THE VAULT REVIEW MOVIE

Sight unseen, still locked in its centuries-old chest, the mystery loot is dispatched to Madrid. The case is brought before an international court at the Hague, which sides with Spain. But the moment they haul it aboard ship, it’s seized by tipped-off Spanish customs agents, having been exhumed from that nation’s territorial waters. which crusty Walter (Liam Cunningham) has spent three decades searching for. Some 365 years later, a crew of deep-diving salvagers find that lost booty. theaters as well as digital and on demand March 26.Ī short prologue introduces the notion of treasure sunk to the bottom of the Atlantic in 1645, amid many sea battles between England’s Sir Francis Drake and the Spanish Armada. Saban Films is releasing the primarily English-language feature to U.S.

THE VAULT REVIEW MOVIE

But anyone desiring more from a heist movie than the genre’s familiar conventions professionally executed will find “The Vault” a bit empty. Viewers who really love this sort of thing may get caught up in the procedural aspects of the story anyway. It’s just that a caper of this type needs tense set pieces, surprising twists, idiosyncratic characters or charismatic stars - ideally, all the above - to distinguish itself, and this one falls short in all those departments. There’s nothing really wrong with this glossy tale of a “mission impossible” raid on a heavily fortified Madrid bank to retrieve treasure, as slickly directed by Jaume Balaguero of the “” series. release, Spanish heist “ The Vault” stubbornly remains one of those movies you know you’ll be forgetting almost as soon as you finish watching it.

Retitled from the even more indistinct “Way Down” for U.S.