I love a really good heist movie because a really good heist movie has to be super-smart as well as exciting if it's to hold our attention and entertain us and the best heist movies are classics of their kind. "The Vault" may not be quite 'classic' material but it's still hugely entertaining, superbly plotted and very exciting. If, on close inspection, the plot has more holes in it than a large Swiss cheese, who cares; this is a guilty pleasure of the most pleasurable kind and one of the best heist movies in a very long time and like a lot of heist movies, especially since the name-checked Danny Ocean hit a few casinos in Vegas, this one has you routing for the thieves.
The boss of the operation is Irish actor Liam Cunningham while gang members include Sam Riley, Astrid Berges-Frisbey, Luis Tosar and Alex Stein but the self-appointed mastermind is Freddie Highmore, a twenty-two year old engineering genius whose brain is needed to crack the vault. The setting is Madrid during the World Cup and the job is to retrieve some rare Spanish coins seized by the Spanish government from Cunningham during a salvage operation.
Of course, if you can actually follow what's happening step-by-step you're a smarter cookie than I am but then you don't go to a heist movie to see a step-by-step guide on how to rob a bank; you go for the sheer fun to be had watching others do it and Jaume Balaguero's "The Vault" is a fun movie of the first rank. The only surprise is why it went straight to Amazon, at least here in the UK, as it has box-office success written all over it.
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