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• Congratulations posted on 17 June 2009

  I met Paris, the director at Salerno film festival, we were both in competition with our films. And the first minute I saw him in his hat, I had the feeling that this guy is something really interesting. Then I watched his film, and I was really amazed. It is not like a first film, but the work of a real industry professional with a lot of real talent. The story is clever, very well written, the actors are just good as well, the actions are perfect, and the whole thing is just catching you from the first minute till the end titles. Funny, entertaining, this is what cinema is for. So, Paris, Congratulations! It is good to have you as a friend....Erik Novak

• go and see! posted on 04 April 2009

  Great! The opposite of what I thought it would be, and all the better for it! The presence of Vas Blackwood and the robbery theme made me think it might be the rumpled spawn of Lock, Stock, but don't let this throw you.Daylight Robbery is a different beast altogether.Instead of convoluted, contrived plot and cheap laughs, Leonti keeps it real and lets us go along for the ride with real, non sensational, believable characters.A brave, distinctive movie about what it's probably really like to rob a bank.

• poor poor, poor posted on 17 February 2009

  Did I miss something, this was an old formula, done badly.What more can I say - save your money; the postives must not have seen the slow paced predictable, dumb movie.No interest suspense, acting, music - I reckon this was ameuteur dramatics production that has gone into TV!I was bored, but kept watching as so many people cant be wrong - oh yes they can! Poor everying, from music to terrible acting. At least they used a (former) real NatWest Bank! No saving graces, don't waste your time and money!So save up and wait, watch Taken (a proper movie), not this tripe.

• the perfect example of a great script, strong acting, and tight directing conquering a low budget. posted on 02 March 2009

  almost immediately after the film begins, you are hooked into a quick succession of action and plot turns, and before you know it you are at the end of the movie feeling like you stepped off a roller coaster. i wasn't bored for a minute. there is strong presence of the good dry sense of humor that we come to love from the British and, one of my favorite aspects of the film, its respectful homage or nod to some of the great heist movies and directors.it is also not without its drama which is pulled off nicely by the ensemble.all in all a great film and an inspiration for great writing and low budget film making.

• I felt robbed - and I didn't even pay to see it posted on 24 January 2009

  I think the fact that this movie is already on television for free says it all really. All or nearly all of the positive reviews are written by shills.This movie is dire, you find yourself waiting a long time for things to happen which never arrive, the acting was weak, awful in some parts. The heist itself was not clever or well executed, and basically took an hour to show what could have been done in five or ten minutes. I can't comment on the ending because i turned it off and went to sleep. Really.Avoid at all costs, I like rubbish low budget British movies but this really really isn't worth it.

• Disappointing posted on 21 December 2008

  As a British ex-pat, I am always keen to watch British movies, especially the crime/bank job/gang genre. However, I was very disappointed by this very slow-moving, cliché-ridden attempt...it was like watching a bad episode of The Bill (or maybe Eastenders, given that it had Shaun Williamson and Paul Nicholls in it!).The story was dull, the casting poor, the acting wooden - even Geoff Bell seemed like he was just going through the motions without putting in much of an effort. Maybe I have become too accustomed to watching better and more natural 'bad boys' like Jason Statham, Colin Farrell, and even Danny Dyer in such roles.*Big yawn - don't bother watching*

• Fantastic Movie!! If you are looking for BLAND, BORING and BADLY MADE posted on 27 November 2008

