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movie review - Army of Thieves

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Following hot on the heals of "Army of the Dead" comes a prequel about the German safe-cracker. The film opens with our safe-cracker living a frustrated life as a government clerk who posts safe-cracking videos. Things rapidly spiral out of hand and we learn in the events of the film to come that it's a very close prequel indeed. This film sets up the safe-cracker's immediate interest in the supposedly uncrackable safe in the first film, and then layers on some forgivable plot filler and a handful of characters that are let's face it doomed from the beginning. It's a notably better if not ambitious movie (it's a heist movie set as the world is succumbing to zombies) and a welcome pre-zombie follow-up.

Recommended.