Army of Thieves (2021)
Directed by Matthias Schweighöfer
A mysterious woman recruits bank teller Ludwig Dieter to lead a group of aspiring thieves on a top-secret heist during the early stages of the zombie apocalypse.
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His fascination with the intricate mechanisms of high-security safes — the complex web of internal locks, cogs, pins and tumblers, breathing like live organisms — at times even has echoes of Martin Scorsese’s clockwork studies in Hugo .
Schweighöfer’s directorial style reflects Zack Snyder’s blueprints in Army of the Dead , but more energetic, akin to Baby Driver .
The inventive director of “Baby Driver” and “Shaun of the Dead” plays around in the Hitchcock, DePalma and Lynch toybox for a trippy tale about shy country lass Eloise (Thomasin McKenzie) who beelines to the big city of London so she can enter a fashion school.
“The Boondock Saints” kept popping into my head while watching Schweighöfer’s film.
The idea of a group of decidedly minor-league cons trying to make it into the major leagues, maybe with a Now You See Me standard of realism, is not unappealing.