Tom Hardy and James Gandolfini are Brooklyn bartenders with some very minimal organized crime connections. Well, at least Tom Hardy wants to steer clear of it, though Gandolfini still revels in his glory days of being respected. When the bar gets robbed, the mob expects our guys to get the money back, but the police are also inching closer to all these illegal activities. Meanwhile, Hardy finds an abused puppy in a woman's trash, and things go from promising to shady real quick.

So far, I've been pretty vague with the plot and I'll leave it at that. It's kind of a slowburner, performance-driven, and basically just a good fuckin' movie. Tom Hardy is cool. James Gandolfini was great. I miss him, and this movie came out a year after his death. Apparently the last movie he dropped before dropping himself, but what a movie it was.

A highlight of the crime challenge. Good shit.