King of Thieves: A Review

26th January, 2019.

Right … 

as much as I like the current version of iMovie … ?

And Mojave … ?

I think I’m in a bind … 

As it’s taken about ten minutes to render the video in that intro.

I’m not exactly a happy bunny.

After all, that’s a lot of time … when you consider that iMovie had been doing those renders in about half that time.

At most.



This possibly means I need radical action, here.

Switching on my old Mac, and seeing what I can do.

At any rate … ?

That’s something I’ll have to concentrate on, another time.

Whilst I wait for any iMovie or Mojave updates.

~≈§≈~

At ANY rate … ?

At any rate, it’s a quiet Saturday night.

And … ?



Well, I’m tempted to do several things … several sweaty things … several sweaty things that, unfortunately, involved either money or company … 

A movie it is, then … !

And, yes: I had just enough cash in my iTunes account to get … 

King of Thieves.

~≈§≈~

Based on the Hatton Garden job of 2015, King of Thieves opens with long term villain, Brian Reader (Michael Caine) in his home based workshop: melting down gold from a previous job, into bullion.

Then, not long afterwards … ?   His wife, Anne (Francesca Annis) dies.

At the funeral?

Lynne is lionised … 

But some old friends of Brian’s — Basil, Danny, Terry, John and Carl (Charlie Cox, Ray Winstone*, Jim Broadbent, Tom Courteney and Paul Whitehouse.) — start talking.

About how full the vaults are in Hatton Gardens.

And abandoned those vault are going to be, over the Easter holidays … 

Tempting … ?

Oh, yes …

~≈§≈~

Now … 



Good … ?

Bad … ?

Indifferent … ?

Actually, very good.

OK, there’s been many heist jobs, over the years.

Many of which I’ll confess to not having seen.

But?

King of Thieves comes with an all star cast: and that amount of talent shows.

We have an emotional range going from the sheer menace of Ray Winstone’s Danny, and Jim Broadbent’s Terry, to the father and son style relationship between Caine and Cox, Tom Courtney’s upper class twittery … 

A plot that romps along at a lively pace … going from plan to heist to betrayal to arrest and a pace that made one hundred and seven minutes fly past … 

And a central character — played by Caine — that certainly kept me riveted.

Frankly?

The King of Thieves is a winner!

The King of Thieves
★★★★

*        Possibly the most menacing man in Hollywood, today.