I tend not to like heist films - I lack patience with the set-up knowing the meticulous planning comes undone the second the plan is enacted and I never manage to care much for the crims (so what if everything goes belly up and they get caught?) - but this comedy thriller from Argentina is a rollicking good time, a heist film full of characters you can care about, based on the incredible true story of the 2006 robbery of the Banco Rio in Acassuso, Buenos Aires dubbed by media outlets at the time "The Heist of the Century", a crime staggering in its complexity and ingenuity and one that had the peculiar effect, only in Argentina, of turning the criminals into folk heroes including mastermind Fernando Araujo who wrote the source book and co-wrote this film's screenplay.
★★★★☆
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