BY NANCY R. MANDELL
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM
MOVIE REVIEW
“ATM” may not be the best movie around (and since it’s currently playing in only one Manhattan theatre, it’s not yet really “around”), but if you’re craving a taut, claustrophobic thriller set on a freezing near-Christmas eve this Easter weekend, it’s a good choice.
The debut feature of former film student and director David Brooks puts three familiar young Wall Street types in a freestanding, glass-enclosed ATM on the outskirts of an empty shopping mall parking lot—like a ship adrift in an ocean. There the two young men— David, played by ‘The Hurt Locker’s” Brian Geraghty and Corey, Josh Peck of “The Wackness”— and their co-worker, Emily (Alice Eve, the dreamgirl in “She’s Out of My League”) find themselves stranded, threatened and virtually imprisoned by a mysterious figure outside whose fur-trimmed hood hides his identity. The three have no idea who this man is, or why he is there, but it soon becomes clear that he will kill anyone who interferes with his plan to menace them. And probably kill them all as well.
