[1] It is a found footage crime comedy drama in which a hitman (Ryan), is filmed as he goes about his daily life as a career criminal.
A television series serialisation of the film, Mr Inbetween, aired on FX for 26 episodes across three seasons from 2018 to 2021, with Ryan reprising his role.
Through the lens of a documentary, criminally amoral film student Massimo "Max" Totti follows the escapades of Ray Shoesmith, a Melbourne underworld hitman who has hired him to document his life.
Max films Ray meet with his friend Benny to convince him to leave the county to avoid his imminent execution for "talking to the cops", paying him to travel to Sydney and "set up" there.
On being asked, Ray continues to tell Max about how he became a hitman – having been in the army for eight years before being discharged for having "a bit of a problem" with a superior officer – before going into detail on how he makes his targets "disappear" and only be considered missing persons, leading to no murder investigations being opened into their deaths, and how he believes making the drug trade legal would probably reduce the amount of crime in Australia by 75%.
After a time, while begging not to be killed, Tony reveals he has a stash of $80,000 he kept from Freddy, offering to show Ray where to dig it up in exchange for not being executed.
After Max points out it couldn't hurt to check, Ray agrees to drive across the country with Tony to where the money is buried.
[3] A television spinoff based on the Ray Shoesmith character premiered on FX in 2018 titled Mr Inbetween.