Biggest Heist Ever - Der große Bitcoin-Raub

Unlike the other two reviewers as I write this, I found this interesting. However, I was not familiar with the story, unlike the other reviewers. I agree we'd like more information, but I think that information we'd like about the details of the heist is confidential. If you don't know the story, I think it's worth a watch. At a minimum, the eccentricity of the characters is interesting.

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I do not include a synopsis of the film/show -- you can get that anywhere and that does not constitute a meaningful review -- but rather my thoughts and feelings on the film that hopefully will be informative to you in deciding whether to invest 90-180 minutes of your life on it.

My scale: 1-5 decreasing degrees of "terrible", with 5 being "mediocre" 6- OK. Generally held my interest OR had reasonable cast and/or cinematography, might watch it again 7 - Good. My default rating for a movie I liked enough to watch again, but didn't rise to the upper echelons 8- Very good. Would watch again and recommend to others 9- Outstanding. Would watch over and over; top 10% of my ratings 10 - A classic. (Less than 2% receive this rating). For Lifetime Movies for Chicks (LMFC), drop the above scale by 3 notches. A 6 is excellent and 7 almost unattainable.

"Biggest Heist Ever" (12/6/24, 80-min, Netflix) is yet another hurry-up, poorly done Netflix production. This could've and should've been an awesome, highly anticipated exposé but instead it's a high-school level examination of Heather's cringe "RazzleKhan" alter-ego. Razzle-con anyone? This documentary doesn't even detail the actual heist! Oh, there are allusions to it, there's discussion, but it's all circumstantial. There was no detailing of how they did it, the timeline, you know, normal investigative reporting. Pitiful. And worse, towards the end because no one could believe these two social mutants could scheme to pull this off, is that there's some conjecture that Ilya's father, Eugene, was involved but there's no supporting investigation for it! Candidate for worst documentary of 2024.

• Forget bank vaults; this was a cyber heist executed with Hollywood-level precision:
• AI-powered hacking that bypassed "unbreakable" firewalls
• Inside operatives who exploited blind spots in security
• A global money maze that left investigators chasing ghosts
• The thieves' genius exit strategy involving:
• Cryptocurrency dead drops
• Fake identities crafted by deepfake tech
• A trail that literally vanished into the dark web
• How Interpol and ethical hackers raced against time as the stolen funds disappeared in real-time

Chilling Quote: "We didn't rob a bank - we rewrote its code." - Anonymous hacker.

Seriously though, you don't learn ANYTHING beyond some character back story. Not how they did it, not of they had outside help from foreign countries, no intrigue, nothing. The big fbi/cia guys who actually put the whole thing together & made the arrest are like cardboard; no personality, no excitement; dry as toast. Even the "friends" & coworkers know nothing about them, no juicy tidbits. All relationships were superficial at best. The subjects weren't shown to have lived a ridiculously lavish wasteful life. The producers & directors stole 90min of my life to say yep, they plead guilty. Don't waste your time.

This documentary was relatively okay, but in one of the interviews they discuss the ending of Red Dead Redemption 2 ... a huge spoiler! ... with absolutely no spoiler alert. I was about to start playing that game. Immense rage fills me as a result, and so I warn anyone who is considering watching this, proceed at your own risk. But I would say this mediocre documentary is not worth the spoiler.

I didn't meet the minimum character amount for a review so I will just repeat twice ... This documentary contains Red Dead Redemption 2 spoiler.

This documentary contains Red Dead Redemption 2 spoiler.

For emphasis and minimum character requirements.