2018 · crime · drama · heist
King of Thieves
Directed by James Marsh1h 48m2018
London, England, April 2015. Brian Reader, a retired thief, gathers an unlikely gang of burglars to perpetrate the biggest and boldest heist in British history. The thieves assault the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Company and escape with millions in goods and money. But soon the cracks between the gang members begin to appear when they discuss how to share the loot.
Our read: King of Thieves (2018) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded crime · drama · heist entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, gentle crime / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
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