Good: excellently directed - the film bowled along at a good pace and I never felt as though it was dragging. The acting was perfectly ok, and in fact I quite liked the 'bad cop' over acting of the chief security officer with his tough guy stares at everyone and unnecessary barks into his microphone. People have said Freddie H might have been miscast but I could live with that, he wasn't awful.
Bad - just too many plot holes. Everyone has pointed out the obvious flaw ie how did the bank get the treasure chests into the vault in the first lace. But there were so many others: If the bank knew an attack was coming, why no-one on the roof? Why point all the cameras at the football crowd rather than the bank itself? How stupid is that?
Why station no security goons outside the entrance to the vault? The whole place looked deserted when the 3 heist johnnies made their way through corridors, yet the place was supposed to be on high alert.
Prior to our genius whizzkid coming onto the scene, no one had worked out the secret of the vault, yet the whole 'scales' idea was obvious as soon as you looked at the underneath of it - had no one thought to check that before?
When the two escapees fled down a rope (where did that come from?) from a 3rd floor building, were there absolutely no security staff outside, guarding the entrance to the bank, who would have seen them sliding down a rope?
Why were the police not chasing after Freddie H after having got his face clearly on camera when in the water in the vault? Seems he got away scot free.
I could go on. But the thing that always annoys me most - and it is a shame because the film had been just about keeping above the thin ice until this point - is when characters do totally unrealistic things. So at the end they are in the vault an the scales start to unbalance as the freeze melts. They all know what this means. They have the coins. What do they do? Stand there and have an argument. Then our English spy gets a gun out and does the big reveal. Why then? Couldn't it wait? They all know they will die unless they get out of there damn quick, yet they don't. Lunacy! That kind of thing really frustrates me because it is just STUPID and would not have happened, so you feel cheated. It means the whole final scene is tainted by the knowledge that it was created by the director rather than being what could really have happened.
So good because it was an entertaining watch and well directed. Bad because of the plot holes and that final nonsense at the end.
Bad - just too many plot holes. Everyone has pointed out the obvious flaw ie how did the bank get the treasure chests into the vault in the first lace. But there were so many others: If the bank knew an attack was coming, why no-one on the roof? Why point all the cameras at the football crowd rather than the bank itself? How stupid is that?
Why station no security goons outside the entrance to the vault? The whole place looked deserted when the 3 heist johnnies made their way through corridors, yet the place was supposed to be on high alert.
Prior to our genius whizzkid coming onto the scene, no one had worked out the secret of the vault, yet the whole 'scales' idea was obvious as soon as you looked at the underneath of it - had no one thought to check that before?
When the two escapees fled down a rope (where did that come from?) from a 3rd floor building, were there absolutely no security staff outside, guarding the entrance to the bank, who would have seen them sliding down a rope?
Why were the police not chasing after Freddie H after having got his face clearly on camera when in the water in the vault? Seems he got away scot free.
I could go on. But the thing that always annoys me most - and it is a shame because the film had been just about keeping above the thin ice until this point - is when characters do totally unrealistic things. So at the end they are in the vault an the scales start to unbalance as the freeze melts. They all know what this means. They have the coins. What do they do? Stand there and have an argument. Then our English spy gets a gun out and does the big reveal. Why then? Couldn't it wait? They all know they will die unless they get out of there damn quick, yet they don't. Lunacy! That kind of thing really frustrates me because it is just STUPID and would not have happened, so you feel cheated. It means the whole final scene is tainted by the knowledge that it was created by the director rather than being what could really have happened.
So good because it was an entertaining watch and well directed. Bad because of the plot holes and that final nonsense at the end.
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