Film: The Great Heist
Starring: Andrés Parra, Christian Tappan, Marcela Benjumea, Juan Sebastián Calero, Waldo Urrego, Rodrigo Jerez, Katherine Vélez, Paula Castaño, Pedro Suárez, Édgar Vittorino, Ramsés Ramos, Juan Pablo Barragán
Creator: Pablo González, C.S. Prince
Rating: ***
Reviewer: George Sylex
Overview - Money Heist previously clarified that Netflix crowds loves tales of huge thefts. A similar one who will definitely appreciate each second of The Great Heist, the new and terrific ambush that arrives at its catalog. Of course that of this Colombian series which debuted a day ago depends on a real occasion that of the assault on a bigger bank that happened in the espresso nation. Also, it is for sure the biggest cash robbery in history. In complete, the criminals figured out how to take from the Banco de la República, in the city of Valledupar, more than $24 billion Mexican pesos, proportional to US $33 million out of 1994, so, they would already be able to gauge what that cash would be worth today.
The plot may feel cribbed from the pages of How to Rob a Bank for Dummies, yet when the activity depends on such a marvelous genuine story and the outcomes are so much fun, it's difficult to gripe. As we have just about six hours of screen time, there's abundant open door for sudsy acting just as crime. Chayo conceals the illicit truth from spouse Carmen (Paula Castaño) and teenager little girl Luisa (María Camila Zea) while additionally keeping antagonized child El Sardino (Juan Sebastián Calero) a mystery. Molina is, at any rate, legitimate with his significant other Romy (Katherine Vélez) yet is frequently multiplied over in torment as the twin worries of high-stakes guiltiness and kidney problems take steps to take what shots proved unable.
In the long run the couple go to an understanding and the initial two scenes put things in place to follow. In run-of-the-mill heist style, we meet the group and the show is spread out utilizing schematics and your regular cutaway photographs of the bank. This develops to an emotional and tense couple of scenes as the heist gets underway. However, that is just a large portion of the story. The remaining of the scenes at that point displays an engaging encounter between the officials, and our looters on the run. This apparent move implies the initial half feels much pacier and cadenced contrasted with the subsequent half. A portion of this comes down to the thought ups nature of sub-plots and emotional spikes that vibe pointless, particularly given how rapidly they're settled.
The sub-plots are a specific issue since beside Lawyer and Chayo, there's almost no profundity and portrayal given to the supporting players. For instance, Estivan, Sardino and Dragon all have quite fascinating family set-ups. However none of them are given the screen-time expected to truly make a plunge and grow their characters. The Great Heist, sometimes didn't enter the core of emotion with the characters. It's a bit of baffling to be straightforward and one such episode late on made them wonder whether that specific character was extremely dead given the unexpected way they vanished.
The extraordinary powerless purpose of the series is its absence of amazement ; definitely that bit of "complexity" alluded to by Chayo. There are no exceptionally mindful composers or inclined to make any turns in an anticipated plot. There are no pretty much fascinating or created auxiliary characters, nor an endeavor at discourse behind, as in La casa de papel. Correlations are detestable, yet, they are likewise inescapable; the Spanish series is his "more established sister” and the primary proposal that the Netflix calculation gives in the wake of seeing the Colombian. With these inadequacies, the episodes — in light of a genuine burglary that happened in 1994 — tail each other absent a lot of beauties.
Stream or Skip? The Great Heist is a film about bizarre, unfocused individuals thus the outcome is a film that mirrors those qualities. Infrequently fun with an innovative story execution and a just in actuality story, The Great Heist is eventually empty and finishes in a shrug.
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