This is a French heist movie in the tradition of Rififi and Le Cercle Rouge but with a touch of the David Mamets and more advanced technology. It was actually released in France in 2014 and given that it features a gang cutting their way into a vault via tunnels and then crawling through who's to say that the recent perpetrators of the Hatton Garden robbery here in London didn't see it in France and implement some of its ideas. Leading man Yvan Attal, a veteran of 50 films as an actor, 5 as screenwriter and 7 ad director is blessed with the kind of face that can look villainous one day - see Bon Voyage - and thoughtful the next - see his own And They Lived Happily Ever After whilst Berenice Bejo is no stranger to caper movies albeit more tongue- in-cheek - she appeared with Jean Dujardin in the OSS-17 franchise and she and Attal make a good team. On the whole it's a very entertaining entry and should please fans of the genre.
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