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The Last Heist (2022) – Film Review

Cirector: Coz Greenop Cast: Terry Stone, Perry Benson, Emily Wyatt Certificate: 18

By Roger Crow

There are several points of merit regarding this new Brit crime thriller: it’s well shot, nicely edited, and the cast aren’t bad.

If you can get past the first hour, then a twist, when it comes, isn’t bad at all. But oh the swearing. I don’t mind a good potty mouthed scene if necessary, but there are so many F and C bombs here, it interrupts the script too much; it’s like trying to get from A to B but stopping every 30 seconds for verbal speed bumps.

Naturally it’s also reminiscent of many superior movies, from Reservoir Dogs and The Long Good Friday to Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels , Point Break (bank robbers dressed in US President masks), and more recently Bull . The latter was one of those brutal crime capers which was also well put together, and also featured a twist that explained everything that had come before, but at a price.

“One to watch”

For a movie clocking in at a reasonable 80-plus minutes, there’s no danger of The Last Heist outstaying its welcome. But if there was an 80-page script, I’m guessing every page had dialogue on it. Lots of dialogue, and here’s the thing: it didn’t need it, just like it didn’t need all the swearing, because this is a film, not a radio play, and wow there’s a lot of talking. Far too much. Chas and Dave might have compared the script to one of their best loved songs, and yes, the characters here do have more ‘rabbit’ than a popular supermarket.

Inside No 9 raised the bar so high for compact dramas and black comedies with a twist that a film like this would have been so much better in the hands of Pemberton and Shearsmith.

Yorkshire-born Director Coz Greenop is one to watch in the future however, and The Last Heist is worth at least one look, but by the end you may be wondering if the price of that rug pull was worth the wait.

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Stars: Perry Benson, Michael Head, Terry Stone, Sam Gittins, Ricky London, Emily Wyatt, Rachel Warren | Written by Michael Head, Lucinda Royden | Directed by Coz Greenop

The Last Heist opens with Mick (Perry Benson; Accident Man: Hitman’s Holiday , Sid and Nancy ) talking to his son Slips (Michael Head; On the Other Foot, Adam Loves Evelyn ) telling him he doesn’t want him following in his footsteps. And that he has an “insurance policy” to help prevent that from happening.

In the next scene, we’re at his funeral. He went to the grave with the nature of that policy still a secret. But Slips believes it’s stashed in a safe deposit box his father kept under an alias. With no other options, he pulls his old crew, Waldorf (Terry Stone; Fanged Up , Once Upon a Time in London ), Prozac (Sam Gittins; Wolves of War, Await Further Instructions ) and Fisherman (Ricky London) together for what should be the last heist they’ll need to pull off.

Director Coz Greenop ( Dark Beacon, House Red ) and writers Michael Head and Lucinda Royden don’t structure The Last Heist as a straightforward bank robbery film. Instead, they skip past the actual heist and pick up six months later as the gang meets to split the proceeds and figure out why things didn’t go according to plan. As they discuss what happened, and the fallout from it, we see the robbery in bits and pieces as well as other flashbacks, such as a young Slips watching his father fry a man’s face off in hot oil for stealing from him.

And it’s these kinds of flashbacks that take up much of The Last Heist ’s first hour. It’s as much a series of vignettes about the London underworld as it is the story of this one particular bank job. A series of rather grim vignettes I should add. So while there is a fair amount of action and bloodshed it’s dished out here and there across the various tales, frequently with a good bit of talk in between.

Indeed for all the poster and trailer play on the robbery, Trump masks and “We’re making bank robberies great again.” line, The Last Heist is more about those stories and the effects they had on those involved. and brought them to this point. It’s more of a crime drama with bursts of violence than an outright action film. And taken as such it’s fairly good, for the first hour at least.

And then in the final act, The Last Heist takes a hard turn into The Twilight Zone that caught me by surprise. And there’s really no way to discuss the rest of the film without giving it away. And I wish I could because I have some very mixed feelings about where Head and Royden went with the story. It’s an audacious move but I have my doubts about whether or not the viewers will accept it as it feels very out of place in both tone and content.

