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. 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. The ensuing pandemonium with the Patriots' victory would undoubtedly make for useful cover within the heist of the century.Retitled from the even more indistinct “Way Down” for U.S. If "The Vault" decides to go for a trilogy, perhaps a future heist could occur in tandem with Super Bowl LI in 2017, where Tom Brady and the rest of the Patriots came back from behind against the Atlanta Falcons. It would give the prospective series a nice hook while opening up a host of unique possibilities. There's a good chance "The Vault" could spawn its own " Ocean's 11"-type franchise where the team grows as they pursue other high-profile jobs amid culturally significant sporting events. It seems like they're banking on the overly stretched police force and large crowds to aid them as they attempt an even bigger theft. It looks like they'd stick with that trend as the team has decided to break into the next vault during the 2012 Olympics, which took place in London. One of the key elements from the film involves the job taking place during the 2010 World Cup in Spain. "The Vault" ends with a peek of Walter and his comrades going to the Bank of London for their next heist.
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