Pockets & Den of Thieves

Den of Thieves (2018)

Bad Dads Film Review

Den of Thieves

Reegs: Uh, pardon me. Welcome to Bad Dad's Film Review. The podcast that is to film criticism as a pickpocket is to a new disc colony. This week we're going risk deep into the top five pockets and pickpockets a segment that promises to, to receive more nimble fingering than your mum. And twice her dexterity, we'll cover everything from the breast pockets, purely decorative handkerchiefs shelf to whatever the hell a fob pocket actually is. In countdown so transparently thin, you'll be amazed at how much filth we managed to squeeze out of it, which is coincidentally also what your mum said.

Sidey: said.

Reegs: Our main feature this week sees us hiding away in Christian T's den of thieves, about a crew of ex-military thieves planning the impossible heist of the US Federal Reserve and the morally bankrupt Sheriff's unit trying to stop them. It's basically heat if the existential recognition between two men who understood each other's souls got left on the cutting room floor and the budget was redirected entirely towards protein shakes, tribal tattoos, and Jira Butler's swaggering. Big dick energy. Uh, before we get started, a quick note, nothing to worry about, uh, let me just read from this. Uh, the following podcast contains spoilers, profanity, opinions that do not represent those of any reasonable person. And Chris, by continuing to listen, you've waived your right to complain, your right to a refund, and all rights, titles, and interests in and to your current residents, motor vehicles, savings accounts, pension funds, and any, any inheritance you were expecting, but should not have been counting on because your parents were boomers. Uh, Dan is absent this week. Whether he is casing the joint or already in it depends on whether you are a glass half full sort of person. And if there ever was a glass half full around Dan, he'd have drunk it. Uh, so with that said, let's meet the men left holding the bag, starting with ravishing Chris, a man for whom watching films is lesser passion and more a sentence he's serving with grim, magnificent dignity. Unless multiple people are being gunned down in a reckless shootout in a traffic jam, Chris considered it considers it whimsical garbage for people who feel things on purpose.

Cris: Exactly.

Reegs: And caught with his hand in it again in second place. The man who tells me he's been practicing all week on a willing volunteer and she still can't feel him going in which he's chosen to interpret as a professional achievement rather than, than the most damning review a man has ever received from his own wife. It's sidey.

Sidey: Hello?

Reegs: And then there's me, Riggs. Hello?

Cris: Hello.

Sidey: Oh,

Reegs: So it's just the three of us this week in the man cave. Um, new equipment as well.

Sidey: Got the new equipment. Do you wanna quit walking? Football, update? 'cause we didn't have one last week 'cause there was no game last week.

Reegs: Yes, please.

Sidey: We had a game yesterday. Daniel was absent. Um, who's in

Reegs: he's the goal scorer as well.

Sidey: goal scorer. So I had to step up. I'd step up. I got a goal. Um,

Cris: seal the win.

Sidey: doubled my tally for the season. Okay. Up up to two. Um, it was the crucial sixth goal in our sixth nil thrashing of Rosa Rovers.

Reegs: That was the one that finally broke their

Sidey: There was tears. Yeah. Yeah, there was tears. Um, played really well, actually. Yeah. The team, like not me. Yeah. Um. It was good. Very good. Six goals. They

Reegs: a really terrible haircut on the other team you

Sidey: Yeah. Really bad. I'll show you afterwards. 'cause we got the goals videoed, um, by one of their sons, their goalkeepers son, uh, videoed them. But the

Reegs: I'm sort of imagining something halfway from what you described between Chesney, Hawkes and Terry Kins.

Sidey: Yeah. Basically. So the guy has got, um, ginger. Center part in curtains. Right. Um, but has now got like the monk bald patch. Yeah. But is desperately

Reegs: clinging onto it,

Sidey: or just in denial? I dunno. It's very strange because like, I think blokes look fine when they shave their head. So just do that. Or if you really have a problem with like not having hair, you could just get. You could go,

Reegs: go to Turkey now and

Sidey: get influence or whatever. Yeah. Um, and those options are far, far better than what is currently going on.

Cris: Anything is better than what he's got. If he, he doesn't have to shave it completely, right? Like with if, if he goes like three, even, even two, three something. So there's kind of patchy hair and whatever, but not too, too much. This is just a, a, a horrendous looking kind of hairdo. I, I, I don't even know if you try to explain to someone, you can't explain it until you see it, because it's just nothing you've ever seen before in your life.

Sidey: There was an old, uh, reeves and mortem sketch on the smell of Reeves Mort. They had like ludicrous haircuts and like one was like. Um, Stonehenge like moved up and down his head and all the, and it could have been like a haircut from one of those sketches. It's that like Rous. Anyhow, um,

Cris: six nil

Sidey: they got, they got an absolute, absolute punt, so that was good. Uh, I watched, um, I didn't watch the main feature. This, we didn't have time with all the, um, editing and golf that I watched. Um, and I, I didn't think I watched anything else either. Alright,

Cris: Rory. Rory won the golf.

Sidey: Roy did win the golf. Yeah.

Reegs: Yeah.

Cris: Are we happy with that? Yes. Okay, good. Yeah, I'm happy too. I don't really know why. I've never watched, I've not watched it. But

Sidey: Did you catch anything mix?

Reegs: Uh, I can't remember whether I talked about, I've been watching Bait, which

Sidey: is Oh yeah.

Reegs: Oh yeah. The ED thing. Um, it's quite interesting that this is, I think, I guess the first thing that Amazon, MGM are really doing with the bond license is to put out this thing that it is basically a discussion around both the Muslim and British communities rejecting the idea of a. Asian bond for various reasons. Um, and yeah, it's quite interesting from that perspective to, to see that for out

Cris: that what bait is about?

Reegs: Kind of, yeah. I mean it's, it's about a lot of stuff, but um, yeah, there's that going

Cris: seen it on the, sorry to interrupt. I've seen it on the algorithm where, you know, it's kind of there all the time, but I've, I've not really opened it, so

Reegs: no, I enjoyed it. It's, it looks fantastic. Um, it's very much a drama, you know, a relationshipy drama as well. But it's very funny and, uh, ed is a good actor, so

Cris: yeah. Cool.

Sidey: Cool.

Reegs: recommend for that.

Cris: How

Sidey: about you, Chris?

Cris: I've watched a couple of more episodes of the young Sherlock, but I think it's dragging out a little bit too much now. I'm starting to get annoyed. Um, I will watch the end of the series just to kind of watch a lot. I think I've got two more episodes to go, one or two, so I'll wait, I'll, I'll watch the whole thing and, and finish it, but I don't think I'll, I'll go back to it. Uh, it is got some nice actors and I like the way they speak because they speak proper English and it's quite.

Sidey: fancy. Right.

