The cold open is basically exactly what you say, watching a guy just casually walk into an office building, shim a door with a piece of plastic packaging found in a trash can, show the guy taking a password from under a keyboard and stealing a cookie from a desk, then have him get caught…and present his letter of authorization, smash cut to a debriefing scene where this character is delivering a powerpoint to some executives about how their firewall was pretty good but the server room doors are easy to shim and that their password discipline in the office could be better, but the guards were on point and did a good job catching an intruder.
That’s the intro sequence, the actual story is some BIG company, like a defense contractor or something, hires them, and then it’s a heist movie, they hire some of their buddies who specialize in things, they prepare, we have a scene where the guy who does the gadgets shows off some new gear, like a badge reader built into a messenger bag, just sit on a bench next to the sidewalk and it’ll read the RFID badges of everyone walking down the sidewalk etc. then they start doing surveillance and some funny things happen, culminating in the big scene where one guy runs interference pretending to be a hoodlum in the parking lot distracting the guards while the team wrecks shop inside.
Consider, then: meta meta. The movie uses the actual name and likeness of Raytheon, because some delightful prick put very particular clauses into his contract, and assured them it’d be for conference talks and Youtube videos. Mostly.
Nah play it perfectly straight.
The cold open is basically exactly what you say, watching a guy just casually walk into an office building, shim a door with a piece of plastic packaging found in a trash can, show the guy taking a password from under a keyboard and stealing a cookie from a desk, then have him get caught…and present his letter of authorization, smash cut to a debriefing scene where this character is delivering a powerpoint to some executives about how their firewall was pretty good but the server room doors are easy to shim and that their password discipline in the office could be better, but the guards were on point and did a good job catching an intruder.
That’s the intro sequence, the actual story is some BIG company, like a defense contractor or something, hires them, and then it’s a heist movie, they hire some of their buddies who specialize in things, they prepare, we have a scene where the guy who does the gadgets shows off some new gear, like a badge reader built into a messenger bag, just sit on a bench next to the sidewalk and it’ll read the RFID badges of everyone walking down the sidewalk etc. then they start doing surveillance and some funny things happen, culminating in the big scene where one guy runs interference pretending to be a hoodlum in the parking lot distracting the guards while the team wrecks shop inside.
Consider, then: meta meta. The movie uses the actual name and likeness of Raytheon, because some delightful prick put very particular clauses into his contract, and assured them it’d be for conference talks and Youtube videos. Mostly.