I consider myself a die hard heist movie lover, and this film is, for me, one of the best ever made. And I know what I am talking about. I have watched thousand of them in my life, since the early seventies.
This movie is based on actual events. It's a sort of mixup between semi documentary and classic film. The tale of a large group of professional robbers fully equipped as a SWAT team, who pull a mammoth bank heist right in the middle of a major town.
I was astonished by the pace, filming, editing and acting of this fantastic action, thriller and crime flick. Of course, there is not study of characters here. But I don't care. You're literally stuck to your seat from the beginning to the very end. A very realistc story, that the Hollywood studios would not have made in such a way. Maybe not worse, but just different...
I put it at the same scale as HEAT.
I am also surprised that the robbers did not use explosives to blast the bulletproof bank window, or the vault armored fence, that prevented them to take the tons of bank notes we saw at the beginning of the films, with the bank clerks talking about their private lives just around, as if they were in a bakery...
This movie is based on actual events. It's a sort of mixup between semi documentary and classic film. The tale of a large group of professional robbers fully equipped as a SWAT team, who pull a mammoth bank heist right in the middle of a major town.
I was astonished by the pace, filming, editing and acting of this fantastic action, thriller and crime flick. Of course, there is not study of characters here. But I don't care. You're literally stuck to your seat from the beginning to the very end. A very realistc story, that the Hollywood studios would not have made in such a way. Maybe not worse, but just different...
I put it at the same scale as HEAT.
I am also surprised that the robbers did not use explosives to blast the bulletproof bank window, or the vault armored fence, that prevented them to take the tons of bank notes we saw at the beginning of the films, with the bank clerks talking about their private lives just around, as if they were in a bakery...