The Quiet Ones

The Quiet Ones

An apparently very meticulously researched retelling of "Denmark's biggest-ever robbery" during the 2008 financial crisis with the credited involvement of one of its architects Le Trou-style, no less. As a result features a lot of great procedural detail regarding how these guys pulled it off, macho hard-boiled dialogue, some very cool car interior oners (including one where they're dropping nail bombs in a rainstorm that's really cool), a sick knockoff Safdie Good Time score, and overall solid control of dark tone/atmosphere, etc. Unfortunately, it is handsomely and intensely made enough of a heist thriller you can't help but wish it had a bit more unique personality to it. Just not much in here you've not seen a done better a dozen times already. Kind of got a kick out of main Not A Skarsgård guy's arc of trying and failing to be #1 at Danish boxing to impress his daughter and instead deciding to be #1 at Danish money-robbing.

Further discussion on ep 347 of my podcast SLEAZOIDS, as part of our TIFF24 coverage.

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