Four career criminals, two glamorous bank workers and one over-the-hill has-been all happen to be planning a robbery on a London bank on the same day, by sheer coincidence. The two investigating detectives must try and deduce how these seemingly unrelated people came to be in the area and which were responsible for the lifting a priceless emerald.
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Plenty to Like, Plenty to Dislike
Best movie ever!
It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.
There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.
The movie really tries hard. And it checks every box it has to. Still it doesn't feel really like a classic. I didn't feel like I wasted my time though watching this. Still if you have seen a few movies with similar themes, you can see where this is going early on (the time hopping is nice, but has been used quite often too).The actors are good, but the roles they have do not require them to do a lot. There is not that much character depth (although a few touches here and there are nice to see). I have no complaints about the framing/style of the movie, though I guess there are superior movies in those regards too. Just don't expect too much ...
Summary: A notorious gang of robbers known as "The Cowboys" rob a bank that is already been robbed by someone else.Review: Boy, what a mess! Confusing and erratic back flashes, the same scene in the bank shown over and over from different angles and perspectives and a whole lot of unnecessary or unfinished plot strings. Starring John Simm and Philip Glenister, the great Duo from "Life on Mars" this could have been such a great, funny and entertaining movie. I think this movie is meant to be funny as well, but you don't get much of that. Interesting, how 74 minutes can take that long to pass. Boring.Highlight: The Security GuardNotable Actors: John Simm (Doctor Who), Philip Glenister (Life on Mars)
As the other reviews have said, a really peculiar film.A fairly good concept, equally good cast both combined enough to see you through to the end, but it never goes anywhere & very little happens despite the lingering hope that something bigger is around the corner.The big problem is the timeline, it jumped around, the lack of chronology added very little - nothing in some instances & would've been better served in a standard timeline. Scenes were repeated 3, 4 even 5 times over - once or twice with an interesting revelation but mostly not.Other insertions seemed to serve very little. The two female characters plot line never developed at all and I couldn't see the significance of the sole robber being the elder brother of the senior officer.A high 3/10
The core idea of the script has a good and fairly original idea, namely that multiple people attempt to rob the same bank at the same time.Unfortunately, the writer directed his own script and quite simply failed to tell the story in a coherent fashion on the screen. There is nothing particularly to fault about the acting (indeed there's a good cast) or technical aspects of the film, however the jumping back and forwards in the timeline just doesn't work right. Some scenes are repeated with slight variations, unfortunately the variations are so slight that it feels like you're suddenly watching a "+1" TV channel. The director also fails to make us care about (and therefore root for) a particular set of protagonists. The overall feeling at the end of the film is one of 'so what?'.I suspect had the writer allowed someone else to direct his script we might have seen a much, much better movie.
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