  Well I hate to say it but ever since the good old days of Trainspotting, Gangster Number 1, Lock Stock and Snatch there has been a high influx of crap spin off gangster movies flowing out of the UK.This indeed is another addition to to the ever growing 'shite movie' category. The most frustrating part of this film is that it is so very, very, very unrealistic.I'll give you a brief rundown of the scenario: It starts off with a group of lads arriving at the airport all going on a holiday to watch the footy (in Spain I think). They go to check in early, the lady at the desk tells them she cant really check them in so early but will make an exception this time (because one of them told her she looks like Angelina Jolie, yeah possibly if she had a head that resembled a boulder off the Great Wall of China and a pair of lips that make Leslie Ash's look minuscule), this leaves them just over an hour to go and watch the footy at the pub (so they tell her). In actual fact their plan is to leave the airport rob a bank by backing up their van through the banks front entrance and holding hostages. They do so with quite ease (although one of them gets injured upon impact), they spend about 20 mins of the so called one hour they have arguing about what the hell to do, plus one of the hostages grabs a gun and hold them up for more time. Police arrive on the seem and are just basically sat outside doing F.all no use of heat censoring scopes to see whats going on behind the curtained windows, no attempt to fire in some CS gas, no attempt to enter the bank from the roof and work their way down. No they believe its best to just sit and wait for the criminals to take their time pissing around in the lobby, taking their time to find the passage of escape. The vault contains a crap load of money, far more for than the amount of bags they were seen carrying in to the bank. They created a sort of underground tunnel beforehand so they could use a pulley to pull the bags of cash into a sort of warehouse place, which the movie likes to make you believe is several kilometers away but in actual fact the tunnel looks at most about 10 meters long. In the meantime the man down (the one injured on impact) nearly dies and requires a blood transfusion by a doctor who is brought in and takes pride in asking stupid bloody questions like 'Why do people like you do this' and this is 'Very wrong'. Did I mention that the man he's telling this to is a lunatic with a loaded shotgun?? Anyway, along the way the pulley gets shagged, the tunnel caves in however the last man stuck down there manages to dig himself free with his bare hands. There is a small twist at the end which I must admit was a little unexpected but none the less rather idiotic at the same time. They all manage to make it on the plane just in time while another one of them has the cash stored safely in a caravan.... let me mention for the final time THIS IS ALL DONE IN ONE HOUR. Not to mention the bollock load of evidence they left behind, such as blood, fingerprints and the tights they are wearing on their heads are pretty much useless as you can quite clearly see their faces.I'm not going to tell you whether you should watch this movie or not, I'm sure you will be able to make your own decision on that matter.Hope this helped, and thank you for reading.

• What a debut !! posted on 13 November 2008

  How can one person write, produce and direct such an entertaining film. Very believable with good acting.No CGI, just good old fashioned acting which has made the storyline true to life.Great soundtrack. This low budget British film is a winner and will make Paris Leonti famous. People in the know should be hammering on his door if they want success. A cheeky beginning and then the action starts.... and keeps on going. Clever use of camera angles on some scenes. I know a good film when I see one and I am positive this is one. All in all an excellent film.

• Definitely NOT the next Italian Job - Great PR, very average film posted on 20 October 2008

  OK - firstly, why are all the 10* reviews from people with only one review? Secondly, to equate this to the Italian Job (Even the new version!) is a bloody insult.It is just a basic stick-up job with lots of shouting and screams at the beginning, some ludicrous device about how to get money out of a City of London bank (Sure banks have with some 70 million have no motion detectors...) in the middle, and an OK third part where it all goes wrong.It is just a mess, too chaotic; no or very little humour or charm, and after the first half-hour I had completely lost interest.It is seems from the ground up a Let's Make A Lads Film - even down to the obligatory brunette as hostage - and I just ended up feeling that the writers sat around a table and said "Well lads, what would guys like in this?" "Right, football (There isn't any), hardnuts, big haul of cash, mockney accents, and hard attitudes, stupid cops etc;" and originality be damned.If this is the best crime movie (It's not a heist movie - it's way too blatant to even get near that category) since the Italian Job - then we're all in the deepest poo...NOT recommended Watch it when it comes on Sky, which it will forever...

• A Crime Caper Hot On The Heels Of The Bank Job posted on 09 August 2008

  I would think that this film has been overshadowed probably due to The Bank Job being released only a couple of months previous. There's a bunch of familiar faces from films such as Lock Stock, Snatch, The Business etc and even a bloke from Eastenders. Your usual cockney lot.That being said the acting is spot on and the dialogue is funny. Gotta love low budget British films, there's a hell of a lot more of them recently and its a welcome change to the usual big budget yankee tosh.The characters are fun but believable, especially the young white kid really made me laugh. What made him so funny was the fact that I know kids just like him haha.The rest of the crims were your usual hard cases, jokers and sarcastic cockney types.Overall the storyline and dialogue was very well written and an enjoyable film throughout.I give it 8/10 to try and make up for whichever tosspot gave it such a crap rating. Bravo.

• A British heist movie posted on 08 July 2008

  A solid British heist film which tries to capture the tension of Dog Day Afternnon. Jeff Bell is good in the film as are the rest of the male cast. Good set-pieces - the tunnels sequences work very well. The bank job feels real enough. The film contains nice touches which take the audience in unexpected directions. It's good to see Barry from Eastenders doing something other than Extras. Not that many female characters, although the main woman is quite a babe.Good tight piece all around. The kind of film that doesn't normally get made in UK. Paris Leonti is clearly a director to keep an eye on.

