King of Thieves (2018)
Country: GB/BEL/US/GER/FR
Technical: col/2.35:1 108m
Director: James Marsh
Cast: Michael Caine, Tom Courtenay, Jim Broadbent, Ray Winstone, Charlie Cox, Michael Gambon, Francesca Annis
Synopsis:
Five ageing ex-cons and an alarm technician collude to rob the Hatton Garden safe depository over the Easter weekend. They reckon without their own petty-mindedness and the existence of security cameras.
Review:
Dire honour-among-thieves slanging match, none the more fulfilling for being based on a true crime. There are half-hearted attempts to evoke the capers of the sixties, capitalising on the Last Orders-style casting coup, but these scarcely redound to its credit. The robbery itself is a suspense-less, broken-backed sequence taking place over two nights; the split and unravelling stages of the story are played unconvincingly for laughs, with blokeish incontinence references to the fore, but like all its colourful threats of violence, it is just so much piss and wind.
Country: GB/BEL/US/GER/FR
Technical: col/2.35:1 108m
Director: James Marsh
Cast: Michael Caine, Tom Courtenay, Jim Broadbent, Ray Winstone, Charlie Cox, Michael Gambon, Francesca Annis
Synopsis:
Five ageing ex-cons and an alarm technician collude to rob the Hatton Garden safe depository over the Easter weekend. They reckon without their own petty-mindedness and the existence of security cameras.
Review:
Dire honour-among-thieves slanging match, none the more fulfilling for being based on a true crime. There are half-hearted attempts to evoke the capers of the sixties, capitalising on the Last Orders-style casting coup, but these scarcely redound to its credit. The robbery itself is a suspense-less, broken-backed sequence taking place over two nights; the split and unravelling stages of the story are played unconvincingly for laughs, with blokeish incontinence references to the fore, but like all its colourful threats of violence, it is just so much piss and wind.
Country: GB/BEL/US/GER/FR
Technical: col/2.35:1 108m
Director: James Marsh
Cast: Michael Caine, Tom Courtenay, Jim Broadbent, Ray Winstone, Charlie Cox, Michael Gambon, Francesca Annis
Synopsis:
Five ageing ex-cons and an alarm technician collude to rob the Hatton Garden safe depository over the Easter weekend. They reckon without their own petty-mindedness and the existence of security cameras.
Review:
Dire honour-among-thieves slanging match, none the more fulfilling for being based on a true crime. There are half-hearted attempts to evoke the capers of the sixties, capitalising on the Last Orders-style casting coup, but these scarcely redound to its credit. The robbery itself is a suspense-less, broken-backed sequence taking place over two nights; the split and unravelling stages of the story are played unconvincingly for laughs, with blokeish incontinence references to the fore, but like all its colourful threats of violence, it is just so much piss and wind.