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9 out of 13 people found the following comment useful :-
Definitely NOT the next Italian Job - Great PR, very average film, 19 August 2008
2/10
Author: intelearts from the big screen

OK - firstly, why are all the 10* reviews from people with only one review? Secondly, to equate this to the Italian Job (Even the new version!) is a bloody insult.

It is just a basic stick-up job with lots of shouting and screams at the beginning, some ludicrous device about how to get money out of a City of London bank (Sure banks have with some 70 million have no motion detectors...) in the middle, and an OK third part where it all goes wrong.

It is just a mess, too chaotic; no or very little humour or charm, and after the first half-hour I had completely lost interest.

It is seems from the ground up a Let's Make A Lads Film - even down to the obligatory brunette as hostage - and I just ended up feeling that the writers sat around a table and said "Well lads, what would guys like in this?" "Right, football (There isn't any), hardnuts, big haul of cash, mockney accents, and hard attitudes, stupid cops etc;" and originality be damned.

If this is the best crime movie (It's not a heist movie - it's way too blatant to even get near that category) since the Italian Job - then we're all in the deepest poo...

NOT recommended Watch it when it comes on Sky, which it will forever...

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9 out of 13 people found the following comment useful :-
A Crime Caper Hot On The Heels Of The Bank Job, 23 June 2008
8/10
Author: way2grimee from United Kingdom

I would think that this film has been overshadowed probably due to The Bank Job being released only a couple of months previous. There's a bunch of familiar faces from films such as Lock Stock, Snatch, The Business etc and even a bloke from Eastenders. Your usual cockney lot.

That being said the acting is spot on and the dialogue is funny. Gotta love low budget British films, there's a hell of a lot more of them recently and its a welcome change to the usual big budget yankee tosh.

The characters are fun but believable, especially the young white kid really made me laugh. What made him so funny was the fact that I know kids just like him haha.

The rest of the crims were your usual hard cases, jokers and sarcastic cockney types.

Overall the storyline and dialogue was very well written and an enjoyable film throughout.

I give it 8/10 to try and make up for whichever tosspot gave it such a crap rating. Bravo.

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7 out of 11 people found the following comment useful :-
Disappointing, 2 August 2008
3/10
Author: Sand-Dancer from Canada

As a British ex-pat, I am always keen to watch British movies, especially the crime/bank job/gang genre. However, I was very disappointed by this very slow-moving, cliché-ridden attempt...it was like watching a bad episode of The Bill (or maybe Eastenders, given that it had Shaun Williamson and Paul Nicholls in it!).

The story was dull, the casting poor, the acting wooden - even Geoff Bell seemed like he was just going through the motions without putting in much of an effort. Maybe I have become too accustomed to watching better and more natural 'bad boys' like Jason Statham, Colin Farrell, and even Danny Dyer in such roles.

*Big yawn - don't bother watching*

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1 out of 1 people found the following comment useful :-
Just Enjoy, 15 November 2008
6/10
Author: ian1000 from United Kingdom

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Firstly, as others have said, the premise is unconvincing, and this is most certainly NOT an Italian Job.

That having been said, the film is an enjoyable British crime film, though not a Guy Ritchie bungling criminals caper at all - these characters are unpleasant, menacing and ruthless. The bungled start of the raid soon takes a dark twist.

The actors are a collection of low budget cockneys - Del Synott and Shaun Parkes from Lock Stock (TV show), Vas (Rory Breaker) from Lock Stock (movie) and even Shaun Williamson from Eastenders (and an Extras victim).

The scale and shape of the police operation is totally unrealistic, and Williamson does not have the presence to be the cop in charge. It all compares badly to Dog Day Afternoon, Inside Man, and The Bank Job.

But never mind, I enjoyed it anyway, and the conclusion of the story, together with the manner in which it arrived, was unexpected (perhaps I was not concentrating).

The opening of the final scene seems to be a nod to The Italian Job!

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6 out of 11 people found the following comment useful :-
A good British movie that is worthy of several viewings. I am pleased, 24 May 2008
10/10
Author: aewilliamson from United Kingdom

A good British movie that is worthy of several viewings. I am pleased to see it has not gone the 'plastic gangster' route. Too many films go the way of the tough guy sharp talk style but this has become jaded and Daylight Robbery has managed to get the balance right.Some good performances from an ensemble cast, that includes the talented Johnny Harris, Geoff Bell and Vas Blackwood. It has tidy dialogue and sharp editing, with the story moving along at a good pace. The soundtrack works and is not too pretentious or overwhelming. This film will work as cinema or as home entertainment, but I would say, to get maximum effect and maximum enjoyment, try to catch it when it's released theatrically.