Cris: it's in Oxford and it's like quite interesting, but I, I dunno, it's just a bit now it's a bit after. It's quite a few episodes where it looks like you're not really getting anywhere. Yeah. Come on, let's wrap this up. It's one case you start, you start bringing the dad in and then the dad's a bad guy, and then. I said, all right, come on, let's finish it because it's getting too long now. So that, other than that, I didn't really have time with, between Champions League and Work. I didn't really have time to watch anything else. And

Sidey: Uh,

Reegs: the only other thing I watched, actually, it's worth noting, was I think Netflix's first foray into professional boxing. They screened the Tyson Fury fight and the Undercard was terrific on that. Had, um, kind of been, um, Richard R Pore. I've not seen him before, but he was well worth watching. Um, and their coverage was really good as well.

Sidey: Okay.

Reegs: Netflix definitely moving well, way more

Sidey: they're trying to line up Fury. Joshua fight.

Reegs: Yes. Well, they want that 'cause it'll make money. But who wants to see that fight now? Really? Who cares?

Sidey: years too late or five years too late, whatever. It's

Reegs: Fury's like a million times better than aj, so it doesn't really matter. And uh, well he not retired,

Cris: Joshua,

Sidey: I'm sure a big truckload of money Will, will, will entice him to come back a big payday. Um,

Reegs: But they're going for the Premier League as well. I think. Netflix, aren't they? So you could start to see Premier League games on Netflix as well, which should be quite interesting.

Sidey: Well, you won't see ham on that. No.

Reegs: No.

Sidey: Um, right. In that case, shall we get onto top five pockets? Yeah. Of varying different varieties? Yeah. Mm-hmm. Okay. Yeah, that's the thing.

Cris: blobby, blobby.

Sidey: the music. Yeah. Right. Christian? Yes. Do you wanna set the, uh, pockets rolling with your Yes.

Cris: I've got a pocket, an actual pocket, and it's a, it's a man holding another man's pocket in prison

Reegs: break. Oh, yes.

Sidey: yes. Tea bag. Yeah.

Cris: That was the first one I thought about when I, when I put pockets in films, because obviously this is very niche, right? And the only reason why pockets in films was because the,

Reegs: it was your prison bitch, wasn't it? If you held their pocket Yes. That was like your prison wife.

Cris: my, my,

Reegs: I've done it. I used to do it at, um,

Cris: When you were in

Reegs: in prison. Yeah, no, at work. It was a guy at work, Dan. I used to be like, come and hold my pocket,

Cris: But obviously we've done the midweek, which was God's pocket. And then I thought,

Reegs: mm-hmm.

Cris: uh, the, the, the main feature will be the, the film that we're gonna review later on. And I thought, pockets, pickpockets thieves. Yeah. Stuff like that. So, so that would be,

Reegs: no, but that's a good one. I'd completely forgotten about it. The guy's name was Teabag. Yeah. But the

Cris: what as an actor,

Sidey: he got quite a lot of work after that. Rod didn't, he

Reegs: loads all kind of playing the same part. 'cause he's kind of Creole, is he? He is got that kind of

Sidey: yeah, he was said good at pretending to be, if he wasn't, uh,

Cris: he played as a Russian in, in a film I've seen. Okay. He played the role as a Russian, I can't remember his name, but he's, he's got quite a generic name. I'm gonna say like a,

Reegs: no, it's something. Oh, I would remember if somebody said it, but,

Cris: uh, anyway, that, that is an actual pocket and someone's actually holding it

Reegs: didn't know that, but that's the thing they introduced quite early on. Is it? 'cause he's horrible teabag and he

Sidey: Yeah. He is a

Reegs: horrible, violent prison rapist. Um,

Cris: teabag in prison

Sidey: Yeah.

Reegs: What you getting his name?

Sidey: Theodore Tba

Cris: Bagwell is Robert Neer.

Reegs: Robert Neer. That's right. Yeah.

Cris: Sorry, I had to google

Reegs: Theodore Teabag. Bagwell. Very good. Yeah.

Cris: Uh, can I

Reegs: pass the baton?

Cris: the baton.

Reegs: Well, I'm going for Polly Pocket.

Sidey: Oh.

Reegs: Um, she was the central character in a line of pocket-sized dolls, uh, designed in 1983. Um, and you will know it if you are a parent because it has almost certainly clogged your Hoover at some point. Its whole idea was to have these miniature play sets and tiny, mini, mini dolls, uh, in it as a perfectly designed choking hazard. Um, and it's real appeal lies in the fact that your child can instantly lose all of the pieces and get very distressed about it. It's great design that the toy itself, um, was adapted to a series of director video animated movies and a TV series in 2018 that I think we reviewed on this here. Very pod. Okay.

Sidey: Okay. We've got some vintage poy pocket at home.

Reegs: Have you?

Sidey: Yeah, my daughter plays with, or we used to, um,

Cris: um,

Sidey: the wife Capto when she was a kid.

Reegs: It's big. My wife, like her is pricked up at Polly Pocket,

Sidey: Really? It's obviously

Reegs: big in the girl community. It's like the GI Joe of the Yeah,

Sidey: Yeah, the

Reegs: action force or whatever.

Sidey: Like I say, it is very small,

Reegs: Clogger of Hoover. Um, there's been a movie being talked about for ages that was helmed by Lena Dunham, um, and is in development Hell. Um, but Amazon, MGM are still intent on releasing it Post Barbie, um, Mattila, like strip mining their back catalog now, haven't they? Obviously

Sidey: Barbie. Oh.

Reegs: became this feminist icon movie and now they've got masters of the universe coming out and

Sidey: But go into the whole part thing, uh, the trailer. I agree with Pete. 'cause Pete went to watch the Mario movie with his kids. Yeah. And he said, Hmm. But most of the universe trailer looked a bit and I'd seen like a teaser trailer originally. Yeah. And I have got a thing for Alice Brie, but I watched the trailer and it does look shit and it really

Reegs: but it does look like it's embracing the full on. Like goofy ness of the whole story's gonna transform at some point into a muscle bound guy with like pants on and say, I have the power and all that, it's gonna happen. Which is quite good. Um, A man at arms Yeah. And stuff. Uh, but yeah, I mean it's, they're not gonna have everything being these brilliantly self-aware like reflections of society. Are they, some of them are gonna be horrible, pointless cash grabs and that's probably what those are gonna be.

Sidey: Um, yeah. Uh, sort of classical, one bit of, um, Oliver Twist.

Cris: Yeah.

Sidey: Fagan, his army of little shit bag. Um, pickpockets. Yeah. They're actual, just real pickpockets. Um, brogue won J so she's nicking stuff at the start. Yeah. Um, and then I think in her solo colon, a Star Wars story. When we first see him, he's a, he's a thief.

Reegs: Low down scoundrel.

Sidey: Yeah. In Elia, um, so's some Star Wars ones there.

Reegs: Yeah. It's funny, the Oliver Twist one is interesting, isn't it? 'cause obviously it was Dickens' novel and it features, I

Cris: the book. I've never seen the film.

