The Hatton Garden Job (2017)
(One Last Heist)
Country: GB
Technical: col 93m
Director: Ronnie Thompson
Cast: Matthew Goode, Phil Daniels, Larry Lamb, Joely Richardson
Synopsis:
Four old lags and a young con determined not to go down the same route execute a daring robbery in the Hatton Garden district of London.
Review:
The second of three caper movies in as many years devoted to the 2015 Hatton Garden jewel heist, this by-numbers affair lays the long odds on casting Goode as a cockney wide boy (he actually gets the accent okay but never looks right). It all looks and sounds very much like a Guy Ritchie effort, but without a smart script, and no amount of slow-mo, jump cuts or wipes can conceal sloppy storytelling when you see it. The next shout at it, King of Thieves, went for the casting angle, but truth is stranger than fiction, they say, and the events resisted all attempts to inject mythos, however much tweaking they underwent.
(One Last Heist)
Country: GB
Technical: col 93m
Director: Ronnie Thompson
Cast: Matthew Goode, Phil Daniels, Larry Lamb, Joely Richardson
Synopsis:
Four old lags and a young con determined not to go down the same route execute a daring robbery in the Hatton Garden district of London.
Review:
The second of three caper movies in as many years devoted to the 2015 Hatton Garden jewel heist, this by-numbers affair lays the long odds on casting Goode as a cockney wide boy (he actually gets the accent okay but never looks right). It all looks and sounds very much like a Guy Ritchie effort, but without a smart script, and no amount of slow-mo, jump cuts or wipes can conceal sloppy storytelling when you see it. The next shout at it, King of Thieves, went for the casting angle, but truth is stranger than fiction, they say, and the events resisted all attempts to inject mythos, however much tweaking they underwent.
(One Last Heist)
Country: GB
Technical: col 93m
Director: Ronnie Thompson
Cast: Matthew Goode, Phil Daniels, Larry Lamb, Joely Richardson
Synopsis:
Four old lags and a young con determined not to go down the same route execute a daring robbery in the Hatton Garden district of London.
Review:
The second of three caper movies in as many years devoted to the 2015 Hatton Garden jewel heist, this by-numbers affair lays the long odds on casting Goode as a cockney wide boy (he actually gets the accent okay but never looks right). It all looks and sounds very much like a Guy Ritchie effort, but without a smart script, and no amount of slow-mo, jump cuts or wipes can conceal sloppy storytelling when you see it. The next shout at it, King of Thieves, went for the casting angle, but truth is stranger than fiction, they say, and the events resisted all attempts to inject mythos, however much tweaking they underwent.