This review is based on a screening from the Sundance Film Festival. At turns nerve-wracking and gradually riveting, The Weight is incredibly self-assured in its straightforward plot, following a group of prisoners tasked with stealing gold in exchange for their freedom. These are the beginnings of not only the movie’s larger plot but the streamlined political backdrop against which the characters wrestle. The Weight moves with furious focus and rollicking intensity. It never wavers from its characters or their political and historical purviews, and makes its unlikely heroes look phenomenally cool.