This movie is about the Hatton Garden Jewel heist. It is a true story and boasts a star studded cast including Michael Caine, Michael Gambon, Tom Courtenay, Charlie Cox, Jim Broadbent and Ray Winstone. When we left the cinema we had a long debate as to who we think really orchestrated this heist but we are still undecided and that is why we would happily go and see this movie again.
A crew of old guys attempt to rob a jewellery safe over the Easter bank holiday weekend. They forget to do things such as cover their faces from cameras, stay awake whilst keeping watch, disable all the alarms or even just get the basics correct but somehow they manage to come out of it with more or less everything that they were after. All but the young guy Basil (Charlie Cox) were caught on camera and identified and all who were caught were also ordered to pay back more money than they actually managed to get away with. Some of the money was never recovered and that is a little scary as it means that something like £2 million is still hidden in the world.This movie is like 'The Italian Job'. It's as funny and along the same lines but with a few more moments where you sit there wondering how the hell they actually managed to pull it off.
King of Thieves, is a very enjoyable movie. Jim Broadbent was the standout performer but they were all good. Broadbent is an underrated actor, as proven by his performance in this. At times he scared me a little and at other times I just wondered where this performance even came from. The moral of the story is, do your homework, avoid cameras, go in disguise, ditch your cars and don't use your bus pass. There were other reasons as to why so many of them got caught but these are the main ones and ones that I like to think that anyone out there in the business now would consider to be common sense.
This is probably the best film to be released in the UK this September.
