Screwed Over (2025): When the Con Goes Sideways, Revenge Is the Only Exit

Trust is a weapon, lies are currency, and payback is always with interest.

Screwed Over (2025) is a slick, sharp-tongued heist thriller with a wicked comedic bite, directed by Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland, Now You See Me). With its blend of fast-talking criminals, double-crosses, and explosive chaos, the film delivers a joyride through the underworld where loyalty is currency—and everyone’s broke.

Set in modern-day Chicago, the story follows a group of professional scammers who finally pull off the impossible: a multi-million dollar digital heist on a corrupt hedge fund. But just as they’re about to disappear into luxury, they’re betrayed by one of their own. The team’s charismatic leader, Juno Hale (Zoë Kravitz), is left for dead, and the money vanishes.

Six months later, Juno returns with a new name, new crew, and one mission: screw them back—twice as hard.

What follows is a kinetic rollercoaster of identity theft, exploding safes, fake deaths, and a revenge scheme so convoluted even the audience isn’t sure who’s playing who. The tone is equal parts Ocean’s Eleven and Gone Girl, mixing style with savagery, laughs with brutality. Every flashback reveals a deeper layer of deception, and no one—not even Juno—is telling the full truth.

Underneath the games, Screwed Over explores the idea of betrayal between people who trust no one to begin with. It asks: what happens when liars get lied to? And when you’ve lost everything, is revenge a second chance—or just another con?

Fleischer keeps the pace tight, the dialogue razor-sharp, and the twists dropping until the very last frame. Nothing is what it seems—and everyone gets what’s coming to them.