Reegs: Well, there was, there's a few versions, isn't there? There's a

Sidey: 19, there's loads

Reegs: 1

Sidey: Ones, there's an Australian series.

Reegs: an Australian series, there's a Roman Planky one.

Sidey: He was a Roman

Reegs: he, he likes illegal things for children.

Sidey: So, um, so right in last,

Reegs: right in. Yeah. Um, and also there was an animated one.

Sidey: and

Reegs: The reason I mention it is because the idea of criminals and animals is right up there in Stephen King. His work in both Sho Shank Redemption and The Green Mile, he has characters who represent their humanity in prison by keeping a small pet in their

Sidey: Yeah, yeah, yeah. The Jack dor thing and the

Reegs: and the, yeah. Mr. Jingles. Yeah,

Cris: Yeah, yeah.

Reegs: So, Stephen King,

Sidey: up. Are they, uh, Ms. Fa in that lot? Are they the, are they like the sort of anti-heroes of the Oliver Tour story? Yeah,

Cris: They would be probably, yeah. Yeah.

Sidey: Uh,

Cris: I've got a film, uh, from Columbia. 2018 and Netflix. Um,

Sidey: Is it the haircuts one?

Cris: No, it's not. That is, uh, from Mexico. Uh, but this is, uh, called Maestros Debo,

Reegs: Debo,

Cris: which, uh, for our Duolingo friends out there means basically, uh, masters of. Thieving

Sidey: Okay. Or stealing.

Cris: and it's about these three young lads, well three boy, two boys and a girl that I've actually seen it as just, I quite liked it. To be fair. I, I do like these random South African or South American or Nigerian or whatever these that are on Netflix that they have the budget from Netflix. They don't really show the whole thing of how the country works, but this one is actually quite good. And it was 2018, 108 minutes and it's in Spanish. Um, a, a master of, um, the Art of Pickpocketing teaches aspiring teen thieves about what it takes to be a master of the game, um, which is quite good. And again, it's kind of like the same old story like the Turtle Ninja and their master, the this and their master. There's always someone that kind of teaches you the mentor, the the mentory bit, but. Um, yeah, Mabo a bit left field, but it's better

Reegs: I've not heard of it. Classic.

Cris: Uh, it's good. It is. Uh, it's, it's all right. And it's not too long. It's, it's quite interesting.

Reegs: Um, there was a BBC TV series that ran for ages I never watched called Hustle.

Sidey: Oh yeah.

Reegs: Uh, that was all about. Con artists and that sort of thing. But there was a spinoff TV series, reality TV show that you might remember that was also on the BBC that ran for 11 seasons called The Real Hustle. It was written by and starring a guy called Alexis Conran, and they would carry out essentially real scams on the public each week to then show you how they did it and what works to kind

Sidey: of help

Reegs: you avoid it. Sort of watchdog

Sidey: story. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

Reegs: I mostly remember it because the girl, there was two guys, one this kind of. Chubby guy with a beard pool. I think his name was, he was really the brains behind everything. But, you know, he was like a real nf, magician looking type. There was Alexis Conran who was the, you know, slick front man type thing. And then there was this girl called Jessica Jane Clement, who was just absolutely off the,

Sidey: knockout.

Reegs: Yeah. And she was, she would feature in a lot of their, um, scams, which all revolved, right? They, it was really interesting because they all pretty much had very similar components at the bottom, like being quite simple. And usually around people being able to sort of. Show their position of authority. So just wearing the fucking right uniform in the right place, having a lanyard, you know, around your neck in the right place or standing or leaning in the right place at the right time can get you into places. So it was quite fascinating. Um, and in their 11 series only, only went wrong once when, if you remember Caprice the model? Yeah. Do you

Sidey: Remember her? Yeah.

Reegs: Tony Adams. Yeah. Um, she ended up trying to do a counterfeit money thing and a member of the public spotted it and. So like it all crashed, but that was in once in 11 series. Oh,

Sidey: Ah, okay. Um, how about, um, I've got a couple of coats for you. Okay.

Reegs: Okay.

Sidey: Uh, inspector Gadget's coat. Yeah. Um, he's able to get lots of things out of his pockets that don't seem like they should be able to fit in there. Um, and like an extension to that. It always seems like a magical one. It's Willy Wonka's coat. Yeah. He's able to produce like massively long objects out of what seems like quite a small

Reegs: Well, what about the mask as well?

Sidey: Yeah. Yeah. He

Reegs: the mask. He pulls a hammer out of his, uh, things.

Sidey: Uh, and another one, technically it's a bag, but Hermione, um, it's an undetectable extension charm on a bag, which means she's able to keep

Reegs: what? Mary Popin style style

Sidey: exactly like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hammer

Reegs: space, they call that where Yeah. In cartoons and Right. Other things where you can bring out, you know, things that are bigger on the inside and all that stuff.

Cris: Yeah. I've got a secret pocket in a,

Reegs: don't tell anyone about it.

Cris: Well, no, it's, it's not mine. It's in a film and it's a secret pocket, uh, in the line lining of a jacket. Of a suit jacket is in, um, the Bradley Cooper, irresistible or whatever it's called, uh, the one where he takes the pill and he comes limitless. Limitless. That

Reegs: Oh yeah.

Cris: he goes to the tailors and he tells him to make a pocket in the lining of the coat where he can keep all his secret pills. Yeah. And uh, they do it and then someone spots him and they steal the pills from his pocket.

Sidey: and

Cris: that's a secret pocket in his, um, in his jacket.

Reegs: I quite liked that film. They made a TV series of it as well,

Cris: Did they? Yeah. Okay. I didn't know. I liked the film and I like the idea of it stuff. And he had Bobby De Niro as well. So

Reegs: it suffers from, the big problem of whenever you write about a genius is that what if you're a dumb ass writer just writing something for a minute, you have to pretend that you're a genius. You're like, Hmm, how do I do this? Do I make everybody else really stupid or. So,

Cris: Or how does that work being

Reegs: How does it really work being a genius, because I'm

Cris: but that has a pocket scene in it. Um, yeah. And I thought that would be a little bit out there.

Sidey: Hmm.

Reegs: Well, speaking of out there, I've got Superman 2025, um, which I was at first excited about and then skeptical of when I saw the trailer, but ended up loving it just for its depiction of, um, like all of the sier aspects really of the Superman mythology. But, you know, you could tell James Gunn is a big fan and put it all up on the screen. Bright colors, great tone, and like leaning into the do-gooder aspect, which is a bit of hope, is quite nice at this time. Um, but part of the, uh, plot sees evil tech billionaire Lex Luther unleash the hammer of

Sidey: Bia and

Reegs: villain on them, and he unleashes that from his pocket dimension.

