The Hatton Garden Job (2017)

The Hatton Garden Job: Directed by David Beton. With Matthew Goode, Phil Daniels, Larry Lamb, Clive Russell. A criminal gang of old timers attempt to pull off the largest burglary in English history at an underground safe deposit facility with an estimated value of £200 million.

“Itu0026#39;s not clear exactly how closely u0026#39;The Hatton Garden Job (2017)u0026#39; sticks to the true events it is based upon, given that it spends time dubiously setting up Hungarian gangsters and extortion-minded dirty cops as a danger to the composite character that serves as the protagonist. As such, it occupies the space between a straight realistic retelling and and an embellished crime caper while taking only the most boring elements of each. Though the editing and on-the-nose narration are clearly trying to recreate that u0026#39;Guy Ritchieu0026#39; kind of style – and doing it poorly at that, even they canu0026#39;t liven up what eventually amounts to four blokes sat in a room while a drill bores through a wall and the flick bores the audience. On top of that, the characters are cardboard cut-outs without any real personality or motivation and the movie opts not to explore the moral questions raised by such an obviously criminal act – which is actually overtly glamorised here. 5/10”