While the direction it goes in isn’t terrible, the way it’s handled feels wrong for these characters. It’s much too sentimental for a film like The Last Heist and robs it of a lot of its effect. The ending needed to be harsher to stay true to itself.

In the end, The Last Heist is a good first hour brought down by a final act that has a point to make but goes about it in a very misguided way. It’s a reminder that creativity can be a good thing, but it needs to be properly channelled to have the desired effect.

The Last Heist will be released to UK cinemas today, November 4th, via Platinum Pictures and will be available on digital platforms on November 14th. ______

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We have headed back to the world of the London Gangsters for our review today, as we check out The Last Heist as a group of criminals attempt to do a bank job!

Six months after a bank job went sideways, four criminals reunite to split the proceeds of the heist. Before they all go their separate ways, the crew need to make sense of the mess and figure out what went wrong. When the stakes are this high is there really honour amongst thieves, and how far will this four go to protect each other, especially if the main threat seems to come from within the group?

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With a lot of independent British-made movies you can expect a lot of grittiness and The Last Heist is no expectation with its excessive use of the F and C words the movie certainly brings home the side of the British gangster movie, that takes you on an unexpected journey as the criminals try to make any sense of what went down and the predicament that they are in during their meat up in Mick’s bar after the robbery.

I have to say that the movie wasn’t what I was expecting, yes it is a story of a bank job gone wrong and yes there is plenty of violence to show the brutality of the theme, but it’s the way the story moves to a point that just surprised me and shocked me with the twist that makes the movie so much more than your run of the mill gangster movie.

The story is somewhat of a simple one, but it’s the way that the story unfolds throughout the movie that keeps you watching, you have the feeling that something is coming to a boiling point, but you aren’t sure what the outcome is as the criminals chat away about the job with a series of flashbacks to the job as the criminals are masked up in various Donald Trump masks!

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The Last Heist  cast features genre veteran,  Terry Stone , best known as Tony Tucker from the  Rise Of The Footsoldier  film franchise as well as Emily Wyatt ( Sacrilege ), Rachel Warren ( Rise Of The Footsoldier: Origins ) and  Perry Benson  ( Anuvahood ,  Benidorm ).

According to the blurb for The Last Heist , the movie is inspired by true stories, real events and real people (with the names changed to protect the not-so-innocent), once you’ve seen the movie that statement really makes you wonder “WHAT!”

The Last Heist has some nice comedic and shocking moments, it’s not going to be for everyone but if you like this genre then it’s certainly worth checking out, the cast work well for their roles, and the movie isn’t a full-blown action movie but the style of the movie works for the format.

The Last Heist  will be in UK Cinemas from 4th November & Digital Download from 14th November .

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Movie title: The Last Heist (2022)

Movie description: The four thieves bounded by honour meet back at the local boozer, the place where it all began. Beneath the banter lies a dark secret that tests the loyalty of these four friends to the limit to see if there really is honour among thieves.

Date published: October 25, 2022

Country: UK

Duration: 1h 26m

Director(s): Coz Greenop

Actor(s): Terry Stone, Rachel Warren, Emily Wyatt

Genre: Crime

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After a job goes sideways, four thieves bounded by honour meet back at the place it all began, the local boozer. Drink, drugs, jokes, reminiscing about old times and even politics, you would think this was a standard night in any South London drinking establishment however beneath the banter lies a dark secret that will test the loyalty of these four friends to the limit to see if there really is honour amongst thieves.

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I've yet to discover a SteamWorld game I don't like. Whether plundering the earth in SteamWorld Dig 2 or mucking about with magic in SteamWorld Quest , these are solid and approachable adventures that enthusiastically embrace whatever theme the developers have decided upon. Cowboys? Sure. Wizards? Why not. It barely matters, as long as it results in some good puns. As a studio, Thunderful have a reputation for hopping from one style of game to the next, boiling entire genres down to their essence, and reconstituting them with competence and style to exist within a now-familiar steampunk world of colourful pals and Saturday morning cartoon jokes. The studio is a perpetual notion machine. Yes, with SteamWorld Heist 2 , they're revisiting the sci-fi bullet-bouncing of their 2016 tactics game SteamWorld Heist , but they're also introducing significant changes to create a compulsive XCOM-like full of sea-faring submariners that may be their best work yet, even against a back catalogue of blinders.

