It’s us, the people who paused the Prime Video crime thriller Crime 101 – it’s right in the name! – to Street View snoop on exact highway exits and the film’s many, many Los Angeles locations. Because LA is a character in Crime, just like Chris Hemsworth’s loner jewel thief, Mark Ruffalo’s determined sad sack of a police detective, and Halle Berry’s frustrated seller of high-end insurance policies. And when all those people come together, it’s the same road that drives them there. US Route 101, which runs through the heart of LA when it isn’t stretching up and down the coast for 1,500 miles. In Crime 101, a sense of place is everything.
Written and directed by Bart Layton, from a 2020 novella by Don Winslow, this film about an exacting, nearly nameless criminal caught in a heist gone six kinds of sideways has a lot of cool references
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