The Hatton Garden Job could have been a lot funnier and a lot sharper but it’s still a perfectly fine distraction
The Hatton Garden Job
(15) 91mins
I’m not sure I met one person who didn’t want these guys to get away with the one of biggest heists in British history.
It was so... naff and wonderful wasn’t it?
The thought that a bunch of pensioners could spend days drilling through a concrete wall and the reason no-one caught them red-handed was because it was a Bank Holiday could not BE more British if they’d done it wearing bowler hats, drinking tea and complaining about the weather.
This, the inevitable film adaptation, is exactly as you would imagine it. Nothing more, nothing less. Larry Lamb, Phil Daniels - yup I know what I’m getting.
Whilst all the cast go about their business in the requisite manner, what a shame it is that the rumours of Bill Nighy and Michael Gambon getting involved turned out to be exactly that.
It isn’t apparent how much of this is based on fact. The (confusing) criminal triangle between Joely Richardson’s Hungarian mobster facing off True Blood’s Stephen Moyer is somewhat of an annoyance and borders on cheesy pastiche.
File this somewhere in between Football Factory and Lock Stock (nearer to the former obv).
It gets confused and could probably have been a lot funnier and sharper, but it’s a perfectly fine distraction - although the three other films about the crime in production may not be losing much sleep.
The Hatton Garden Job (15) 91 mins
Rating:★★★☆☆