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The characters are simple but genial. The one-armed Captain is living in the shadow of his notorious mother. Stiff-upper-lipped grenadier Wesley seeks an honourable death, while sniper Daisy is just happy to be in the belly of a submarine infamous for bothering the enemy Navy. You unlock more crew members as you stop in bars, each chattering away with optional dialogue as the tale goes on. My favourite is the mercenary "Crowbar" who squawks with every line of dialogue and who seemingly values a paycheck above all else. Plenty of fun Naval antagonists show up too, indulging in upper class chit-chat and sporting pseudo-British names like Babblesthrop and Krinkleswiffer.

Structurally, it's a little different to the first game, which saw you navigating a simple network of stellar stopovers, using a spacey map similar to something you might find in FTL . Here you control the submarine directly instead, sailing around a lush world map of tropical waters, the clouds parting and revealing more of the map as you explore. Eventually, you'll be avoiding submerged mines, diving below the surface, and rising to fire broadsides at Navy vessels. It's a bit like playing an arcadey twin stick shooter between the meatier tactical missions. Except the ship will do the shooting for you automatically - you just need to point it in the right direction.

The player guides a submarine through tropical waters to a new mission outpost.

The early blue waters offer a limited smattering of missions (little outposts promising a "star" rating on completion) plus secret locations that require you to boost your way upstream into hidden lagoons, where you might find some flotsam containing a new weapon or a few Gallons (the game's primary currency). But these are mere paddling pools to the later seas, such as the maze of arctic waters that let you sail wilier waters before you commit to the heavier and harder jobs.

It is in such missions where the really compulsive tactical stuff shines. These are battles full of bouncing bullets, XCOM-like movement, and moreish decision-making. The arms of your bots are unsteady, swaying gently as they aim. Some weapons, like the Sniper rifle, come equipped with a helpful aiming laser, but others, like the SMG, don't have such a guide, meaning that shots aren't always a sure thing. And that's especially true when those pot shots try to take advantage of the ricocheting qualities of the game's billiard-like gunplay. You sometimes take a gamble by pulling the trigger not knowing exactly how things will go, which delivers a tiny thrill that happens at least once every fight.

The mech of a Navy dieselbot prepares to attack the crew.

Some characters, like the Sniper, can unlock skills that steady the sway and extend the reach of their laser pointers. Other classes, like the machine-gunning Reaper, will get an extra turn after landing a killing blow. The Flanker can take an action after sprinting (normally not allowed) which will remind any XCOM player of all the shotgun-wielding Assault troopers who saved many a day (or got vaporised for charging into the wrong place).

At this point Heist 2 could have left the classes alone, like any other turn-based strategy game . Instead, it pushes things a little further. Here, you can use a limited resource called "cogs" to mix and match the skills of each class (up to a point). An Engineer, who can create a piece of cover at will, might spend a cog to get the "sidestep" ability of a Flanker, allowing them to escape in moments when they are trapped on either side by clobbering enemies. A born Reaper might covet the Sniper's ability to throw down a smoke bomb that makes him invisible for a turn. Ah, death from the shadows. Delicious.

There is a catch, of course. If you want a character to unlock these skills, they have to train with that class' weapon and level up the hard way. At first it feels like this is a slow way of creating multiclass characters. But really it is a means of eliminating class altogether (#KarlMarx), since any character can use any weapon and become, in theory, a superpowered generalist. Each character also comes with their own innate abilities: Wesley can lob grenades as a free action, for example, while veteran buccaneer Judy can shame her enemies from across the map, giving them a tonguelashing so fierce it completely ignores armour.

The crew are in the middle of fighting rival bots.