Sidey: with the monkeys. Yeah,

Reegs: He has a Nexus portal of all these pocket dimensions linked together, one of which contains a troll farm of a thousand monkeys typing out abuse about Superman in like the most blunt repost to his critics of all time. I really liked that joke. I thought it was great. Um, and uh, also the pocket universe is helmed by this weirdo humanoid thing called Mr. Handsome. The, for some reason Lex Luther has a picture of like affectionately on his desk, but if you remember, he was like a hideous thing out of a Guillermo Del Toro type movie. Yeah. Um, so yeah, pocket dimension.

Sidey: Um, how about some songs? Super guys have one called Pickpocket. Um,

Reegs: sounds appropriate.

Sidey: Yeah. Um, I've got deep pockets by Drake. We all love Drake. Don't we pocket full of sunshine by one of your favorites? We, Natasha Bedingfield. Oh. Um, and just the Artful Dodger, the UK Garage Duo Garage. Is it Garage Duo? I dunno how. Garage.

Cris: Duo Garage. Oh, dod

Sidey: Garage.

Cris: DOD DOS Garage. And

Sidey: so there's those, um,

Reegs: And he was Dodger, D-O-D-G-A, wasn't he? I think

Sidey: The A for dodger? Yeah.

Reegs: In in when? From the r and b group or whatever

Sidey: from marriage, we eat

Reegs: That was it, wasn't

Sidey: it? Yeah. Um, and then what about, go back to a movie Kangaroo Jack. 'cause kangaroos have their own pouch pocket. Yeah. Yeah. Um, and then after that, I'm just gonna nominate

Cris: Yeah. I've got, um, we did a film I, which I nominated, called The Emperor of Paris with vsan cael, and the character was called The Dock. Yeah. And that would be, that's gonna be my norm, so I'm not gonna keep it too long. This is gonna be my norm, only because, uh, I've seen this scene live when I was a kid, when I was very young. My best mate, one of my best mate's brother, he used to be. He used to fight for money. He would be a bit of a, a scoundrel, let's say, in real life. And I, him and his mates had in the basement of the building where they lived a a, a mannequin with the bells on the pockets. And that's how they would train how to steal people. And who,

Reegs: Yeah, I've seen that before. In another movie,

Cris: whoever would, uh, would be able to steal the pocket from the shirt, like

Reegs: ringing the

Cris: the inside pocket, without the shirt. He would be the leader of the group, right? So they would, each day, that's how they would practice with the pockets. And in this, uh, thing, the dock becomes the, the emperor of Paris, because he's, uh, famously escaped prison 27 times. And he does a deal with the police. And the police is like, look, you go out, you cast thieves, you hand them over and you basically have a free hand, which has been done before with or after with other in FBI informants and people like that. But this is in the 18 hundreds in Paris and they have a scene in, uh, in this film in a one of the Paris dungeons where they basically have the same thing and the initiation of one of the young lads. Again, mentorship and all that. Is bringing him in. There's a table where everybody's eating and drinking and on the top of the table there's a mannequin. And while everybody's drinking and eating, this kid needs to take the wallet out or some money out of the mannequin's pockets without the, uh, bells being rang basically on the thing. So I've seen that live, I've seen it as a kid. It was unbelievable to see really like how these guys with two fingers would just take everything just like that and um,

Reegs: you ever been fingered in a public place side? Yeah. Yeah.

Sidey: Good.

Cris: So it's

Sidey: heard loads of stuff about, um, you know, when you go somewhere like Barcelona, when you're in the busy, like really tour bits, like, oh, there's millions of P pockets around, um, Vanny Venice is really bad for it. There's, there was a notorious group of old women who would do it. They would, you wouldn't, you would, you know, tourists would not suspect it from, um. Older women from older people like that, you think you gonna want to help them out, make sure they're right and

Reegs: And they're lifting your bloody

Sidey: Um, but I've never actually been, been a victim of, uh, fever Skullduggery like that. No. No.

Reegs: Anyone else?

Sidey: No.

Cris: No, no,

Reegs: no, no. Thank goodness.

Sidey: My

Cris: mom has, when I was, when I was younger and I.

Sidey: I,

Cris: I knew the people that would do it, and I asked one of them and he's like, oh, I didn't know it's your mom. And we'll, they, they stole her necklace. They basically just pulled the necklace from her neck. It wasn't even, it was like Turkish gold. It wasn't even like real gold, but yeah.

Sidey: still it's not yours. Yeah. Um,

Reegs: Chris, uh, well a quick shout out before my nom for a, a trope that I like, which is a character is given a keepsake or sometimes it happens out of nowhere. Um, but they are shot and then. Um, you know, the keepsake in the pocket, the

Cris: Oh, yes. Yeah. Oh, the Bible. Yeah.

Reegs: whatever stops the bullet going through. Notably, I think in kiss, kiss, bang, bang, they sort of subvert it because he's like, oh, I've got a book there. And then he looks and it's gone straight through the book and into his heart. Um, that's Shane Black for you. It's obviously been done in a billion different movies, but my nomination is going to be, uh, season eight, episode four of South Park. It's called You Got F in the A. And, um,

Cris: wonder what that stands for.

Reegs: It has Butter STOs, uh, flashback to his tap dancing performance. Do you remember this, Sadie? No.

Sidey: No.

Reegs: Um, he was involved, um, in a terrible accident. His right shoe flew off his foot and hit a stage light, causing it to fall down and kill eight people in the audience while he sings the song. I've got something in my front pocket for you, uh, which I, as soon as you said it last week, I just got, and it's like a mumbling or something. My fuck here for you. Why don't you put your hand in and see what it is? Uh, and that over and over and over again. So that is my nomination.

Sidey: Nice. Wonderful.

Reegs: Um, what's your favorite pocket side?

Sidey: My favorite pocket? Well, um, pocket watches.

Reegs: Yes.

Sidey: Yeah. Quick couple of pocket watches. The white rabbit in Allison Wonderland. Yeah. Yeah. Um, Martin McFly, when he goes to Doc Brown's. Yes. How's the start? There's millions of clocks and there's also some pocket watches. Um. This isn't a pocket watch, it's not relevant at all. But, um, Cogsworth from Beauty and the Beach Yeah. Is literally just a clog. Um, and Flavor Flav Yeah. Has loads of oversized, I don't think yous, they're clog. You would need an enormous pocket.

Reegs: A huge

Sidey: to get those in. Yeah. Um, but I've also got, uh, when

Reegs: when a guy opens up his jacket like that and he's got a load of watches

Sidey: in his thing, does that kind

Reegs: of count? That's sort of thing. They're all sort of in his pocket though. I don't know.

Cris: is that

Sidey: jacket? Jacket wash? Um, Robinhood, prince of Thieves.

Cris: Yeah.

Sidey: From the Nintendo NES in 1991. Okay. A key piece of the actual mechanics of the game was that he could pickpocket. Alright. Yeah, so, so movie, video game tie in. Yeah. With featured actual, you know, video game pickpocketing.

