The Vault

Let me just start by saying I had no idea what this movie was other than what I was able to gather from the poster art.I have been playing catch up with Oscar nominees and wanted something other than those or Netflix movies, pulling up VUDU this was under the theater at home category, I check none of the theaters around me had this, figured it was not horribly expensive to rent ($6.99) took a chance on it. The most obvious grab from the poster is the title of the movie, a vault door, obviously we are looking at a heist film. It starts out in the ocean with a group diving to a shipwreck, was this the right movie? I exited and went back into the movie, yup it was the right movie. Turns out it was setting up what would be desirable enough to break into a vault for and that would be gold coins in a box that belong to Sir Francis Drake. The vault however is located beneath the Bank of Spain and has an elaborate security mechanism that will trap and kill anyone that tries to take anything out of the vault, that is where out main man Thom comes in aka Freddie Highmore, his character name is the only one I could remember the rest do not get much time given to developing their characters. Thom attends Cambridge and is an engineering wiz kid that is desirable to many different companies, but, decides to play bad boy for a change and take up the offer to go on this heist to figure out the vault security. The Vault is a beat for beat heist movie, it does try to shake things up a bit by letting more go wrong than typically does in a heist movie which created a bit of suspense tension. I just never felt that the stakes were that high to ever worry if they would be able to get their prize, I mean when one thing goes wrong the main man behind the heist is ready to just walk away until he sees one last opportunity, if it’s that important would you not give up that easy especially the effort already made. What is refreshing is seeing Freddie Highmore in a role that actually gives him the ability to flex his acting skills a little, this is his first R rated movie by the way, fun fact. For an evening in, there are certainly worse movies that I have taken a chance on renting from VUDU than this one. It’s a middle of the road movie, is it bad...no, is it good...not necessarily, is it entertaining under two hour...yes.