Pretty Good

Admirable film.

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

It's a curious film because for some reason the tension never really takes off. One moment some customers are going about their routine, mundane business 'good morning sir, would you like that in tens or twentys?', 'tens please', 'certainly sir'. The next moment a mini-van smashes down the doors of the bank and masked men with guns shout at everyone to 'get the f*&@ down!'. And still the tension remains flat as a pancake. The opportunities for conflict, and thus tension, abounds. The stakes are high: the lives of the hostages, the reputation of the police and the liberty of the robbers. You would expect all the parties concerned to be tense, very tense. Surprising then everyone seems remarkably laid back about the whole thing. The hostages do little more than huddle together in a corner with bags over their head, maybe the extras insisted on that. The police are passive rather than pro-active they observe wondering what will happen rather than figure out what to do next. Operationally little of the story stands up. Why the British Transport Police would provide the incident control van and not the Metropolitan Police beats me. Can you really ram-raid a bank? Going into more detail means writing spoilers but I'm not into those. The planning of the job and its execution is so flawed that on a few occasions you wonder if the makers were actually trying to be funny. If they were, they failed. Badly. This looks nothing like a group of slick professionals carrying a carefully planned robbery. Instead, it looks like a group of lads down the pub who were bored and decided to go rob a bank for a bit of a laugh. Except there are no laughs. The acting is pretty flat, but what can you do with a script like this? The story lacks complexity so not much happens, it just plods on adding to the boredom. There is a hard deadline, albeit a ridiculous one, to meet, but the film gives no sense of it looming. The chief flaw is the interplay between the robbers. It lies in the no-man's land between a ragtag group on the verge of imploding and a top-notch team of solid professionals. Either option would be good but neither was selected. How they boring way they bounce off each other is mostly down to the flat dialogue. They're all good pals without a decent plan. Daylight Robbery does has its moments, but they are few and far between.

I think the fact that this movie is already on television for free says it all really. All or nearly all of the positive reviews are written by shills.This movie is dire, you find yourself waiting a long time for things to happen which never arrive, the acting was weak, awful in some parts. The heist itself was not clever or well executed, and basically took an hour to show what could have been done in five or ten minutes. I can't comment on the ending because i turned it off and went to sleep. Really.Avoid at all costs, I like rubbish low budget British movies but this really really isn't worth it.

This is completely laughable. How can anyone rate this movie a 10? Oh. Wait a minute. If you're part of its PR push or the writer/director or the producer etc, I guess you'd have a very good reason to be giving this a ten. But people beware, this is an over-hyped, poorly written, terribly photographed piece of shouty garbage. The characters have zero development, zero humor, zero charm and zero impact. I saw another Brit film (The Bank Job) while I was in London and though I thought it was below average, I could at least watch it without crying into my popcorn. My British friends were more disappointed than I was and the director's claim that Guy Ritchie is an amateur goes to show what an absolutely talentless fool he really is. This movie looks cheap, the actors look nasty (except the girl), the cast acts loudly instead of convincingly. The whole thing is so disjointed that even the most ardent fans of Brit crime thrillers will hope that this director hangs up his megaphone immediately. Fans of Uwe Boll, may want to seek this out, but everyone else beware. If you see a rating higher than a 4, then it's been posted by either liars or idiots. Not so much an opinion, but a fact.

How can one person write, produce and direct such an entertaining film. Very believable with good acting.No CGI, just good old fashioned acting which has made the storyline true to life.Great soundtrack. This low budget British film is a winner and will make Paris Leonti famous. People in the know should be hammering on his door if they want success. A cheeky beginning and then the action starts.... and keeps on going. Clever use of camera angles on some scenes. I know a good film when I see one and I am positive this is one. All in all an excellent film.