Reegs: Yeah. It's a dime a dozen pickpocketing in games now though, isn't it? Yeah, under a

Sidey: Yeah. Mechanic. But this was retro

Reegs: 1991.

Sidey: Yeah,

Cris: that is,

Sidey: it's bigger than that. Brilliant. Uh, so we need two more pockets

Reegs: or pick

Sidey: pockets of whatever, or, or, yeah. We haven't got any pocket squares. No. Just saying. Um,

Reegs: top hot pockets. We've got none of those.

Cris: they call in prison when they, when they have the

Sidey: thing

Cris: in the, in the back pocket.

Sidey: That's something, right?

Cris: no, when they bring stuff in their, a-hole. This

Reegs: that's called like the gentleman's pocket or something.

Cris: called something like a. Prison.

Reegs: smuggles pocket, a prison pocket,

Cris: like that.

Sidey: Okay. Well we could get some of those.

Cris: So I, I didn't, I I did kind of think

Reegs: get some of those.

Sidey: Let us know your favorite pocket. Yeah,

Cris: please.

Sidey: Uh,

Reegs: Right. Let, should we just cram straight through it? Yeah. Yeah.

Cris: We,

Sidey: I mean, I,

Cris: don't have to rest the years, so,

Sidey: um, not even seeing it. So again,

Cris: Well, uh, we are going to review. Uh, is it 2018?

Reegs: It

Sidey: was Sure is.

Cris: Yeah. Um,

Sidey: uh,

Reegs: den of Thieves starring Gerard Butler. Yeah. Um, and this was a bit of a passion project for him in some ways. Um, he was a producer. Um.

Sidey: um,

Reegs: And it was written by the guy who did London as fallen. Yes.

Sidey: Oh, I like the fallen

Reegs: Yeah. So that gives you a sort of flavor of what we might be talking about here. Um, and it was in development. Hell, for a long time it was gonna be nearly become a TV series, all sorts of stuff to it, but eventually it became a 140 minute movie. Starring Gerard Butler and it opens with a bunch of onscreen text Establ establishing us in Los Angeles. Yeah. And telling us it. It's the bank robbery capital of the world. 2,400 robberies a year. 44 a week. Nine a day. One

Sidey: that right?

Reegs: minutes. That's what it says on the crawl.

Cris: Yeah, that's what it says in the when. Yeah, the beginning.

Sidey: Fucking hell. That's a lot, isn't it? Yeah.

Cris: And it just shows is

Reegs: it zooms down from an aerial shot onto a, the armored truck. Armored truck

Cris: Going to get donuts.

Reegs: They get donuts, they pull over, it's all kind of normal, and then suddenly these two SUVs pull up outta nowhere. Um, it's all at night, obviously. And, uh. These guys get out and they're like pro, obviously paramilitary, like, you know, very high powered assault weapons, uh,

Cris: gas mask, uh, the bulletproof vest, every

Reegs: like, these guys are not fucking about, they're like ordering the guys to the floor. They know they're gonna press the alarm. They do this, that, and they look very professional and all this sort of stuff. So you can already tell that they're military or trained in some

Cris: comparison.

Reegs: Yeah. Um, unfortunately the job that looks like it's could, could be under control with no. Si kind of injuries. It a guy, it's not really clear. Does he reach for his gun?

Cris: He, he kind of does. Yeah. He kind

Reegs: not really

Cris: The, the driver of the armored truck.

Sidey: yeah.

Reegs: It kicks off a big gunfight. Well, and the guy, a one sided gunfight, the all of the security guys are killed and the guys in the black. Tactical gear. Fuck off. Uh, taking the

Cris: of them, one of them gets left behind because he's

Reegs: dead. He gets shot. Yeah. That's what kills officer. One of them

Cris: And they shoot quite a few police cars as well, like properly, as soon as, and they, you can see like straight away, uh, military jargon again, right to incoming left or whatever, however they call it. But it's, you can, sorry. You can clearly see. That they know what they're

Sidey: doing.

Reegs: Oh, yeah. Well-trained. Yeah. Uh, not just a bunch of guys like being chances. This was a well organized, planned

Cris: and then they disappear into a warehouse and we see, uh, OSHA Jackson Jr. Uh, looking underneath the truck.

Reegs: and.

Cris: And

Sidey: and.

Cris: we get to see kind of the, the, we meet the crew. Yeah, we

Reegs: we meet, um, they're led by a guy called Merriman, uh, Pablo Schreiber thir, uh, he was in 13 hours. Yeah. If you ever saw that one. Yeah. And they're all kind of physically imposing gym monster, you know, protein shake, tattoo snake, tattoos.

Sidey: that

Reegs: sort of

Cris: is him is 50 cent

Reegs: Yeah, he's

Sidey: Curtis Jackson.

Reegs: Yeah. Or Jackson. He, he basically only has two scenes, one of which is his death scene. And uh, the other is a scene where it's basically a complete ripoff of the scene from Bad boys. Two, where he takes

Sidey: if you're gonna rip something off

Reegs: daughter into the garage. He takes his daughter on prom night into the garage, her visiting boyfriend,

Sidey: give him a hard time, and he's like

Reegs: 15 of the most enormous guys that you've ever seen in your life just

Sidey: not intimidating

Reegs: really tough. And, uh, Kurt

Cris: yeah, he doesn't say much, but he is in quite a few of the scenes.

Reegs: Yeah. He doesn't have anything to do though.

Cris: Fitty Fitty is there.

Reegs: Yeah. Uh, so yeah, we meet them all. And like you say, we immediately latch on to, um, O'Shea Jackson, Jr. Is Donny

Sidey: as our, that's Ice Cube son, isn't he? Yes.

Reegs: Cube's son, and he's brilliant in this and he's our kind of every man sort of, you know, the character that you're supposed to latch onto because pretty much everyone's an asshole

Cris: Well, he is the only one that doesn't really, he's not really jacked. Yeah. He never takes a stop off. He's, he's,

Sidey: boo. He's

Cris: one that gets a bit

Reegs: he seems like a bit of an outsider to this impossibly macho. Um, lifestyle. So we see the, this crew and then we meet Gerald Butler's. This is amazing because Gerald Butler turns up, he's right on the verge of mega acting in this, like he's going big with his performance and his character is a total asshole. It's like drunk all the time. They, they're basically a gang, like they look worse than the guys that they're following.

Cris: Yeah,

Reegs: And they're like hard drink the sheriff's department. Yeah.

Cris: crime or whatever unit. Yeah. But he, on

Reegs: they're just hard drinking. There's always prostitutes. He

Cris: to get home. Uh, to not make any noise. He tries to go through the back door, the latch is on so he can't get in sneaks through the window, like in his own gaff. Yeah. And then his misses goes down the stairs. He drinks milk from the carton and his misses comes down the stairs and she's like, it's six o'clock in the morning. What's going on? Yeah.

Sidey: Yeah.

