Now that the crew is together, it's time to hurry up and discuss it. Impressions: This fell off a cliff pretty fast. It declares that their first job is going to be robbing a bullet train, and then spends the next fifteen minutes in meetings and explaining the setting. Not even subtly. There's an […]
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