King of Thieves

King of Thieves

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  • Genre: Crime, Drama
  • Release Date: 2018-09-04
  • Runtime: 108 minutes
  • : 5.535
  • Production Company: Working Title Films
  • Production Country: United Kingdom, Belgium, France
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5.535/10
5.535
From 437 Ratings

Description

London, England, April 2015. Brian Reader, a retired thief, gathers an unlikely gang of burglars to perpetrate the biggest and boldest heist in British history. The thieves assault the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Company and escape with millions in goods and money. But soon the cracks between the gang members begin to appear when they discuss how to share the loot.

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  • CinemaSerf

    6
    By CinemaSerf
    Based on a real and pretty daring robbery, this tells the story of a group of disgruntled old codgers who disabled the state of the art security systems in London’s Hatton Garden then burrowed their way into a room full of safety deposit boxes where they promptly filled their boots. It’s initially a team effort between the young tech wizard “Basil” (Charlie Cox) and the wily, recently widowed, Reader (Sir Michael Caine). They realise that to get the job done, they have to get some of his equally aged pals out of retirement and so assemble a cracking (or creaking) team and meticulously plan their operation. What is quite clear from this stage of the film is that none of these people particularly like the other. Terry (Jim Broadbent) and Reader have history and Kenny (Sir Tom Courtenay), Danny (Ray Winstone) and Carl (Paul Woodhouse) wouldn’t trust each other with their milk money. Like most heist films, the best fun for me is always at the planning stage, and barring a few hitches with a burglar alarm, a security guard and an hungry fox things go remarkable smoothly. It’s the aftermath that sees their plan and the film begin to unravel. Despite an amiable effort from Sir Michael Gambon as their dipso fence Billy “the Fish”, their internecine plotting and counterplotting actually becomes quite tedious, vulgar and what started out as one of those stories where you quite liked the idea ended up, for me anyway, with them deserving whatever the very rushed denouement could provide. Indeed, it really just peters out into a damp squib at the close that even this formidable combination of theatrical and cinematic knights can’t really enliven. Cox looks like he is enjoying his time with these luminaries, but he might be in a bit of a minority. Pity, it had potential, but it’s a bit disappointing.

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