King Of Thieves Film Review
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Michael Caine revisits the heist genre with a film based on the real-life Hatton Garden robbery where theives got away with a up to £200 million. This time his plan is a bit more subtle than only...

King Of Thieves Movie Review

King Of Thieves
2018-04-09GMT+010023:00:09246

Reviewed By: Katy Whitton on 04 September, 2018

Overview: Michael Caine revisits the heist genre with a film based on the real-life Hatton Garden robbery where theives got away with a up to £200 million. This time his plan is a bit more subtle than only blowing the bloody doors off!

Genre: Comedy, Crime

UK Release Date: 14-09-2018

Studio: Studio Canal

Director: 
James Marsh
Top-Billed Cast: 
Michael Caine
Charlie Cox
Running Time: 1hr 30 Mins

UK Classification:
Classified 15

15
61101

Katy's Score: 

King Of Thieves is the telling of the true-life Hatton Garden Robbery which took place in April 2015 where a group of “over the hill” thieves made off with up to £200 million in cash, diamonds and other jewels in a clever raid on a vault in London’s Hatton Garden Jewellery district.

There’s an all-star cast in this film – Michael Caine, Jim Broadbent, Paul Whitehouse, Ray Winstone, Michael Gambon and Tom Courtney star as the “old time” criminals who are joined by young “Basil” (Charlie Cox) who enables them to get into the vault and disable the security.

The first two thirds of the film centres around putting the gang together and the heist itself, with the final third showing the aftermath of the robbery, the squabbling that ensues and the police investigation.

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I was a bit surprised to see King Of Thieves come out, after all the well received

Hatton Garden Job

starring the ever-grumpy Larry Lamb was only released a year before in 2017 and covered the robbery in detail.

If you’ve seen The Hatton Garden Job then The King Of Thieves isn’t going to shed any new light on the subject, although I did find the way that the police pieced together the investigation interesting (note to self: when casing a joint don’t do it in your own vehicle – especially if it’s a flashy Mercedes!).

My main issue was that there were 3 women in the film but two of them (playing police officers) never even spoke a line and the wonderful Francesca Annis was only there as a way to keep Michael Caine’s character on the straight-and-narrow. The Hatton Garden Job had Joely Richardson tearing up the scenery as the evil Mafia connection and I think King Of Thieves could have done with a stronger female performance from one of the Police Officers.

If you’ve seen The Hatton Garden Job then I’d give King Of Thieves a miss, but if you haven’t then it’s worth a look if you have a spare hour and a half on a Sunday afternoon.

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