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An action-packed heist with a neat premise devolves into gratuitous competency porn. Both sides work hard to resolve their respective problems, by shouting out commands and bickering. No emotional core to speak of, the audience is left wondering who to root for, not because they're all compelling, but because they're not.

Very enjoyable. Solid heist movie with some plot twists and a very attractive and talented cast.

This is a solid action heist film that features the worst and most out of place final 10 minutes in movie history. I can only assume the studio said you have to get this to 90 mins and they had no choice.

The yellow filter, which is constantly used for Istanbul, is intended to fuel anti-Turkish sentiment and portray Turks as Arabs. Istanbul is not yellow; it is blue. Its sea and air are both clean and blue.

It starts out as the kind of urban thriller that hooks you right away: a World War II bomb found in the heart of London, mass evacuations, collective paranoia, and criminals taking advantage of the chaos. It almost feels like a mashup of a disaster movie and a stylish **** for the most part, it works VERY well. It knows how to build urban tension like few others, so the film creates a constant sense that everything could explode (literally) at any moment. You find yourself waiting for the inevitable disaster as the plot **** problem is precisely when it tries to get too big. The more the film delves into the conspiracy and tries to turn a relatively restrained thriller into something gigantic, the more it loses steam. It feels like that classic case of a script that confuses “more complex” with “more interesting.”In the end, it works best when it just lets London descend into chaos and embraces its paranoid urban thriller side.

It's fitting that this movie is about bombs because yeesh did this one ever hit the deck.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]