When you think that you have caught everything worthwhile in a genre and you can safely throw further excavations, finding a new field for yourself, you stumble upon this.
What is the main advantage of old Hollywood over modern genre crafts? In the recent “Man on the Edge” (a good entertainment movie, by the way) – to the plot-forming scheme “a man stands on the eaves, the negotiator convinces him not to jump” mixed at least heist film and Wrongfully Accused movie. On the one hand, the desire for everyone (or as many viewers as possible), on the other hand, the obvious unwillingness and inability to make a simple movie in one of the proposed genres. In "14 Hours" Hathaway manages to shoot an hour and a half film according to the above scheme without any admixtures of anything, while maintaining a not frail suspense. Moreover, the film makes a rough, but not devoid of a peculiar aesthetic (not Wells and Hitch, of course, but nevertheless), Dassen’s reporting and popular, but surprisingly not annoying Freudianism.
9 out of 10