Great movie but....

Rating: 8/10 (8 April 2006)

The success of the robbery (and the movie) depends almost entirely on the fact that the police cannot ascertain who are the robbers and who are the customers and bank staff because when they come out of the bank they are all dressed the same. But the Closed circuit television tape would clearly show everyone who entered the bank that day, so everyone would be able to recognise themselves and be recognised by others from these pictures, entering the bank. The robbers entered the bank dressed as painters and can thus be separated from those who entered the bank dressed normally. Only the inside man could not be identified as a robber as he was on surveillance tape entering the bank normally dressed. The con would thus only have worked if the robbers had all entered the bank dressed in normal clothing, but they didn't did they. Also although no robbery or murder took place, kidnap, extortion, threatening police officers and physical assault did. They would have torn the building apart to find the vanished robber, and polygraphed all the suspects, but they didn't did they. Don't try this at home.