Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Jason Statham | ... | Terry Leather | |
Saffron Burrows | ... | Martine Love | |
Stephen Campbell Moore | ... | Kevin Swain | |
Daniel Mays | ... | Dave Shilling | |
James Faulkner | ... | Guy Singer | |
Alki David | ... | Bambas | |
Michael Jibson | ... | Eddie Burton | |
Georgia Taylor | ... | Ingrid Burton | |
Richard Lintern | ... | Tim Everett | |
Peter Bowles | ... | Miles Urquart | |
Alistair Petrie | ... | Philip Lisle | |
Hattie Morahan | ... | Gale Benson | |
Julian Lewis Jones | ... | Snow | |
Andrew Brooke | ... | Quinn | |
Rupert Frazer | ... | Lord Drysdale (as Rupert Fraser) |
Business is slow for Terry Leather, a London car dealer, married with children. He's an artful dodger, so Martine, a former model with a thing for him, brings him her scheme: a bank's alarm is off for a couple weeks, so let's tunnel into the vault. He assembles a team, not realizing her real goal is a safe-deposit box with compromising photos of a royal: she needs the photos to trade for avoiding a jail sentence - and MI-5, or is it MI-6, is pulling the strings two steps removed. A Trinidadian thug, a high-end bordello owner, and a pornographer also have things stored in the vault, so the break-in threatens many a powerful personage. Is there any way these amateurs can pull it off? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
I also saw this film at an advance screening. I don't normally watch any of the trailers before going, so tend to go in with an open mind. I was very pleasantly surprised, and while it perhaps won't win any Oscars, I thought it was well acted in the main with some faces you'll recognise. It might not have massive appeal outside the UK, however it is a good (based on fact) story. I'm not a massive fan of 70's music, but it wouldn't have done any harm to have a bit more in the background just to give it more of a seventies feel about it. The general mood of the film was good and for me seemed to set the scene well, without going overboard with sex or violence. On the whole, it's well worth a visit, even if you have never lived in that era.