Wasteland

It may not be immune to the odd Brit thriller clich, but this is an assured, stylish heist thriller from the debut filmmaker.

This British heist picture is familiar but energetic genre filmmaking, more interesting in its particulars than in its overall conception.

The constant spinning of wheels drains the piece of its energy until a final act gets so convoluted that the whole thing falls apart.

A British heist movie that's well deserving of an American audience.

The shallow, derivative and contrived British heist thriller "Wasteland" lives down to its unfortunate name.

To borrow from a term for the gritty, working-class British dramas that this film also nods to, it's a kitchen-sink caper.

A derivative amalgamation of heist genre classics, all the while bearing an excessively smug grin.

We're decades past the Kitchen Sink school, this kitchen's sunk.

The end result is a slick, satisfying debut.

The sarcastic banter and male chemistry between Treadaway, an outstanding Iwan Rheon, Gerard Kearns and Matthew Lewis provide as much pleasure as the mechanics of the twisted revenge plot.