Empire
In April 2015, Londoners gawped as details emerged of a massive robbery which saw £200 million’s worth of valuables stolen from the vaults of the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit company. Britain’s largest-scale burglary for years (some believe ever), it certainly made for absorbing reading on the next morning’s commute. Just two years later comes this recreation of the caper. And ‘caper’ is the approach taken by director Ronnie Thompson as he tells how a handful of ageing thieves — aside from the mysterious, anonymous gang leader played by Matthew Goode — got together for an audacious swansong.
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