• Gripping from the start.... posted on 08 May 2008

  A really great gritty movie with some great performances particularly from Vas Blackwood and Shaun Williamson.Top action-filled plot which has you clinging onto your seat at times! Mostly centred around the City of London so great if you know this area well. The script is tight yet immediately manages to make you familiar with each of the key characters. There's a great combination of action and comedy from the start with some pretty audacious stunts to boot.All in all a great low budget movie which manages to make you laugh and certainly kept me entertained throughout. I could definitely watch this again!

• highly recommended posted on 08 January 2008

  A most enjoyable film, with lots of action, moments of suspense interspersed with dry humour.Captivating stunts, great sound track and fast paced editing complete the effects.As the plot develops, the tension mounts and during the initial stages of the robbery, my pulse was really racing.The characters are believable and some actually likable, even generating sympathy as the robbery begins to go wrong.Overall, an excellent film that is highly recommended! Congratulations to Paris Leonti for squeezing so much entertainment from a low budget.

• One of the worst films ever made - overloading the f word!!! posted on 07 October 2008

  Forget, if you can, the fact that the 'f' word is used every other word (and then some) and that the writing is abysmal - well OK, you can't; it is that dreadful. The writers seem to have tried to make a film based on their 'ideas' of a bank robbery, it is heavily slanted in favour of the 'robbers' and the police are portrayed as soft (well this lot ARE dreadful) even helping the robbers along: Shaun Williamson's character (the Police CHIEF no less): "We want to help as much as we can" - puhlease!!! At the beginning of this mess (film) it takes ages for the sound of sirens after the alarm is raised; SO19 would have been there in the first few seconds of the alarm going off not fifteen minutes later!!! There is also a propensity for the robbers to tell their captives to take their clothes off, it is laughable and a sad excuse for a film. The warning they give out at the beginning of this movie 'This film contains bad language' should really say 'this film contains normal language' because there is so much foul language it is a total turn off, it is puerile rubbish from start to finish.The 'people' who wrote Daylight Robbery ought to be ashamed of this tripe, and I sincerely hope they are not allowed to present any more rubbish like this in the future.If you really want to see a bank robbery film watch the excellent 'The Bank Job' (2008) - a properly written, directed and acted film. No need bad language here, the writers are not lazy and actually have an imagination which does not include the 'f' word ALl the time.

• Liars or Idiots posted on 07 June 2008

  This is completely laughable. How can anyone rate this movie a 10? Oh. Wait a minute. If you're part of its PR push or the writer/director or the producer etc, I guess you'd have a very good reason to be giving this a ten. But people beware, this is an over-hyped, poorly written, terribly photographed piece of shouty garbage. The characters have zero development, zero humor, zero charm and zero impact. I saw another Brit film (The Bank Job) while I was in London and though I thought it was below average, I could at least watch it without crying into my popcorn. My British friends were more disappointed than I was and the director's claim that Guy Ritchie is an amateur goes to show what an absolutely talentless fool he really is. This movie looks cheap, the actors look nasty (except the girl), the cast acts loudly instead of convincingly. The whole thing is so disjointed that even the most ardent fans of Brit crime thrillers will hope that this director hangs up his megaphone immediately. Fans of Uwe Boll, may want to seek this out, but everyone else beware. If you see a rating higher than a 4, then it's been posted by either liars or idiots. Not so much an opinion, but a fact.

• The World's Dullest Bank Robbery posted on 22 June 2008

  It's a shame that on occasion people involved in the promotion of a film have so little confidence in the product that they feel compelled to create user accounts on IMDb so that they can write a single comment on each account that praises to the rafters what is never anything more than a below-average film. Of course, director Leonti did himself no favours by slating Guy Ritchie and his 'plastic gangsters' when this film was released. I'm not a big fan of Ritchie's gangster flicks either, but his efforts stand head and shoulders above Leonti's debut effort and it's pretty guileless to describe the characters of another's film as plastic when your own are little more than dead wood wrapped in skin.The story has a bunch of characters robbing a bank after checking in their baggage for a flight to an overseas world cup match, the plan being that they will rob the bank instead of enjoying a few beers in the bar and be back in the departure lounge in time for take off. Only one of these characters, a new father whose wife is fed up with him going to football matches, has any kind of back story, and the interplay between them is of such a dull and predictable nature that, not only do you learn nothing substantial about them, you really don't care what happens to them.A siege situation develops after the gang have reversed their van into the bank – injuring one of their own in the process – but they are unconcerned because they've constructed a tunnel long enough to take them beyond the area cordoned off by the police who are led by a character who is possibly supposed to provide some comic relief. Naturally, things don't go quite to plan, but you won't care. You really won't care. In fact you'll be surprised at how little you care.We don't even get to see their escape fall apart. Their fates are relayed via a news report about the sentences doled out and a few intertitles, meaning there is no satisfactory conclusion to it all.Kudos to Leonti, he's managed to get the finance for a movie, assemble a reasonably decent cast and get the thing distributed, and no doubt he's a hard-working individual who's passionate about his work. But you get the impression that all he has done here is knit together moments from all his favourite heist movies, which is why it all comes across as so disjointed. No doubt that cheap shot at Ritchie was purely for promotional purposes but, even had his film been superior to Ritchie's it would have been a dubious tactic, and the fact that his film falls far short of Ritchie's own debut just makes Leonti look like an opinionated fool.On a more positive note, Leonti's direction displays a high level of confidence for a relative novice and his enthusiasm for the subject is obvious. He also manages to draw some decent performances from a cast led by Geoff Bell, a character actor who is always watchable, and somehow manages to manufacture an upbeat feel to what is essentially a downbeat ending.

