King of Thieves

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King of Thieves

R

Released Jan 25, 2019

1h 48m

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Drama

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A crew of retired crooks pulls off a major heist in London's jewelry district.

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Critics Consensus

King of Thieves unites an incredible cast for a heist movie brimming with potential -- most of which, sadly, evaporates long before the end credits have started to roll.

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Christy Lemire

FilmWeek (LAist)

It's kind of a mishmash of tones... [But] these guys could just sit around and have tea and talk and it would be enormously watchable.

Sep 17, 2019

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Wenlei Ma

News.com.au

The Hatton Gardens heist was a ballsy operation. You can't say the same about King of Thieves.

Rated: 2/5

Mar 7, 2019

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David Stratton

The Australian

A disappointingly dour affair and not exactly the rollicking adventure about a bunch of old geezers pulling off a successful heist that we might have expected.

Rated: 2.5/5

Mar 2, 2019

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Calum Cooper

Source (Scotland)

Once the heist itself has been pulled off we see the men slowly let their greed take over. They start to mistrust one another, never fully aware of just how much they’ve snagged. This can and has worked before, but it doesn’t here.

Rated: 2/5

Jul 14, 2024

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

King of Thieves harbors no illusions about ensnaring the viewer's nostalgia for the British gangster films that inspired it, nor does it hesitate to shower affection onto its cast.

Rated: 2/4

Mar 4, 2022

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Laura Potier

Outtake Mag

The attempt at a crossover between a cockney-style Ealing comedy and a gritty criminal drama feels disjointed and, given the talent involved, a little amateurish.

Rated: 3/5

Aug 16, 2021

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Darren P

Good film Funny as well great cast and some good punchlines from Michael Caine. I really like it watched it loads of times

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

04/27/25

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Koi P

Suspensful and nuanced. Interesting.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

04/03/25

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bill f

Passes the time but little else. Tries hard to be both a comedy and a thriller but doesn't really succeed at either. For such a daring burglary, this could have surely been done a lot better.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

06/24/23

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David H

Fun veteran cast makes this an entertaining enough watch

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

05/01/23

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Ian W

Not sure about all the hate on this film. Yes, the actors swear too much, and it's unnecessary. But cockney villains DO swear a lot (as my east-end wife would testify). You get the feeling that the actors all enjoyed playing their parts - perhaps more than the audience did getting to watching it. It's certainly not great. It didn't really test the brain too much. But for a couple of hours of harmless fun, closely based on a true story I thought it was OK.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/23/23

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Andrea K

The performances are enough to watch this movie. There seems to be a disconnect between scenes that can make everything a little difficult to follow the story line.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

10/10/22

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Synopsis

A crew of retired crooks pulls off a major heist in London's jewelry district.

Director: James Marsh
Producer: Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Ali Jaafar, Michelle Wright
Screenwriter: Joe Penhall
Distributor: Saban Films
Production Co: Working Title Films
Rating: R (Language Throughout)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: British English
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 25, 2019, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 25, 2019
Runtime: 1h 48m

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