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A 2008 British heist thriller directed by Roger Donaldson and Very Loosely Based on a True Story, namely the 1971 Baker Street bank robbery. It stars Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows, and Keeley Hawes, along with half the supporting actors in Britain.Basically, MI5 hire a bunch of criminals to rob a safety deposit vault that contains a bunch of compromising pictures of a senior royal (Princess Margaret in the movie, but possibly not her in real life. You can't libel the dead). Things don't exactly adhere to plan — there's a porn baron and corrupt coppers involved...Definitely not one for the kiddies.
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The Unsolved Mystery
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The Unsolved Mystery: It's never conclusively revealed which of the many parties involved in the eponymous robbery is guilty of of murdering Major Singer and Bambas, or whether their killers are working together or not. In-Universe, the epilogue mentions their murders are never solved.
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No Celebrities Were Harmed
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: The movie goes out of the way to avoid naming specific Real Life figures especially among the Royals, who wouldn't be amused to be depicted in this movie given the theories it promotes about the reasons behind the bank robbery (and subsequent government hush-up). The only named Royal relative who makes a direct appearance in the movie is Lord Mountbatten, cousin to the Queen, most likely because his being dead since 1979 avoids any libel issues for the film-makers. Mountbatten is still shown in a bemused and benign light. In a blink-and-you'll-miss-them moment during Michael X's dinner party, there are two individuals who are clearly John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
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Hero Antagonist
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Hero Antagonist: The honest cops, particularly Given.
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Menacing Hand Shot
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Menacing Hand Shot: Michael, upon hearing about the bank robbery, walks into his brother's room, where he and Gale are sleeping, and looks over her with a focus on his clenched fist. Although he doesn't hit her, it's clear that he's become suspicious of her.
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And This Is for...
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And This Is for...: "This one's for Dave!" Right before kicking the man in the kidneys.
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The Caper
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The page image for The Caper uses a still from this movie.
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Pay Evil unto Evil
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Pay Evil unto Evil: Terry kicking the living crap out of sixty-year-old, kidney-stone-ridden murderer Vogel. "This one's for Dave!"
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Come Alone
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Come Alone: A variation. Whenever Terry has to rendezvous with someone, he's careful to set it up in such a way that he has the advantage. When he has to make a trade-off with the government, he insists on having a Royal family member present, knowing that having one directly involved in the deal would scare officials into not doing anything that would risk exposure.
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Hell-Bent for Leather
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Hell-Bent for Leather: Both Femme Fatale Martine and Terry the heist crew leader are wearing leather jackets in their first scenes. Averted with Eddie, who also wears leather jackets but is the only member of the heist crew who has no criminal past, and spends the last act as a Distressed Dude.
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Bittersweet Ending
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Bittersweet Ending: The major villains - Vogel, Michael X, and the corrupt cops - are arrested and punished for their various crimes. Terry gets to pay off his debts, reconcile his desires for Martine, and keep his family. But half of Terry's crew is killed off, along with the female MI 5 operative who tried to infiltrate Michael X's group.
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Hostage for MacGuffin
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Hostage for MacGuffin: When at first Vogel doesn't succeed with Dave, he tries it again with Eddie.
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Saying Too Much
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Saying Too Much
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Sex Signals Death
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Sex Signals Death: Dave Shilling, who dabbles in pornography, is the first of the gang to die. Arguably justified, in that the man who has him killed only recognises him because he had been the one producing said films. Gale, the MI 5 operative, sleeps with a member of Michael X's crew as part of her cover. After the heist is reported, Michael's paranoia drives him to kill them both.
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Country Matters
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Country Matters: Delivered via a Precision F-Strike: "You conniving cunt". It has become the Signature Line of the movie.
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BlackAndGreyMorality
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Black-and-Grey Morality: Almost every character in this movie is morally ambiguous at best and pure evil at worst - Det. Sgt. Given, the HAM radio operator, and Terry's daughters are really the only exceptions.
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Manly Tears
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Manly Tears: Tim gets choked up when he sees that Gale has been buried alive, as he was close to her.
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Gag Penis
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Gag Penis: Dave. Played for laughs at first, but eventually it leads to his demise when Vogel recognizes him as one of his former porn actors.
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One Last Job
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One Last Job: Terry promises his wife that this will be the score that will set them up for life, and he'll never commit another crime again. The ending implies he is keeping his word.
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FanService
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Fanservice: a lot of it, much explicit. Considering one of the persons victimized by the robbery is a local Madam running a brothel. Naughty Nurse Outfit: A woman wears one a sleazy nurse costume in the porn film Dave is in.
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Boxed Crook
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Boxed Crook: Martine, who agrees to set up the bank heist as a way to get out of a drug charge.
