The Thief's Lair is a 2018 criminal, action film directed by Christian Goodgast and co-starring Gerald Butler, Pablo Schreber, and O'Sherlock Jr. It tells the story of Nick (Gerald Butler) of the Los Angeles Police Department who leads other police officers to solve a serial robbery and engage in a firefight with a criminal group, honestly the robbery routine is more old-fashioned, but there are a few novelties in this film.
First of all, the characters are better chosen, they all have tough guy temperament, there are more scenes of gunfights, and the plot difference between the same type of film has been negotiated, and secondly, this film does not rob a small bank or a cash truck like other films, but puts its sights on the Los Angeles Federal Reserve Bank, the largest los Angeles, and it is not robbery, it is to steal the old banknotes in the bank that should have been scrapped, so that there are thirty million wealth out of the system supervision, very novel and safe way of robbery. It has not appeared in previous hijacking genre films.
And there is also a routine of attacking the east and the west in the film, the robbers rob in an ordinary small bank to deliberately attract the attention of the police, and then escape from the sewer under the bank, and by stealing information and the money truck they stole before, they infiltrate the Federal Depository Bank and steal the banknotes in the bank that have not yet been scrapped.
But what is obvious is that the resourceful police found out all this and engaged in a firefight with the criminals, the police were killed and injured, and the main members of the robbery gang were killed, except for the two who escaped without a sense of existence.
But the biggest highlight of this film is this escaped person, he used his identity as a bartender in the bar to find out the news of all walks of life, a few glasses of wine, whether it is a police or a bank clerk are willing to talk more, especially a few beautiful women to accompany him, and he used all kinds of information collected in the process of being a bartender to obtain the conditions for committing the crime.
As for the people killed by the police, it was only he who came to work, and he also cleverly found a conceited leader who hid behind the scenes, and finally the police killed those people, but they could not find the money, but he secretly escaped and once again became a bartender to find out the secrets of the diamond company.
Overall, the plot of this movie is smooth, the hidden dark lines behind it are also relatively hidden, and the reversal at the end is surprising. But the shortcomings of the film are also obvious, let's share the bacteria to talk about:
First of all, the policeman as the protagonist encountered an emotional crisis, the wife found his own record of cheating, and a large part of the film appeared in the scene of him arguing with his wife and making a promise with his daughter, but the end of the film did not reconcile the two, and there was no more plot, then this emotional scene is very confusing and meaningless.
Then there's the scene of the police fighting, where the classic scene of heavy machine guns piercing through a row of cars.
But there are two problems in this classic scene, first of all, the personnel in the car is a big loophole, although the police told the people in the car to try to lie down with their heads down, and a small number of people fled, but after the gunshots appeared, the cars were dead silent, and there was no panicked shouting, which was unrealistic.
Secondly, the police generally do not choose a crowded scene and a criminal fight, but the police in this film chose this road of traffic jams and criminals to drive dry, the cars are broken, but there are no casualties of the masses, which is really a bit fake.
But the biggest problem is not the above points, but what happened after the criminals infiltrated the federal savings office, the criminals hid in the money and followed the cash truck into the savings office, but when they came out, they disguised themselves as delivery workers and went out of the main entrance, and the security guards in this key position let the criminals go away knowing that the other party lacked the entrance registration, which not only violated the rules, but also appeared stupid.
Before saying how safe this savings is, the result is a problem and ignored, and the success of the crime depends on luck
The script is really not rigorous enough.
Overall, this is a mixed movie, if you want to watch a thrilling gunfight you can watch this film, if you like to watch a logical movie or forget it, the logic of the movie is really not likeable.