It can be a little cumbersome when it comes to choosing ingredients for each bot's stew of skills, perhaps a result of the simplified loadout screens. But I'd rather have a clean set of boxes that required some extra clicks than a mess of menus. I did also find myself investing far more in some classes than others. The explosives-obsessed Boomer has health increases that are universally useful, for example, while the Reaper's concentration on critical hits, while intriguing, just didn't feel as adaptable or necessary. In fact, outside of the first character who fulfills the role of Reaper, I basically abandoned that class. Though I'm certain there is some brutal build you could make by combining those skills with that of the Flanker, who's nippy movement could result in robotic massacres.

Not that I sympathise with the enemies too much. Navy commanders can issue "edicts", buffs that boost the armour and firepower of their fellow tin can men. The Rattlers, meanwhile, are old bots who have "replaced all their metal with bones" as part of a high seas cult. This allows you to fire rounds right through them, which is a blessing in levels where the scamps form a neat line to be blasted. And a curse in later levels where an ice block may stand behind your target, containing yet another enemy, frozen solid until a stray bullet wakes them up and adds to your troubles.

There are some entertaining boss battles too, such as an admiral who shows off with improbable trick shots, his glowing bullet boinging around the level for a comedic amount of time, as you try to figure out who he is even aiming at. It always looks like he has fluffed his shot, until that last bounce sends it directly at your Brawler's noggin. Then there is Big Steve. Ah, Big Steve.

A dieselbot with a silly hat shouts his own name:

There is sometimes the traditional XCOM problem of running into a room and activating a whole other group of enemies. Which can make opening some doors feel like an instant difficulty multiplier, a sometimes-irrecoverable misstep. On the plus side, there are no consequences for failing a mission at all. Even a total team wipe results in nothing but some lost time. Aborting a mission partway through is likewise no big deal. The spirit of forgiveness runs so deep that you are prompted with the option to change the game's difficulty mode before every single mission, allowing you to tailor the challenge as you go along.

Still, each bot in your party can only stomach one mission per day before they need a rest, at which point you can dock at the nearest bar to end the day and cash in some "bounty" chips for extra goodies. Aside from being hubs where you can buy items and recruit new members to your squad of clanky misfits, these floating pubs host some of the game's shanty-adjacent musical numbers. I'm a fan of diegetic songs in video game hubzones (shout out to the band in Endless Dungeon 's saloon), so I find these upbeat sea-songs give the lopsided bars a sense of breezy homeliness. Though I could see some people immediately turning the music off in the options. My friends, why do you not welcome the earworm's embrace? There is peace here, in listening to crooning sailors as you try to sleep.

A steambot band plays music in a bar as a crowd of other bots wish Captain Leeway farewell.

I've spent a lot of time here describing the actions and cogwheels of the game, and not so much the feelings it elicits. But that's maybe because the particular joy of SteamWorld games is so simple and pure. From a designer's standpoint, they are little metal marvels, proof of a long-practised craft. But from a player's perspective they are games where the pleasure is so plain to feel that I barely want to even discuss it. I don't have to explain why I like the feeling of a cat's fur, or the taste of chocolate. I don't feel a compulsion to examine why Lego feels satisfying to click together, or to discuss what is good about a sunny day. These things are simple totems of happiness. SteamWorld feels this way for me. The worst you can say of them is that they play safe. And yet a safe harbour is something every player of games can use.

Once again, I've yet to play a SteamWorld game I didn't like. SteamWorld Heist 2 is not bucking that trend. After 15 hours I still haven't finished it, but my endgame sense is tingling and I'm eager to see it through. If I was asked to name the most reliably entertaining franchise in video games today, I would perhaps point to Thunderful's toybox and say simply: "Them 'uns". These games know what they're doing, they communicate it succinctly, and most importantly, they let the player happily move on when the game is finished. These are not games of "endless replayability", they are toys of endful playability, of conclusiveness, closure and clemency. If switching off after reaching an "ending" in a piece of Destiny 2 DLC is like finishing a McDonalds yet feeling hungry again two hours later, then watching the credits roll on a SteamWorld game is like finishing a decent home cooked meal and walking away full of unthinking contentment. I'm keen to keep sailing north, find a homey pub on the horizon, and eat that final dish.

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