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6 out of 11 people found the following comment useful :-
A British heist movie, 8 May 2008
8/10
Author: calvinandhobbs from United Kingdom

A solid British heist film which tries to capture the tension of Dog Day Afternnon.

Jeff Bell is good in the film as are the rest of the male cast. Good set-pieces - the tunnels sequences work very well. The bank job feels real enough. The film contains nice touches which take the audience in unexpected directions. It's good to see Barry from Eastenders doing something other than Extras. Not that many female characters, although the main woman is quite a babe.

Good tight piece all around. The kind of film that doesn't normally get made in UK. Paris Leonti is clearly a director to keep an eye on.

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7 out of 13 people found the following comment useful :-
go and see!, 28 April 2008
9/10
Author: mark-4409 from United Kingdom

Great! The opposite of what I thought it would be, and all the better for it! The presence of Vas Blackwood and the robbery theme made me think it might be the rumpled spawn of Lock, Stock, but don't let this throw you.

Daylight Robbery is a different beast altogether.

Instead of convoluted, contrived plot and cheap laughs, Leonti keeps it real and lets us go along for the ride with real, non sensational, believable characters.

A brave, distinctive movie about what it's probably really like to rob a bank.

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13 out of 25 people found the following comment useful :-
Congratulations, 29 April 2008
10/10
Author: eriknovak-1 from Hungary

I met Paris, the director at Salerno film festival, we were both in competition with our films. And the first minute I saw him in his hat, I had the feeling that this guy is something really interesting. Then I watched his film, and I was really amazed. It is not like a first film, but the work of a real industry professional with a lot of real talent. The story is clever, very well written, the actors are just good as well, the actions are perfect, and the whole thing is just catching you from the first minute till the end titles. Funny, entertaining, this is what cinema is for. So, Paris, Congratulations! It is good to have you as a friend....

Erik Novak

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I felt robbed - and I didn't even pay to see it, 15 December 2008
1/10
Author: (miles-185) from London, England

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.

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The World's Dullest Bank Robbery, 3 November 2008
4/10
Author: JoeytheBrit from Cambridgeshire, England

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It's a shame that on occasion people involved in the promotion of a film have so little confidence in the product that they feel compelled to create user accounts on IMDb so that they can write a single comment on each account that praises to the rafters what is never anything more than a below-average film. Of course, director Leonti did himself no favours by slating Guy Ritchie and his 'plastic gangsters' when this film was released. I'm not a big fan of Ritchie's gangster flicks either, but his efforts stand head and shoulders above Leonti's debut effort and it's pretty guileless to describe the characters of another's film as plastic when your own are little more than dead wood wrapped in skin.

The story has a bunch of characters robbing a bank after checking in their baggage for a flight to an overseas world cup match, the plan being that they will rob the bank instead of enjoying a few beers in the bar and be back in the departure lounge in time for take off. Only one of these characters, a new father whose wife is fed up with him going to football matches, has any kind of back story, and the interplay between them is of such a dull and predictable nature that, not only do you learn nothing substantial about them, you really don't care what happens to them.

A siege situation develops after the gang have reversed their van into the bank – injuring one of their own in the process – but they are unconcerned because they've constructed a tunnel long enough to take them beyond the area cordoned off by the police who are led by a character who is possibly supposed to provide some comic relief. Naturally, things don't go quite to plan, but you won't care. You really won't care. In fact you'll be surprised at how little you care.

We don't even get to see their escape fall apart. Their fates are relayed via a news report about the sentences doled out and a few intertitles, meaning there is no satisfactory conclusion to it all.

Kudos to Leonti, he's managed to get the finance for a movie, assemble a reasonably decent cast and get the thing distributed, and no doubt he's a hard-working individual who's passionate about his work. But you get the impression that all he has done here is knit together moments from all his favourite heist movies, which is why it all comes across as so disjointed. No doubt that cheap shot at Ritchie was purely for promotional purposes but, even had his film been superior to Ritchie's it would have been a dubious tactic, and the fact that his film falls far short of Ritchie's own debut just makes Leonti look like an opinionated fool.

On a more positive note, Leonti's direction displays a high level of confidence for a relative novice and his enthusiasm for the subject is obvious. He also manages to draw some decent performances from a cast led by Geoff Bell, a character actor who is always watchable, and somehow manages to manufacture an upbeat feel to what is essentially a downbeat ending.

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