Review: 'No Sudden Move' may leave you a little ripped off

“No Sudden Move” is a noir crime flick from Steven Soderbergh and that means plenty of double-crossing and triple-crossing

Curt Goynes, a two-bit criminal just out of jail, needs cash and lands a seemingly easy payday at the beginning of “No Sudden Move.” All he has to do is detain a family in their home at gunpoint for three hours and then he can walk away with $5,000. It's 1954 in Detroit and that sounds like a easy job. Except this is a noir crime flick from director Steven Soderbergh and that means nothing is easy except perhaps some double-crossing, triple-crossing and, befitting an Olympic year, the very difficult quadruple-cross with a twist. Trust no one in “No Sudden Move,” a hard-boiled, ever-expanding con that rises from the ragged streets to the stately boardrooms of conspiratorial Big Auto and the corrupt police precincts of the Motor City. It's sort of a “Chinatown" for Detroit. Soderbergh, as always, has assembled an insane cast, with Don Cheadle as the closest thing to a hero. There's also Brendan Fraser, Benicio Del Toro, Kieran Culkin, David Harbour, Ray Liotta, Bill Duke, Jon Hamm and Matt Damon. But this is no “Ocean's Eleven” — it's as dour and sluggish and deliberative as Soderbergh's other crime caper franchise is joyfully slick and stylish.