Reegs: I mean, and they're always like out with prostitutes and drinking it up and all that sort of stuff. So they, they're worse than the, the

Cris: And this is the first scene, because it's the first scene when we see 'em. And basically she got a text from him in the night saying,

Reegs: well, we actually see him at the crime scene first. 'cause he goes, yeah, he visits the crime scene. Okay. Uh, because there's an amazing moment. Obviously the cop was killed getting donuts and he reaches, he gets a donut, like the box is covered in blood and he gets a donut and starts eating it

Sidey: at the crime scene.

Reegs: Scene's fucking amazing. Yeah. And it's like a, 'cause there's a whole jurisdiction, like this movie just deals really in cliches and stuff, but. In a great way, but because there's an FBI guy who's very straight laced and they're constantly arguing about who's got the scene

Sidey: and this,

Reegs: and the other. And then you're right, he goes home, his wife kicks, uh, well, his wife leaves him with their two kids, tired of his, his drunken womanizing and coming back late, covered in blood, I guess.

Cris: guess.

Sidey: Um,

Reegs: And so she fucks off to go and live with her boyfriend for a bit of the movie.

Cris: Yeah.

Reegs: Um, so Nick, his, his team that

Cris: big Nick O'Connell or something,

Reegs: got Yeah, that's his big Nick. Yeah. Big. Everyone calls him Big Nick. And he's like, he's put on a bit of timber for this role. Gerald De um, not Gerald Depa Jew. Gerald

Sidey: He has put

Reegs: Butler. But he started to look, ironically, a bit like Depa Jew because he gets quite big in this. But yeah. Anyway, he's been tracking Ray Merriman, this guy, because he's known to them. I think he's only been out of prison

Cris: Yeah. Six months or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um,

Reegs: Um,

Cris: he goes straight away. He's like, do we still have a trail on that Donny kid? Yeah. And the, his crew is like, yeah, we still got a track on him. And then he, they

Reegs: him off the street.

Cris: He basically just tasers him.

Reegs: They taser him and they take him back to their, I didn't, wasn't sure what this was, an

Cris: a hotel room, I

Reegs: Ri full of prostitutes, drugs and guns. Yeah. Um, and then, you know, they, they choke him. They beat him up a bit. They threaten him. They say, we don't really want you, we want Ray. Yeah. So give us Ray.

Cris: Because he's like, look man, I dunno. I just work in

Reegs: a bar. I'm the driver. He tells him some story about I'm the driver.

Cris: he's like, he shows him a picture of him and Ray Merriman. So he just kind of goes, we got this picture of you speaking to him. Oh, he just comes to the bar and then he chokes him and he is like, all right, yeah, we, we done this, we've done that. We hit this. We. And what is the next plan? And also why did they steal an armored car with no cash in it? Yeah. Because basically that's what it is. The, the, the first scene of the movie, when they steal the armored truck, apparently there's no money in it.

Sidey: They just steal

Cris: the truck.

Reegs: just steal the truck. So that's the big mystery. But the mystery isn't gonna last for very long because Ray is gonna take his crew out, um, to tell us what the big heist is. And the heist is for the Federal Reserve. And they tell us this, this building's never been robbed and it's life. It's full of like hardcore systems and people in there. You know, it's got its own shit going on, and he's telling us all this. He's like, oh, you can't even stand outside it for two minutes casing the joint because your face will be on a register. And now whilst he's explaining it for about five minutes, stood right outside it.

Cris: Yeah, they're in a, they're in a parking,

Reegs: I can't believe they never would've thought to check the parking lot. It was anyway. Yeah, it, it's silly. But yeah, they, they're setting it all up for the big heist, but you still don't really know how it's all gonna play out. Um,

Cris: And this is the thing by now, we know that Donny's been taken and he's been interacting with, uh, big Nick when the police, and

Reegs: they know it as well, they, they see him with Big,

Cris: yeah. Big

Reegs: Big Nick.

Cris: And, and, and then, but, but Merriman makes a point of sending the guys it Doco or Bosco or something. Yeah. To see who shows up at the crime scene, who's the lead investigator. And he goes, know your enemies. Uh, and then we get the scene where Gerald Butler kind of goes on a debrief of Ray Merriman, DY all these boys is like, oh, they're ex marsoc. They're all Delta, Delta force. I dunno, whatever MARSOC means the, the Navy.

Reegs: whatever. They were hardcore and they were all

Cris: They've all been to Afghanistan, they've been to whatever, they all know what they're doing. And they all played football. Yeah. Because that was the, the thing, they all played football at some college and Right. And this is one of them that Merriman asks. Fitty. He goes, have you seen Nick O'Brien? Have you ever played with against? He's like, yeah, yeah. He was a defensive tackle linebacker at,

Sidey: He was all state, varsity, blah. Exactly. Something one of them. Right. So,

Cris: um, and that's how they, they kind of go and then the. I think before anything else happens is the scene where they all kind of hang out at that restaurant and, uh,

Reegs: well just before that, Butler's has to go and sign the divorce papers. Yes. Which he does very passively, aggressively. Um, that honestly wandering drunk into that

Cris: a dick. Yeah.

Sidey: But

Reegs: it, it's nice that the film has some other things on its mind other than just the ridiculously macho showdown between Nick and, and

Cris: But he's such a dick.

Reegs: but he's such a dick. Yeah. He goes into this dinner party and he's just like, exactly what you'd think could drunken ex-husband type would be like.

Sidey: But

Cris: he's also a police officer and he knows, he's like, haha, call the police. Like stuff like that. Then you're like,

Reegs: What a dick. Yeah, what an absolute dick. Um, so yeah. Then after that, seemingly a bit self-destructive. He goes out for dinner and Ray and the boys are there and he's there with his crew and he's like, all right, Donny and all this stuff.

Cris: does, they do it on purpose,

Reegs: Yeah, of course he

Cris: then obviously there's all, all the Merriman crew and all the police crew and the Merriman crew are all the misses, like all with the women and that, and j

Reegs: of them are the prostitutes

Cris: And Jerry Butler makes a

Sidey: point of saying he know he knows them. Yeah.

Cris: and Jerry Butler makes a point of saying, oh, we're not here for the food, we're here for the ass. Yeah.

Reegs: Yeah.

Cris: And

Sidey: And

Reegs: yeah, talking about his misses, basically

Cris: the guy's like, mate, we're here with our families. Yeah. If you want a problem,

Reegs: And obviously Ray knows who Nick is and Nick knows who Ray is, but they have this like pretend conversation where he's like, oh, I know you from the gym and all this sort of stuff. Like it's, it is again trying to be a bit like heat with these two guys being

Sidey: Yeah. It does sound a lot like, you know,

Reegs: It is all the time. This movie is

Sidey: the two crews, the police crew and

Reegs: Yeah. And all of the

Sidey: and the leaders of the crew know each other

Reegs: in public and all this sort of stuff. Um, but anyway, so we get a bit of like. Backwards and forwards, don't we? We don't wanna get into it too much. 'cause there's still quite a few things to talk about. Yeah. Um, basically they set up this job that's gonna be happening at this bank. The, the,

Cris: Well, we don't know that because all, all that we have until now is pointing to the Federal Reserve.

