#THE VAULT 2021 SERIES#
One team member’s betrayal is amply telegraphed, capping a series of intended surprises that feel safely formulaic. But despite that surface sheen, as well as the occasional soundtracked prod toward a rollicking tenor (via songs from AC/DC, Sex Pistols, etc.), somehow the fun train never quite arrives. Shot in sleek, handsome widescreen on plush locations by DP Daniel Aranyo, “The Vault” looks the part of a dashing international caper à la “Ocean’s” films. That results in some absorbing minutiae as our heroes don various guises and utilize myriad techniques to infiltrate the Fort Knox-like facility. They’re much more attuned to the functional details of the “cloak and dagger nonsense,” as at one point the protagonists’ mission is a little-too-aptly described. That last element provides a diverting, large-scale background element, but might have been better woven into the narrative throughout than Balaguero and his multiple scenarists manage. One advantage: This is July 2010, so the city is a distracting chaos of sports fandom as the World Cup nears Spain’s grasp. They must access a heavily fortified Bank of Spain HQ in Madrid, eluding not just umpteen guards and surveillance devices but obsessively dedicated Security Chief Gustavo (Jose Coronado). Giving the kid a wary welcome are the others on Walter’s team: many-wigged changeling Lorraine (Astrid Berges-Frisbey), surly brawn James (Sam Riley), computer whiz Klaus (Axel Stein), and equipment man Simon (Luis Tosar). Yet somehow it’s an offer our hero can’t resist. He’s more intrigued by an anonymous invite that leads to Walter, who wants the wunderkind’s help breaking into “a vault in the most secure location in the world.” It is one of the film’s major credibility gaps that we’re meant to believe supposedly-brill Thom would potentially trash his own future to steal back nonspecific valuables from a government, simply because some grumpy old rich dude thinks he’s entitled to them. Meanwhile 21-year-old purported engineering “boy genius” - we know he’s one because someone calls him that every five minutes - Thom ( Freddie Highmore) is in Cambridge fending off post-graduation job offers from multinational corporations. Sight unseen, still locked in its centuries-old chest, the mystery loot is dispatched to Madrid. The case is brought before an international court at the Hague, which sides with Spain. But the moment they haul it aboard ship, it’s seized by tipped-off Spanish customs agents, having been exhumed from that nation’s territorial waters. which crusty Walter (Liam Cunningham) has spent three decades searching for. Some 365 years later, a crew of deep-diving salvagers find that lost booty. theaters as well as digital and on demand March 26.Ī short prologue introduces the notion of treasure sunk to the bottom of the Atlantic in 1645, amid many sea battles between England’s Sir Francis Drake and the Spanish Armada.
Saban Films is releasing the primarily English-language feature to U.S.
#THE VAULT 2021 MOVIE#
But anyone desiring more from a heist movie than the genre’s familiar conventions professionally executed will find “The Vault” a bit empty. Viewers who really love this sort of thing may get caught up in the procedural aspects of the story anyway. It’s just that a caper of this type needs tense set pieces, surprising twists, idiosyncratic characters or charismatic stars - ideally, all the above - to distinguish itself, and this one falls short in all those departments. There’s nothing really wrong with this glossy tale of a “mission impossible” raid on a heavily fortified Madrid bank to retrieve treasure, as slickly directed by Jaume Balaguero of the “” series.
release, Spanish heist “ The Vault” stubbornly remains one of those movies you know you’ll be forgetting almost as soon as you finish watching it.
Retitled from the even more indistinct “Way Down” for U.S.
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