A simple premise, and it's not bad. Usually these stories are pretty good. They aren't great movies, worthy of many viewings, but they keep the audience entertained and tense through their running time. This could have been a pretty standard one, but the ending is a bit weak.
We never learn anything about the villain in this movie, except that he wears a parka, and that he has planned his actions very carefully.
On the flip side, we learn far too much about the protagonists. Mostly, that they're really not that bright. They don't seem to grasp that there's a camera mounted right above the ATM. They don't come to the obvious conclusion that the killer is avoiding being seen on camera. (Somehow, this is the big reveal at the end. Who cares? It's obvious to anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of how ATMs work!)
The only other reveal at the end is this bizarre idea that the survivor at the ATM is framed for other people who died. The problem is… this doesn't make any sense. Two people were killed outside the ATM. In both cases, it would be easy to show that this person was inside the ATM the entire time.
The short version is that this is a movie that could have been a decent thriller, but instead of polishing the script a bit further, they opted to leave it unfinished.
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