Reegs: Yeah. But then, then he goes, um,

Cris: Donny Donny, they send basically Donny to, to Big Nick and they say on Friday it's happening. I don't know where. And then they put a GPS or something. They follow them at the Pico Trust or

Reegs: something like that. Yeah, some tiny bank out in the middle of nowhere, which we kind of know is not the target here. So you are like, and they go in real quick, but it's, and they sort of like in broad daylight, these guys just turn up in a van and just like go into this bank and take it down really quickly. And they're being, their, their like modus operandi now is completely different from what we've seen in the rest of the film,

Cris: right? Yeah. And they do go and they're like,

Reegs: immediately get the bank manager and go Right phone. The police don't get a negotiated, we're gonna start shooting hostages. Like it's completely, they're not

Cris: 10 million in a helicopter, which is nothing like they've done before.

Reegs: They're more like really trained. Get in, get out real quick. Like

Sidey: And this

Cris: is just a. It's a normal bank. Yeah. That's not really what they've been doing, but obviously we know there's something else gonna happen.

Reegs: and Nick has followed them down there with his crew, and then suddenly the police start turning up because they've rung the police from inside and he's like, what the fuck's going on? This is my thing. I'm trying to watch them. Yeah. What's going on? And all these police, and he's like trying to suppress the scene and then suddenly it clicks for him like, hang on a minute,

Sidey: we've done,

Reegs: in there.

Cris: We also get,

Reegs: because he, he, he's like, no, fuck it. I'm going in right now. And like through the front door and when he goes in there, it's empty. Apart from the hostages and the women that they said that they'd. Killed. You see her, she's in the bottom in the toilet and actually they've escaped through a hole in the floor, right into the sewers. So they fucked. It was basically just to draw the attention for ages, put a load police presence there, and Nick there, and they fucked off somewhere else. Right. And where they fucked off to is the Federal Reserve. They've got the cash truck and they've told us about this plan to like sneak. Well, basically you watch it all unfold. Osha Jackson, Jr. Is snuck in inside these, um, money carts into the heart of the, um, operation, and he's got an EMP in there that takes out all of the, like cameras and stuff because you see the systems, like nobody's really allowed to be left alone with the money and like there's counts everywhere and all

Cris: and the guards don't, are not allowed in the counting rooms. It's only the counting people that have the key for the, from the counting rooms.

Reegs: Yeah.

Sidey: Yeah.

Reegs: So there's a bit of like tension here as he gets out and there's a brown out for the cameras and they're trying to fix him. You've got two minutes and all this, that and the other, and he's shoving. Money into these black bags and throwing them down to a very conveniently placed garbage shoot that's right in the middle of the room. Yeah. Um, and anyway, they do get it obviously all back together and it's like quite tense. And this scene goes on for quite a long time of them infiltrating and going, but for the

Cris: person and then they get stopped. Let me see your paperwork. Yeah, Donny gets out. Oh, you are not logged in, but you're logged out. What's

Reegs: happening? Well, we've seen Donnie sneak in once before. Yeah. As under the guise of being a, um, delivery, like a delivery type guy.

Cris: yeah. Chinese delivery guy. Yeah.

Reegs: that's what he's done this time. And then just as he is walking on his way out and you think it's all gonna be okay, then the woman phones back. 'cause I did think this, he's left it from the job that he did two weeks ago. The food in the roof, it's gonna be fucking disgusting. Yeah. And when she opens it, she's like, Ugh. And then call that guy back.

Sidey: I

Cris: want my money back.

Reegs: want my money back. So just as he is about to get away with it, the thing goes out about a guy in a red shirt and Nick's team immediately comes up and takes Donnie off the, uh, off the streets. Off the road streets. Yeah. Literally like meters away from meeting up with the guys and getting away. So they put him in his car, handcuff him, beat him up a bit.

Sidey: He

Cris: proper beat him up though.

Reegs: And they're like, where's, you know, where are they meeting again? Where's the re what's it called? The relay point or

Cris: yeah, the, yeah.

Sidey: the, yeah.

Reegs: He tells 'em it's some salvage yard. So they head on down to there and as, as they get there, they see the car pulling out with the crew and you've seen them stuffing getting, there's been a whole bit with, because they had to actually follow the garbage. They don't get the money out. It actually comes out in the rubbish lorries and they follow this rubbish lorry down. That's where you see Max Holloway as one of the rubbish lorry drivers. Um, and anyway, so they basically follow Ray and the money and the rest of the crew. Down on this, the LA motorway. Yeah. And suddenly there's a traffic jam and then it's just like sicario

Cris: basically. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just a traffic jam. And then

Reegs: Nick makes the crazy decision to

Cris: Nick gets outta the car,

Reegs: all strapped up with like machine guns and all this stuff. There must be a hundred civilian cars there at leased

Cris: between them,

Sidey: Really?

Reegs: And they're like just machine guns.

Sidey: Oh, highway traffic. Yeah.

Cris: And, and they just, that's it. We need to take them out now.

Reegs: Yeah. Because this is the place you do it

Cris: looking in the mirror and he just goes, is that. Is that they look and then you can see them just putting all the vests on and that, and then he's

Sidey: out of the, uh, police procedural play. Yeah.

Cris: And then he just goes like, Merriman and his crew, he's like, give me the machine. And honestly, he gets the biggest machine

Sidey: gets a

Reegs: it's called, and he puts it on the roof on his car and he just goes like firing through everybody. Like, I dunno how many people would've died there. They only show you about four or five of the people getting shot or whatever. But honestly, how many, many civilians were in the way as well? Um, so it's this great big gun battle, which is actually really nice and effectively done. Again, very heat light with the sound, you know, the real sound of the shots and that shots seeming to have real impact and members of the gang getting shot and members of his gang getting shot. And eventually it comes down to just Gerard Butler running after Ray. And they have like a little standoff and cat mouse

Cris: see Merriman doesn't have any more bullets. He still put the clip in and he kind of goes

Reegs: by cop,

Sidey: the car

Cris: to make sure, because there's a scene at the beginning where when he gets outta prison. Yeah. The prison guard says, see you later, Ray.

Sidey: And he's like, never coming back.

Reegs: I'm never Yeah.

Cris: He's like, nah.

Reegs: So he, he kind of compels, if you like Gerard Butler to kill him. Um, and. That's it. And so then they go back to the back of the car to go and retrieve the money and they open it up and Dun wouldn't, you know, it's all shredded money. It's just all shredded full of like cinder block stuff or whatever. And the guy's like, what the fuck are they making snow globes? And uh, then it cuts back to you go to look to the car where Donnie was, um,

Cris: chained because he was chained to the car.

