History Film / KingOfThieves

* KnownOnlyByTheirNickname: Brian gave Basil his nickname because his plummy accent reminded him of [[Series/TheBasilBrushShow Basil Brush]]. If Brian knows Basil's real name, he never mentions it, and the rest of the gang only know him as Basil.

* NoHonorAmongThieves: The cracks begin to show when Ken decides to use his brother-in-law Billy as fence without consulting the rest of the gang. However, things really fall apart when Terry, Danny and Kev decide to stiff Basil of his share of the take.

* ChekhovsGun: Brian comments on how distinctive Ken's car is when he is using it conduct surveillance on the safety deposit building. Guess what the police home in one when studying the CCTV footage from before the robbery?

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: PsychoPartyMember Terry is shown to be a devoted family man who takes his granddaughter to get ballet lessons.

* NoHonorAmongThieves: The cracks begins to show when Ken decides to use his brother-in-law Billy as fence without consulting the rest of the gang. However, things really fall apart when Terry, Danny and Kev decide to stiff Basil of his share of the take.

* {{Greed}}: What causes the wheels to come off the plan. Even during the heist, the various thieves are shown pocketing high end pieces of loot for themselves. However, things come to a head when Terry, Danny and Ken decide they can force Basil out of his share altogether. Basil does not take this lying down, nd things begin to unravel; ending with almost everyone in prison.

* PsychoPartyMember: Terry Jenkins is an old school London criminal with a hair trigger temper, who--at the drop of a hat--will decide someone is slighting him or trying to cheat him. His acts include [[ChairmanOfTheBrawl smashing a chair in the floor]] and using to threaten Basil out of his share of the loot, and dousing Carl in petrol and threatening to set him alight if he talks or makes any claim on the proceeds.

* EvenBadMenLoveThierMamas: Carl's major concern on being arrested is what is going to happen to his mother, who has Alzheimer's.

* PsychoPartyMember: Terry Jenkins is an old school London criminal with a hair trigger temper, who--at the drop of a hat--will decide someone is slighting him or trying to cheat. His acts include [[ChairmanOfTheBrawl smashing a chair in the floor]] and using to threaten Basil out of his share of the loot, and dousing Carl in petrol and threatening to set him alight if he talks or makes any claim on the proceeds.

* CriminalProcedural: About half the film details the gang's planning and execution of the heist. The second hald deals with the fallout.
* TheHeist: The film is a dramatization if the Hatton Garden safe deposit burglary: "largest burglary in English legal history."

A famous thief in his younger years, 77 year old widower Brian Reader pulls together a band of misfit criminals to plot an unprecedented burglary at the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit. The thieves, all in their 60s and 70s except for one, employ their old-school thieving skills to plan the heist over the Easter holiday weekend. Posing as servicemen, they enter the deposit, neutralise the alarms, and proceed to drill a hole into the wall of the safe. Two days later, they manage to escape with allegedly over £200 million worth of stolen jewels and money. When police are called to the scene and the investigation starts, the cracks between the misfit gang members begin to show as they row over how to share the goods and become increasingly distrustful of each other.

* ChekhovsGun: Brian comments on how distinctive Ken's car is when he is using it conduct surveillance on the safety deposit building. Guess what the police home in one when studying the CCTV footage from before the robbery.

* ScrewThisImOuutaHere: Carl gets cold feet after Brian walks away. When Terry tells him to decide if he is in or out, Carl decides he is out and runs away.

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