The film centers around "Billy" (Josh Hutcherson), who makes the choice to hold up a gas station where two women, "Melinda" (Tilda Cobham-Harvey) and "Sheila" (Suki Waterhouse), are working. One of the employees is peculiar, quiet, and withdrawn; the other seems more comfortable interacting with men. However, when the robbery unfolds, "Melinda" sees an opportunity to stand up to Billy. What follows occasionally veers…

The narrative structure—beginning with an immediate sequence and then jumping back to the beginning—is something I'm not keen on in films. I feel it occasionally functions acceptably for TV shows or mystery stories, but even those instances are often unsuccessful. In most movies, it comes across as either a lack of confidence that the film could maintain viewer engagement until later action sequences, or an inability…