{"id":23091,"date":"2026-05-14T14:37:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T12:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/lifehack-review-old-school-heist-movie-updated-for-the-meme-age\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T14:37:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T12:37:23","slug":"lifehack-review-old-school-heist-movie-updated-for-the-meme-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/lifehack-review-old-school-heist-movie-updated-for-the-meme-age\/","title":{"rendered":"LifeHack review \u2013 old-school heist movie updated for the meme age"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ronan Corrigan levels up a thoroughly beta-tested narrative in this efficiently executed hacker-turned-thief split-screen thriller<\/p>\n

This debut feature from Irish web-and-zeitgeist-surfer Ronan Corrigan continues its producer Timur Bekmambetov\u2019s interest in fashioning entire movies out of virtual space, collaging as it does the screens of phones, laptops and PCs. Narratively, it plays like a web 2.0 update of Iain Softley\u2019s 90s cult film Hackers: a quartet of heavily vaping, tech-savvy gamers decide to take their nightly shitposting to the next level by robbing an obnoxious crypto billionaire (Charlie Creed-Miles), whose motto is \u201cI\u2019m CEO, cunt\u201d. Corrigan\u2019s secret weapon is that his plot points have already been beta-tested offline, so what we\u2019re watching is at source an old-school heist thriller with especially open coding.<\/p>\n

Corrigan does, however, commit far more forcefully than any of his predecessors to this accelerationist digital aesthetic. He casts newish faces with the air of habitual phonecheckers; he establishes their innate restlessness and distractibility in frantically scrolling between tabs; and he pumps the leads\u2019 squabbling banter through the same headset-filter one might strap on to play Call of Duty. Though the script \u2013 co-written by the director with Hope Elliott Kemp \u2013 wisely renames a bluff podcaster as \u201cJoe Brogan\u201d, these frames-within-frames resemble the real thing: the film\u2019s meme game is strong (if that\u2019s any kind of commendation for a motion picture), and there are no Google substitutes called ridiculous things like Search Rhino or InfoBuzz.<\/p>\n

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\nRonan Corrigan levels up a thoroughly beta-tested narrative in this efficiently executed hacker-turned-thief split-screen thriller
\nThis debut feature from Irish web-and-zeitgeist-surfer Ronan Corrigan continues its producer Timur Bekmambetov\u2019s interest in fashioning entire movies out of virtual space, collaging as it does the screens of phones, laptops and PCs. Narratively, it plays like a web 2.0 update of Iain Softley\u2019s 90s cult film Hackers: a quartet of heavily vaping, tech-savvy gamers decide to take their nightly shitposting to the next level by robbing an obnoxious crypto billionaire (Charlie Creed-Miles), whose motto is \u201cI\u2019m CEO, cunt\u201d. Corrigan\u2019s secret weapon is that his plot points have already been beta-tested offline, so what we\u2019re watching is at source an old-school heist thriller with especially open coding.
\nCorrigan does, however, commit far more forcefully than any of his predecessors to this accelerationist digital aesthetic. He casts newish faces with the air of habitual phonecheckers; he establishes their innate restlessness and distractibility in frantically scrolling between tabs; and he pumps the leads\u2019 squabbling banter through the same headset-filter one might strap on to play Call of Duty. Though the script \u2013 co-written by the director with Hope Elliott Kemp \u2013 wisely renames a bluff podcaster as \u201cJoe Brogan\u201d, these frames-within-frames resemble the real thing: the film\u2019s meme game is strong (if that\u2019s any kind of commendation for a motion picture), and there are no Google substitutes called ridiculous things like Search Rhino or InfoBuzz. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ronan Corrigan levels up a thoroughly beta-tested narrative in this efficiently executed hacker-turned-thief split-screen thriller This debut feature from Irish web-and-zeitgeist-surfer Ronan Corrigan continues its producer Timur Bekmambetov\u2019s interest in fashioning entire movies out of virtual space, collaging as it does the screens of phones, laptops and PCs. Narratively, it plays like a web 2.0 …<\/p>\n

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