In the official trailer for Caught Stealing, Austin Butler transforms into Hank Thompson, a washed-up former ballplayer whose past glory fades fast as he’s pulled into a violent underground war in 1990s Manhattan. Adapted from Charlie Huston’s cult crime novel, the film is directed by rising stylists Dane Hallett and Patrick Meaney and backed by a trio of scene-stealing co-stars: Zoë Kravitz, Matt Smith, and Evan Rachel Wood.

The trailer kicks off with an act of kindness—taking care of a neighbor’s cat—that quickly unravels into a brutal collision with mobsters, drug fiends, and double-crosses. Butler’s transformation is total: bloodied, unhinged, and barely holding on as he navigates a city pulsing with danger.

With Zoë Kravitz playing a sharp-tongued accomplice and Matt Smith radiating menace as a crooked detective with a bone to pick, the film promises tightly wound tension and midnight-movie swagger. Neon-lit and bathed in grit, Caught Stealing evokes the kinetic madness of Run Lola Run with the bruised masculinity of Taxi Driver and the snarl of Killing Them Softly.