• Better spend money on Inside Man posted on 27 May 2008

  The plot is just a paraphrased copy of Inside Man, and a poor one at that. Nothing original whatsoever, which makes this movie a really dull one. The second they go in the back and start checking that floor you can predict how the story is going to develop. You already know there must be someone from bank staff helping these robbers. And sure enough he appears. Characters are not believable at all. Serious people planning a serious robbery do not take village idiots with them on the job. They also are smart enough to finish up fast without playing testosterone games. What killed me is the stupid ending. The newsman says that robbers were caught landing in Germany. In 2 hours? No one knew who these people were, faces were covered, they escaped and covered their tracks. Then all of a sudden they get caught in Germany? Apparently, the English police used its psychic powers and figured everything out in minutes and had time to warn most of Europe by sending out identifiable information...Sure. Why then did they look so puzzled walking out of the bank? And how exactly did they put in jail 6 people arrested in another country without any evidence and with a good alibi. To sum up, this film is inconsistent, unoriginal, poorly written piece of cinematic garbage. If you want to see a good movie, try the original version of this plot--the Inside Man.

• A good British movie that is worthy of several viewings. I am pleased posted on 05 May 2008

  A good British movie that is worthy of several viewings. I am pleased to see it has not gone the 'plastic gangster' route. Too many films go the way of the tough guy sharp talk style but this has become jaded and Daylight Robbery has managed to get the balance right.Some good performances from an ensemble cast, that includes the talented Johnny Harris, Geoff Bell and Vas Blackwood. It has tidy dialogue and sharp editing, with the story moving along at a good pace. The soundtrack works and is not too pretentious or overwhelming. This film will work as cinema or as home entertainment, but I would say, to get maximum effect and maximum enjoyment, try to catch it when it's released theatrically.

• Good from far but far from good posted on 27 April 2008

  Expected much more from the movie after the looking at the plot. Daylight Robbery is an epitome of a mediocre movie....The movie is watchable but do not expect anything from it.. Maybe the movie lacks flare and punch but on the whole it ain't as bad as others seem to have commented...it has a pretty good ending compared with the style the movie goes in. Too many unanswered questions arise as one is watching the movie.. The cast ain't a solid one, with no existence of a main role as such. With too many flaws in the planning and execution of the storyline , i highly doubt this movie will even make a decent run in the theaters.. So, finally think twice before buying this movie or else your expression would be like " hey, have i seen this one before"..Cheers lads.. Brit movies will always rock irrespective!!!! Therefore this movie gets a average but merciful 5.5-6 out of 10...

• Just Enjoy posted on 25 April 2008

  Firstly, as others have said, the premise is unconvincing, and this is most certainly NOT an Italian Job.That having been said, the film is an enjoyable British crime film, though not a Guy Ritchie bungling criminals caper at all - these characters are unpleasant, menacing and ruthless. The bungled start of the raid soon takes a dark twist.The actors are a collection of low budget cockneys - Del Synott and Shaun Parkes from Lock Stock (TV show), Vas (Rory Breaker) from Lock Stock (movie) and even Shaun Williamson from Eastenders (and an Extras victim).The scale and shape of the police operation is totally unrealistic, and Williamson does not have the presence to be the cop in charge. It all compares badly to Dog Day Afternoon, Inside Man, and The Bank Job.But never mind, I enjoyed it anyway, and the conclusion of the story, together with the manner in which it arrived, was unexpected (perhaps I was not concentrating).The opening of the final scene seems to be a nod to The Italian Job!