In April 2015, the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Company, an underground safe deposit facility in London's Hatton Garden area, was burgled by 4 elderly men. The total stolen may have a value of up to £200 million, the incident has been called the "largest burglary in English legal history." Read more …
The lazily drawn characters are practically indistinguishable, and it's needlessly offensive.
Uniformly likeable leads can't save plotlines heading nowhere, leaving it a film with its fun moments but more frustrating ones, and too little detail to be anything other than forgettable.
There is a hint of old Ealing comedies in Ronnie Thompson’s likeable if very undercharged telling of the story of the 2015 Hatton Garden jewellery/safety deposit box heist.
Matthew Goode and Phil Daniels do their best as toughened crims in a story of the real-life 2015 heist, but they can’t rescue this geezer opera from trite tedium.
Entertaining enough when it focuses on the creaky old-timers but unlike the stolen jewels, it never really sparkles.
All the usual genre cliches are present in this weak slice of geezer-gangster nostalgia.
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