I liked the motivation of the heist leader--the idea that the vault contained treasure that had been taken from him and was rightfully his. That was nice.
The old and ingenious mechanism at the center of the vault was also an original plot element--even if it was ridiculously easy to access.
Yes, the world's most secure vault seemed. . . Less than secure. But I was willing to overlook that. Most heist movies are less than fully believable.
But you know where they finally lost me? It was about three quarters of the way through the movie, the day of the big heist, where in order to get to where they need to go, the characters must do the thing that is by now so cliché that I thought that it would have been banned from every script written since 1970.
That's right, they crawled through the air ducts. By now, doesn't everyone know that they don't make air ducts big enough for a man to crawl through (especially in the world's most secure bank) and they're far too flimsy to support the weight of an adult anyway?
I don't mind a few moments that stretch credulity. But I do mind hoary old clichés that haven't been believable for 50 years, now.
The old and ingenious mechanism at the center of the vault was also an original plot element--even if it was ridiculously easy to access.
Yes, the world's most secure vault seemed. . . Less than secure. But I was willing to overlook that. Most heist movies are less than fully believable.
But you know where they finally lost me? It was about three quarters of the way through the movie, the day of the big heist, where in order to get to where they need to go, the characters must do the thing that is by now so cliché that I thought that it would have been banned from every script written since 1970.
That's right, they crawled through the air ducts. By now, doesn't everyone know that they don't make air ducts big enough for a man to crawl through (especially in the world's most secure bank) and they're far too flimsy to support the weight of an adult anyway?
I don't mind a few moments that stretch credulity. But I do mind hoary old clichés that haven't been believable for 50 years, now.