The Vault (2021): Freddie Highmore and a well back crew of specialists are breaking into the worlds most secure vault, the infamous Bank of Spain. A vault that not only has a drawbridge and 3 13 ton doors to keep you from it's treasure but a vault that will also lock you in and drown should you manage to break in at all.
The reason this movies is odd, and why I'm watching it in the first place, is that this was released right in the midst of the final season of Money Heist- the Money Heist crew spending the last 3 seasons of their 5 season run breaking into the Bank Of Spain and stealing the entirety of Spains gold reserves. All 90 tons of it. Two major releases, at the same time, about breaking into the same vault. It's just weird!
Anyway The Vault crew have only 120 minutes to tell their story rather than 30 hours so they're leaving the gold where it is and focusing instead on a few gold coins from Privateer Drakes bounty. And you know what? It's not bad. Pretty good heist movie. I like seeing Highmore playing a character who doesn't seem to be austistic and doing it well. He's damned near charismatic. The bizarre nature of the vault leads to plenty of thrills. It has a slight identity crisis, a couple times it wants to go full Oceans 11, and someone needed to reign them back to taut and tough, but these days I'd say this qualifies as a good movie.
What it does though, more than any other movie at the moment, is really underline why cinema is a dying artform and why television has supplanted it for AV supremacy. Compared to Money Heist it just feels so small! You get to know and love the money heist characters over weeks. The Vault only has time to sketch in a few stereotypes and move on. The heist itself has a couple nice setpieces but there's no time to make this feel epic. This is the worlds most secure vault and they are in an out in an afternoon? Eh....
If you'd told me in the 90s that by 2020 movies had been overthrown by television for quality, quantity and scale I wouldn't have known what language you were speaking. With the theatrical window being removed by the studios I start to wonder if there's any future to cinema at all. Horror movies I guess. Television still doesn't do good horror... But then horror movies were always best on the small screen on VHS rather than the cinema anyway.
The reason this movies is odd, and why I'm watching it in the first place, is that this was released right in the midst of the final season of Money Heist- the Money Heist crew spending the last 3 seasons of their 5 season run breaking into the Bank Of Spain and stealing the entirety of Spains gold reserves. All 90 tons of it. Two major releases, at the same time, about breaking into the same vault. It's just weird!
Anyway The Vault crew have only 120 minutes to tell their story rather than 30 hours so they're leaving the gold where it is and focusing instead on a few gold coins from Privateer Drakes bounty. And you know what? It's not bad. Pretty good heist movie. I like seeing Highmore playing a character who doesn't seem to be austistic and doing it well. He's damned near charismatic. The bizarre nature of the vault leads to plenty of thrills. It has a slight identity crisis, a couple times it wants to go full Oceans 11, and someone needed to reign them back to taut and tough, but these days I'd say this qualifies as a good movie.
What it does though, more than any other movie at the moment, is really underline why cinema is a dying artform and why television has supplanted it for AV supremacy. Compared to Money Heist it just feels so small! You get to know and love the money heist characters over weeks. The Vault only has time to sketch in a few stereotypes and move on. The heist itself has a couple nice setpieces but there's no time to make this feel epic. This is the worlds most secure vault and they are in an out in an afternoon? Eh....
If you'd told me in the 90s that by 2020 movies had been overthrown by television for quality, quantity and scale I wouldn't have known what language you were speaking. With the theatrical window being removed by the studios I start to wonder if there's any future to cinema at all. Horror movies I guess. Television still doesn't do good horror... But then horror movies were always best on the small screen on VHS rather than the cinema anyway.
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