For the first 10 minutes of thriller Solid Rock Trust, we are never sure who exactly Maddie (Koko Marshall) is as she orchestrates a sophisticated bank heist using several cell phones, her laptop and an array of screens in a shadowy warehouse. Marshall's spot-on impersonations of French, Australian, English, Spanish, and Russian women (and at one point a male Brooklyn cop!) keep us and her accomplices guessing. Then, when the robbery begins to go pear-shaped, Maddy has to think fast to keep herself and her collaborators alive. This is a solid, well-crafted one location thriller that compares favorably to Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs and Steve Knight's Locke. Rick Ives, who writes, directs and edits, keeps the dramatic tension taut, with plenty of plot twists and the film's excellent neo-noir cinematography (Dakota Curtis) perfectly complements Koko Marshall's tour-de-force performance.
Review of Solid Rock Trust
