Netflix's new action movie Collision Course is already being called the next Money Heist
Netflix's new Madrid bank job has the masks and the crisis-era anger of Money Heist, plus one idea the Professor never tried.
Collision Course, released in Spain as Colisión, premiered on Netflix on October 30, 2026. It's the first thriller from Daniel Sánchez Arévalo, a director better known for dramas and comedies such as Netflix's Diecisiete. He co-wrote it with Ramón Campos, whose Bambú Producciones made Velvet and Cable Girls. The cast is Laia Costa, Karra Elejalde, Luis Zahera, Tamar Novas, Álvaro Cervantes and Lluís Homar, and all six have won Goya Awards.
Why everyone is saying Money Heist
The movie hit No. 1 worldwide one day after release, according to FlixPatrol, and topped the charts in 64 countries, including the US, the UK and Spain. The comparison arrived just as fast. CBR called it a "perfect Money Heist replacement," and What's on Netflix pitched its review to anyone "looking for a new heist movie after 'Money Heist'."
The overlap is obvious from the trailer: a Spanish crew in masks, a robbery in the middle of Madrid, and a plan that starts falling apart almost immediately. Money Heist hit the Royal Mint of Spain and then the Bank of Spain, and became one of Netflix's biggest non-English hits ever.
The crisis connection
The deeper link is the money itself. In Money Heist, the Professor justifies printing his own euros by walking Raquel through what the European Central Bank did during the eurozone crisis: €171 billion created out of nothing in 2011, €185 billion in 2012, €145 billion in 2013.
Collision Course is set in 2013, the last year on the Professor's list. Spain has just bailed out its banks, and risky mortgages have led to mass home seizures. The robbers' target is a bank, and for at least one of them, the motive is personal.
Sánchez Arévalo promised "action, suspense, intrigue, bewilderment, twists and pure fun," and said the genre switch was deliberate: "I really wanted to get out of my world."
The one thing Money Heist never tried
Spoilers from here on.
In Money Heist, the police and the robbers start on opposite sides, and Inspector Raquel Murillo crosses over only later. In Collision Course, the robbers are the police. Carla (Costa), her partner Tomás (Novas) and Raúl (Cervantes) are serving officers, and Pedro (Elejalde) is a retired one. The plan is to rob the bank, then run the investigation into their own crime.
The robbery takes about five minutes. They tie up branch manager Ernesto (Zahera), open the safe deposit boxes, and find the one they came for, box 34, empty. Then the getaway car gets hit and flips.
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From there, the film rewinds to the crash and plays it out again and again, and each version is decided by which of the four dies:
- Pedro dies — police identify him from the serial number on his knee prosthesis, and Raúl panics and kills Tomás.
- Raúl dies — Pedro hides the loot in his son's coffin before he's arrested.
- Carla dies — Inspector Luis (Homar) tells Tomás she was pregnant and seeing Raúl, and Tomás shoots Raúl and Pedro.
- Tomás dies — Ernesto turns out to be the architect. He staged the robbery as insurance fraud with his lover, Lola, swapped the gems for fakes, and flies off with the real ones.
Critics who reviewed it mostly agree on what it is. What's on Netflix gave it 2.5 out of 5:
"Heavy on its plot, and sometimes enamored with its twists," What's on Netflix wrote.
Spain's Espinof was warmer, praising its "ritmo siempre fluido y vibrante," an always fluid and vibrant pace. Micropsia called it "this game of deception layered upon deception."
How it ends
The last version goes back to the moment of impact, and this time all four walk away without a scratch. They burn the wrecked car and carjack another. In the back seat, Carla and Raúl trade a look that confirms the affair, and a plan of their own for the diamonds.
Up front, Tomás complains about the smell. Pedro stepped in dog mess on the way out of the vault, and he tells Tomás to get used to it. That footprint is now part of a crime scene that the four of them are about to investigate.
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