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movie review - The Vault (2022)

the journal of Michael Werneburg

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Kokubunji, 2023.09.27

This is a movie about some dudes who break into the world's most secure vault, which is apparently in Spain. They're determined to obtain some keys locked away in that vault because of a complicated back-story involving stolen Aztec loot and something, something. For some reason, they're able to convince a young university graduate who is being courted by oil companies with $400,000 jobs to join their heist.

The young graduate then goes on to solve virtually every problem that happens, even after they've been detected in the heist and in fact set off the mechanical traps that are lethal and impossible to prevent. I don't like super-capable characters in a movie, and I don't like it when they're smugly mugging the whole time without any apparent effort to act. I didn't care for a lot of the dialog in this thing, as it felt strained and unbelievable.

Not recommended.

rand()m quote

Immature poets imitate mature poets steal bad poets deface what they take and good poets make it into something better or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique utterly different than that from which it is torn the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time or alien in language or diverse in interest.

—T.S. Eliot