Reegs: And he's gone. And so that's it. And then he's been working at a bar. So Gerald Butler goes down to the bar and this is when the movie turns into the usual suspects for the last

Sidey: minutes. Oh really?

Cris: Yeah.

Reegs: And he basically starts looking around loose lips, sink ships he sees. Then suddenly he looks around and he's like, oh, that's the guy from the count room. Uh. The Federal Reserve walking in to have a drink. Oh, where's Donny? Oh, he left a couple of days ago. All this, that and the other, and then he starts piecing it together. It was actually all Donny's idea. He was the one. And he looks, he sees the football team because, um, I show Jack. They're watching Brazil, France. Yeah. Um, on the football and Osha Jackson, Jr. Was a goalkeeper. Was

Sidey: a soccer,

Cris: he was a goalie for a soccer team with the Samoans.

Reegs: and the rest of all these other characters that have been in the movie sort of peripherally. And

Cris: of them are lorry drivers or tech something. They're not really They

Reegs: workers. Like even the, the women that complained about the food we're in on

Cris: it. Yeah.

Reegs: Um, so suddenly he, like, Gerald Butler's just looking around like, holy fuck. He got away with it. And then next we cut to London, London. And this guy who I didn't recognize, oh, I recognize the face. He comes in, oh, gov. Now let's get a pint and all this. And, um, the guy's like you hear him off screen with a really bad English accent trying to do it. Oh, hello mate. Haven't seen you around. You

Cris: to sound British, which is alright. Mate

Reegs: So the big reveal is that he's bought a pub and he's like, Michael Bisping's, like, oh yeah, I work at the Diamond Exchange. And he's like, the beer's on the house and they're setting it up and all the crew are

Sidey: do another

Reegs: they're gonna do another job at the thing and thoroughly fucking ridiculous this movie. And like I say, the comparisons to heat are there because they're in there in the thing. But I really enjoyed this. It's good fun, it's really entertaining. It's two hours, 20 minutes and it fucking zips by

Cris: and it's, but it's full on

Sidey: action. High octane. Yeah.

Reegs: But there is enough in it, like the scene where, you know, you remember like Gerald Butler's a really fucking good actor. The scene where he goes to see his kid on the day, like he doesn't know whether he is ever gonna see his kid before. And, uh, he like, he's got his hand through the school fence and they just chat for a couple of minutes and then he goes back to his car and he cries quietly for about a minute and is like, that's fucking top quality acting

Cris: And then he goes back to being an absolute asshole. Yeah. And also in one of the ones that we didn't really mention, there's a lot of little bits that kind of make the whole story in one of the, the whole little bits is the fact that Merriman's misses a stripper. And Jerry Butler goes and Shags there.

Sidey: Yeah. And.

Cris: And Merman goes home and Jerry Butler's in his gaff.

Sidey: Alright?

Reegs: Yeah. So he turns up, he comes home, Ray and his butler's already there, shagging his misses, and, but then it turns out that Ray Merriman knew that was gonna happen. Yeah. And fed him some false information. So you get

Cris: and he gets the phone number and he calls him like, oh, do you like what you see? So it's. It's, it's done quite cleverly. Obviously there's ridiculous scenes where the guy shoots through a crowd of cars and all that kind of stuff,

Reegs: Yeah. But

Sidey: look,

Cris: an action movie. You know what you're gonna get after 30 seconds of the film, right? Once they start shooting the police at the beginning.

Reegs: But all those scenes are done really, really well. Yeah. Like it looks great. The budget's good, the acting strong. It's silly and very entertaining.

Sidey: was, um. One of those movies that critics didn't like, but audiences did

Reegs: well, audiences were right.

Sidey: Yeah. Um, the budget for it was 30 million us.

Reegs: Yeah. It must have made enough because it got sequel, didn't it?

Sidey: it? It made uh, just north of 80 million.

Cris: Okay. Yeah. That's not bad. I

Sidey: Good. Um, good numbers for Joe Butler. 'cause he put up quite a lot of the money for I think. Mm-hmm.

Reegs: Um, so

Sidey: Certainly some of it. So, um, that was good. Would you watch the se, have you seen the segel? Would you seen I

Reegs: nearly, if I'd had time

Sidey: gone straight in,

Cris: I would wanna watch the second one because obviously there's, at the end, everyone dies except for Donny and Gerald

Reegs: and Gerald Butler. And those are the two characters that you'd wanna see again in the movie, like Yeah,

Sidey: because everyone

Cris: else is like, don't get me wrong, Merriman is

Reegs: good. Oh, he's good. But he could be changed with another muscle

Cris: yeah, he could be, he could be any big fucking, yeah. So, yeah. I, I like this though.

Reegs: And, and Osha Jackson Jr. I, I remember him in Ingrid goes west that we watched and he was really funny in that he was playing the guy who was always high all the time. And, uh, this is again, a different sort of role for, I think he's a good actor

Cris: Yeah, he is actually. He is good. Yeah.

Reegs: Um, yeah, very good. I couldn't remember whether I'd seen this before, um, but it was definitely a strong recommend for it. And if you like, MMA, max Holloway, Michael Bisping, um, Oleg, uh, OV Ro

Cris: RO Ole t who is another one of the drivers. He's a legend. T he's a legend of

Reegs: and there's probably more in there that I missed, but you know, for that point of view it's worth seeing as

Cris: well. Yeah. It's, it is quite funny to see all of them and just kind of, oh, oh, you are in it. What, what are you do? Yeah, it's, it is good. Yeah. I like that

Sidey: Five tens outta five.

Reegs: Yeah, for sure. Yeah. Strong. Strong.

Cris: Yeah. Beep be beep, beep, beep.

Reegs: So Dan's back next week.

Sidey: Yeah, I don't know what day he gets. I think it's the Thursday he said he's back back. So he, uh,

Reegs: if we could get NUMs out a bit earlier, it might help me.

Cris: Well look, it's, I've done this week.

Sidey: Actually is it you? It's

Cris: probably you.

Reegs: No, it's you, isn't it?

Sidey: Uh, well, we'll figure out on the group. Um, but yeah. Yeah, they the better. 'cause I, two weeks in a row, I've only watched one of the things, which is shit. Um, but I did sort of enjoy the, um. God's pocket, God's hot pocket was, was sort of bleak, but quite enjoyable. And that De Eve sounded excellent.

Reegs: I think you'd really

Sidey: I'm gonna check that

Cris: Oh yeah. Honestly, I think you would, again, you know what you're gonna get, right? It's not, you're not gonna win any Oscars, but it's a good

Sidey: action. Well, I know someone that listens to the pod will be pleased that we watched to Jared Butler. Yeah. Movie. So that's good. Um, but all that remains is to say society signing out

Cris: Lot of it that I

Reegs: and re's is gone, I guess

Cris: he's left the building. Nice. Well done, Jen.