King of Thieves

I watched this movie at home on DVD from my local library. The cast features several of the best older British actors.

If you look up the 2015 Great Hatton Garden heist you will see that this movie pretty closely portrays what happened. The average age of the perpetrators was 69. The first half of the movie is for planning and carrying out the heist, over an Easter weekend. The second half is the surveillance that eventually identified them and allowed their capture.

Not a great movie but an interesting one, based on real people and real events.

No, there are no big car chases, or explosions. No fancy lasers, or big combat scenes. However, it is a fun story of aging burglars looking to score their final hurrah, portrayed by a slew of veteran actors who still have the skills to go from dottering elder to angry thug. Loved the use of the clips from their previous films as flashbacks. It was a refreshing change from CGI or Photoshop aging.

Yet another account of the 2015 Hatton Garden robbery that was pulled off by a bunch of geriatric career criminals, and which seems to hold a strange fascination for filmmakers and audiences alike. This one benefits from a stellar British cast (Caine, Winstone, Broadbent, Courteney, Gambon, Whitehouse) and its decision to focus on the disintegration of the gang's initial cameraderie almost as soon as the heist is underway rather than playing safe with unrealistic feel-good vibes. The real gang were unpleasant men, and to portray them as anything else would be a whitewash. Caine is finally showing his age (he's barely seen moving throughout) but still delivers, as do the rest of the veteran players.

The film is inspired from the true story of the Hatton Garden heist (thus, the script is already half-written) and the main actors are usually excellent. Despite this excellent a priori, the global result is bland, dull and devoid of passion. So boring that I was almost sleepy. As a synthesis: frustrating!

"King of Thieves" is a Biography - Crime movie in which we watch a heist in London's jewelry district that is based on the Hatton Garden diamond heist that occurred in April 2015.

I enjoyed this movie because it is based on a true story, the plot was very interesting and there were some plot twists that made it even more interesting. The interpretations of Michael Caine who played as Brian Reader, Jim Broadbent who played as Terry Perkins, Charlie Cox who played as Basil, Ray Winstone who played as Danny Jones and Tom Courtenay who played as Kenny Collins were very good and their combination worked very well. The direction which was made by James Marsh was good and he presented the story in a very good way while he presented his main characters well enough to understand them and follow the story. In conclusion, I have to say that "King of Thieves" is an interesting movie and I highly recommend you to watch it.