is arrested and Marty starts cryptocurrency mining at the farm, saving their finances, while starting to date Katie.
Cast
Production
Principal photography began on June 15, 2018 in New York City. John Stalberg Jr. directed the film from the original story by Jeffrey Ingber and the screenplay by Carlyle Eubank and David Frigerio, while producers would be Yale Productions' Jordan Yale Levine and Jordan Beckerman along with Frigerio.
Reception
Critical reception was largely negative, with Rotten Tomatoes ranking the film as "rotten" with 5 negative reviews and one positive. Richard Roeper of The Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 3 stars out of 4, stating that 'Crypto' had enough surprising and "offbeat" moments for a marginal recommendation as a "wonderfully convoluted guilty-pleasure". In contrast, Noel Murray of the Los Angeles Times wrote: "The characters all feel like theyve been copied and pasted from hundreds of other movies".
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