If you ignore the dreadful series of Fockers movies, you'd have to say that anything with Robert De Niro and Edward Norton facing off would be a sure-fire winner. And Stone is.
De Niro plays a prison officer reviewing prisoners up for parole. Edward Norton plays an arsonist looking to get paroled. Norton wants to improve his chances of getting released, so talks his wife (Milla Jovovich) into seducing De Niro and presumably then blackmailing him into signing Norton out.
Even though there are only a couple ways this could've turned out, I was left guessing right to the very end.
There's a back-plot - images of insects caught between window and screen suggesting Mr and Mrs De Niro and/or Mr and Mrs Norton are trapped in their marriages, but that line of misery doesn't get in the way of a good bit of suspense.
Probably a bit slow for some, and certainly too slow to be described as a thriller, but strong, deep, and rewarding.
Just don't let the man sign up for any more Fockers rubbish.
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