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Vultural
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A few reviews . . (film or TV)
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30-Dec-2020, 12:41 PM

King Of Thieves - 2018 - 5/10

Another “over the hill” gang rides again.
A quartet of aging geezers, and a young tech geek, eye the impregnable bank fortress.
Vault for stashed wealth, legal and illegal.
Caper film is a meandering stroll through ineptitude.
The gents commit more mistakes than Paddington Bear, without his lucky fortune.
Nothing really new in this, and it is frustrating to view, what proves to be, a foregone conclusion.
Late – quite late – in the film, there is a breathtaking moment as the men march out, infirm, out of step, then scenes of their much younger, swaggering selves, parade by. Only a moment, alas.
Based on the then recent, 2015, Hatton Garden robbery (Losses = £200 million).