I thought this film was very engaging – it’s about a real bank robbery (Baker Street Robbery) that happened in London in 1970, which apparently made the press at the time for a few days, and then was hushed up. According to wikipedia, that’s not strictly true – The Times did report the story for 2 months, including the names of the people convicted.
Fiction or not, this was a good film. Even though it did glorify crime a bit. The little twists were interesting.
The main premise of this true-story turned fiction is that the government wants to get hold of some compromising photographs of a royal. The pictures being used as blackmail by a ‘Michael X’. The government agencies (MI5/MI6, can’t remember if they mentioned which one) helps set the wheels in motion for a robbery at the bank where the pictures are stored in a safe deposit box.
I initially assumed it was an actual true story, but, reading wikipedia and imdb, it’s likely very far from the truth.
I also went past the Lloyds bank a few days after watching the film, not realising it was the same one, and being surprised that it looks very similar to what it did in 1970!
I give it 8/10