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2.5/4
CHUNKS!
Matthew Brady - wrote on 11/11/2019
"I'll have you for chunks!"
'King of Thieves' is a slow burn that builds up to nothing. Not to say it doesn't have any entertaining moments despite a sluggish pace.
I mean, what a cast! Micheal Caine, Jim Broadbent, Tom Courtenay, Ray Winstone, and Paul Whitehouse. Centering around a bank heist? Now that sounds like a movie. The back and forward interactions are great and the dry humor perfectly matches their age. Shame you don't get a back story of who these characters are, because I was having trouble caring when the odds are against them.
Michael Caine is excellent, of course. - especially during a scene between him and Charlie Cox after his wife passed. Rather than bawling into tears, Caine instead chooses to reflect deeply on grief itself. You feel his loneliness in that …