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The Infiltration
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The Infiltration: Gale Benson. It doesn't end well.
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Naughty Nurse Outfit
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Naughty Nurse Outfit: A woman wears one a sleazy nurse costume in the porn film Dave is in.
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Present-Day Past
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Present-Day Past: A bit of Stock Footage for Baker Street station has a sign for the Hammersmith and City line, which didn't exist in 1971 — being a part of the Metropolitan Line. A tube train is also of the wrong stock for the Northern Line in that period.
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MI-5
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Gale, the MI 5 operative, sleeps with a member of Michael X's crew as part of her cover. After the heist is reported, Michael's paranoia drives him to kill them both.
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Badass Crew
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Badass Crew: Subverted. At first it appears that Terry is assembling one of these, as is typical in heist films, but it turns out that some of them aren't very good at their jobs at all.
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Femme Fatale
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Femme Fatale: Martine, although she's also forced to do what she's doing by higher-ups in government. She and Terry had a past, and he is tempted by her charm even to where he kisses her during the caper. But he genuinely wants to stay with his wife and family, and ultimately negotiates a deal with the government to let her go (so she can also leave him).
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Justified Trope
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Dave Shilling, who dabbles in pornography, is the first of the gang to die. Arguably justified, in that the man who has him killed only recognises him because he had been the one producing said films.
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The Convenient Store Next Door
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The Convenient Store Next Door: Le Sac, closed for a basement "extension".
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Mass "Oh, Crap!"
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Mass "Oh, Crap!": Once the bank is robbed, quite a few people with valuables or compromising material in the vault are shown panicking.
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MacGuffin
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MacGuffin: Several different ones — the two sets of embarrassing photos, and Vogel's ledger book.
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Sexy Secretary
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Sexy Secretary: Downplayed with Terry's secretary Ingrid, who is pretty (something Terry flippantly comments on), but dresses conservatively and is Happily Married to Terry's mechanic Eddie.
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Jurisdiction Friction
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Jurisdiction Friction: The lower levels of law enforcement aren't aware of what certain officers in MI5 are up to, and suffer from misdirection during the post-heist investigation until a Secret Hold is placed on the whole affair.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles
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Needle in a Stack of Needles: One of the reasons Terry's crew pulls off the heist while the cops are actively searching for them is because the ham operator is picking up chatter in a 10-mile radius... and there were over 250 banks in that area the police had to check. The cops stopping at the Baker Street bank didn't have time to double-check the vault itself...
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Perma-Stubble
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Perma-Stubble: Terry and Kevin seem to be perpetually unshaven, but not enough to have actual beards.
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Hypocrite
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Hypocrite: Several of the characters, but Vogel deserves special mention: Michael X claims early on that he's a political activist struggling against racial oppression. He's later seen bullying a businessman with death threats, and acts very much the gangster including the moment he kills people he thinks are spying on him. Not to mention that one of his henchmen takes up with a white woman, the very people they supposedly despise.
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Contrived Coincidence: MI5 is stuck post-robbery with the realization that the whole caper could go public and could get very messy for the people they were trying to protect. As luck would have it, Terry's crew also robbed the blackmail materials of a local madam, who convinces one of her victims — a Member of Parliament — to request a security hold on the press, giving MI5 the political cover to hush it all up.
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Television Geography
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Television Geography: Largely averted. The Lloyds Bank branch is placed in its correct location and is still there today.
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Very Loosely Based on a True Story
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Very Loosely Based on a True Story: Make that very, very loosely. It's true that there was a robbery at the Baker Street branch of Lloyds in 1971, most of the robbers' walkie-talkie chatter was recorded by a ham radio operator who convinced Scotland Yard to check every nearby bank as the robbery was happening, there was a security hold placed on the story silencing the media, and several of the characters were real people (or at least clear fictionalizations of real people). But a lot of the plot elements (and a few major characters) are just conjecture/invention on the part of the filmmakers. Case in point, Gale Benson was not an undercover operative murdered when she was exposed, just a socialite killed by her lover when he tired of her.
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The Load
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The Load: Almost everyone in the crew screws up at least once during the heist, but Eddie takes the cake.
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Dirty Cop
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Dirty Cop: Take your pick, but mainly Gerald Pyke. Averted with Honest Cop Given, who gets the list of dirty cops from Terry and uses it to clean house during the movie's epilogue.
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TheSeventies
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The '70s: With a heavy dose of lingering The '60s mixed in (the movie takes place in 1971).
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Buried Alive
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Buried Alive: Gale's autopsy found dirt in her lungs, indicating that despite her injuries, she was still alive when she was placed in her grave.
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