![]() The movie's story was progressing too slow for my liking, and it was was increasingly becoming more and more difficult to keep having an interest in the storyline as the story dragged on and on at a painfully slow pace. It does amaze me that the movie was so boring, especially since it had a pretty interesting ensemble of casted actors and actresses, with the likes of even Liam Cunningham and Famke Janssen. ![]() Sure, there were some interesting ideas along the way, but the abundance of writers working on the script were just tripping one another along the way, and it made for a less than mediocre movie experience. So if you enjoy heist movies, there are far better options out there. ![]() This movie had potential, but ended up being just another heist movie, and not an overly great one at that. I felt that the character gallery in the movie was just lacking individual personalities and traits, as everyone was essentially a drone. And it didn't really help much that the characters in the movie failed to reach out and provide me with much of any entertainment. I started to care less and less about the storyline as the movie progressed. "Way Down" (aka "The Vault") was showing promise in the first part of the movie, but it quickly descended into mediocrity and then slipped beyond that. ![]() But I guess too many people working on a single thing can become a hindrance. Santaolalla, Michel Gaztambide and Rowan Athale could collectively managed to churn out such a subpar script. I am sort of amazed that writers Rafa Martínez, Andrés M. Considering other recent movies are far less entertaining this one is highly recommended. In brief is well crafter heist movie with some original elements and able to keep your interest for almost two hours. The end is well and open joke but satisfying. The third act when the heist start is very well executed and both sides match their intelligence and mistakes. The first part of the movie where information is being collected requires some suspension of disbelief but still works. The script is adjusted to root for the thieves so they have to be the "GOOD GUYS" of course. Considering how good they are and that is an Spanish production they probable deserved more important roles (specially Tosar) but still they get a decent screen time and their brief moments. On the Spanish side we the always excellent Jose Coronado (as the bank security chief ) and Luis Tosar as the get anything man. There are some other English speaking characters involved a love interest (Astrid Bergès-Frisbey as Lorraine, quite good), a former special units (Sam Riley) and an MI6 shady operative (played by Famke Janssen). In order to get that pieces back, he lures Thom (Freddie Highmore, a little static but still charismatic) a young nerd but very smart engineer still trying to save the world and more interested in adventures than money. He knows within that load there is are pieces that point to a bigger treasure. Walther owns a wreck recovery company whose latest recovered load was sized by the Spanish government and stored in that bank. Robbing Banco de Espana has been already made on a NETFLIX series and while the challenges are similar, the development is quite faster here (less than to hours) some good suspense moments. It is scripted and acted in such a way to create tension at a number of places, the viewer wonders "How will they get out of this one?" Sort of reminded us of "Mission Impossible." It runs almost 2 hours but it never seemed too long. My wife and I watched it at home on DVD from our public library. Being basically a good, honest guy his only attraction to the job was to solve the impossible. His job would be to figure out the impossible. Freddie Highmore (about 28), who also produced, plays a 22-yr-old college graduate who already had established a reputation for coming up with genius ideas. The biggest problem was figuring out the heist. One piece was of particular interest and the heist in question was planned to recover it. The movie starts with a British ocean exploratory team finding loot on a Spanish ship that sank in 1645, but Spanish authorities intercept them on open water. ![]() It s set during the 2010 soccer World Cup where Spain beat The Netherlands 1-0 and Spanish crowds were cheering in the streets and watching on a giant TV screen. It is just an entertaining heist movie, the target is an impenetrable bank vault in Madrid. This is the type of movie that, if you wanted to analyze it in detail, you could probably find quite a number of "flaws." But doing that would miss the point entirely. ![]()
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